The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusion of Learning arxiv.org/abs/2606.26181 "an unguarded AI helper left students about 17% worse on an unaided exam, while the same model rebuilt to withhold answers erased the harm, and a well-engineered tutor roughly doubled learning" #AIEd

Learning physics can derail some students: New research shows the best way to keep them on track phys.org/news/2026-05... Summary of: Relative benefits of different active learning methods to conceptual physics learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PhysicsEd #STEMeducation #Teaching

Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.

Unleashing Kid Wizards: AI storytellers, Emerging Entrepreneurs, and Jedi Builders stefanbauschard.substack.com/p/unleashing-k… #AI #education

Single-Session Interventions for Mental Health Problems: Umbrella Review www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Recent example: using new online mental health tool just once boosts teenagers' hope and emotional well-being medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04... Tool: unlockwellbeing.org.uk #MentalHealth

We release open models so they're available to builders working on problems that matter to them. On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, PointCheck is a fitting example. → Read more: buff.ly/pkBXrhw

The best defense against AI misuse is not better detection but better conditions for learning via @insidehighered www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #plagiarism #cheating

Why AI literacy must be discipline specific via @timeshighered www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-a... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #AIliteracy

In addition to expecting more phishing/hacking attacks in the future, #CanvasLMS schools should expect the cost of the LMS to jump sharply, now that Instructure paid the ransom and are being sued by dozens of schools: www.pcmag.com/news/canvas-... & are owned by private equity (KKR)

I'd recommend faculty backup their #CanvasLMS gradebook community.instructure.com/en/kb/articl... & export student submissions for assignments not yet graded community.instructure.com/en/kb/articl... Be prepared for an increased amount of phishing emails in the future: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

Examples of self-reported measures not correlated w/more objective measures * #AILiteracy arxiv.org/abs/2601.06101 * #ProfDev academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... * #AI offloading www.goedel.io/p/the-machin... * #Teaching www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... * #Learning link.springer.com/article/10.1... #EdDev

Vibe-Coding a MultiLingual #Free #Whiteboard: #DrawSplat I read an article the other day. School districts are saving thousands of dollars (hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases) vibe-coding their own educational technology solutions. As a technology director, what solutions might have I…

Designing a mobile chatbot-based learning journaling system for intrinsic motivation and engagement link.springer.com/article/10.1... #AIEd #Education #EdTech

How Cognitive Offloading AI Research Gets Broken Before It Even Reaches You tinaaustin.substack.com/p/how-cognitiv… #AI #research #correction #education

The Long Push To Blame Systemic Problems On Individuals www.sciencefriday.com/articles/its...

Equitable Group Work in Undergraduate Biology Courses: Leveraging a Complex Instruction Framework to Identify Pedagogical Strategies www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/... #Teaching #EdDev #STEMeducation

The DOJ has delayed its accessibility deadline (April 24) by 1 year (2027): www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... The free PAVE tool for fixing PDF accessibility has been upgraded to 2.0: pave-pdf.org Open weight AI PDF OCR models are improving: huggingface.co/spaces?categ... #accessibility #a11y

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part III www.popularbydesign.org/p/academics-ne… (many good ideas) #AI #research #academics #socialSciences #education

SafeTutors: Benchmarking Pedagogical Safety in AI Tutoring Systems arxiv.org/abs/2603.17373 "risk is answer over-disclosure, misconception reinforcement, and the abdication of scaffolding" "multi-turn dialogue worsens behavior, with pedagogical failures rising from 17.7% to 77.8%." #AIEd #EdTech

ISD-Agent-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-based Instructional Design Agents arxiv.org/abs/2602.10620 Code & data: github.com/codingchild2... Also: Pedagogy-R1: Pedagogical Reasoning Model and Educational Benchmark dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #AIEd #LearningDesign #EdTech

Agentic Workflows in Education arxiv.org/abs/2504.200... Examples: * DeepTutor github.com/HKUDS/DeepTu... * OpenMAIC github.com/THU-MAIC/Ope... * liacript github.com/LiaScript/te... * Claude skills github.com/GarethMannin... github.com/narosemena/m... * Claw-ED github.com/SirhanMacx/C... #AIEd

"AI petting zoo" resources for instructors: liascript.github.io/course/?http... #EdTech #AIEd #EdDev

How to make friends: Scientists have uncovered some intriguing new details

Updated Hardware Recommendations for Running AI Locally (March 2026) Update to: DIY #AI: Running Powerful Models Locally to Save Money and Protect Privacy. This is an AI-powered update to my original post. Do you agree with the recommendations? A lot has changed since my July 2025 TCEA AI for…

Effective #teaching is difficult, counter-intuitive, & not something you can master from the Internet. So it's not surprising that AI is pretty bad at it & bad at evaluating it: arxiv.org/abs/2603.00883 Podcast summary: drive.google.com/file/d/1n09D... More: mastodon.social/@dougholton/... #AIEd

Models are now expert math solvers, and so AI for math education is receiving increasing attention. Our new preprint evaluates 11 VLMs on our QA benchmark, DrawEduMath. We highlight a startling gap: models perform less well on inputs from K-12 students who need more help. 🧵

I enjoyed talking with @kensycoop.bsky.social on the Many Minds podcast about the metaphors we use to conceptualize AI. manyminds.libsyn.com/seven-metaph...

I whipped up another learning related Skill! Smaller than Learning Opportunities, but very complementary: interactive guidance through a quick research-backed psychological intervention that helps improve learning plans, motivation and commitment

 github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

Opinion | The Case for Centers for Teaching and Learning The work of CTLs is central to higher education. https://bit.ly/4qZO3de #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

LLMs getting much better at pushing back against bullshit prompts. “Green means the model clearly called out the nonsense. Amber means partial challenge. Red means the model let nonsense pass” github.com/petergpt/bul...

AI-assisted learning stumbles on the evidence via @educationgadfly fordhaminstitute.org/national/com... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #edresearch #fordhaminstitute

Summary of efforts to reform how college teaching is evaluated engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/a-practica... See TEval for some best practices: teval.net But also these references on bias in student evaluations of teaching: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #EdDev #Teaching #HigherEd

Opinion: Test results reveal a deeper issue in math – and it's not the math itself

Career Advice | Bringing Staff Expertise Out of the Shadows Universities are set up to recognize classification, not contribution—rendering the intellectual contributions of academic staff largely invisible. https://bit.ly/4qaxtaa #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

The logbook is the nexus of my pedagogy and practice as a writing teacher and that is why I love it.

The Learning Loop #6: Real-Time Feedback Strategies In This Issue: Stop lecturing at your students and start learning with them. Transitioning to active learning can be daunting, but this issue provides the exact toolkit you need to make it seamless. Check out these robust, low-cost alternatives…

Google Gemini can now create interactive diagrams and simulations that students explore, not just read. Here’s my practical guide.https://open.substack.com/pub/davidpblross/p/how-teachers-can-use-google-gemini Tags: #EdTech #AIinEducation #K12 #Teaching #GoogleGemini #InteractiveLearning

Career Advice | How AI Is Exploding Our Illusions of Rigor Craig E. Nelson’s concept of “dysfunctional illusions of rigor” holds new currency in our AI age. https://bit.ly/3YH9GDm #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Evaluating Racial Bias in LLM Reasoning: Implications for Equitable AI Use in Education: https://osf.io/ynt3h

Career Advice Reminder | Ask Your Students Why They Use AI The answer may surprise you. https://bit.ly/4pewXqU #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

As grocery prices continue to rise, many college students are turning to their campus food pantry to help make ends meet. n.pr/4pkenxQ

How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking https://www.ted.com/talks/advait_sarkar_how_to_stop_ai_from_killing_your_critical_thinking #aied

Multiple articles have reported allegedly alarmingly low levels of #math prep of students at @ucsandiego.bsky.social (buff.ly/L5TlNL3 ). We need to know how this is being measured because research has shown that traditional techniques have made many errors (buff.ly/9YyhCvW). #AcademicSky #highered

Ibukunoluwa Bukola, Meagan Sundstrom, Justin Gambrell, Colin Green, Adrienne L. Traxler, Eric Brewe: Measuring fidelity of implementation of named active learning methods in physics https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17699 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17699 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17699

💎 70 Gems! www.edugems.ai There's now a total of 70 Gemini Gems on my EduGems site covering: 💡 Curriculum & Lesson Design 📖 Literacy & Language 🧒 Student Activities 💯 Assessment 🔑 Support 💼 Professional Tasks Use, copy & share for free! #EduSky #EduSkyAI #EdTech #GoogleEDU

I'm exhausted of pieces that bemoan the state of accommodations in #HigherEd, which thoughtful ppl then devote precious time debunking. I'm grateful that there is a cadre of folks willing to do the labor represented in this piece, but can we just please STOP?! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

A Scalable, Theory-Based Intervention to Influence Teachers' Student Engagement Practices Improves Academic Performance in a State-Wide Sample www.researchgate.net/publication/... More about FUSE (Fellowship Using the Science of Engagement): fuse.prc.utexas.edu #EdDev #EdPsy #Teaching

The Hidden Curriculum of AI Syllabus Statements: How Fear-Based Framing Shapes Student Behaviour and Academic Integrity academicintegrity.org/aws/ICAI/pt/sh… #AI #education

Give students purpose, belief and support, and they’ll drive their own learning. Brett Jones shares how to make it happen: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/motivating-students-isnt-magic-its-music #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

New in The Important Work, Maggie Boyd writes about working with colleagues to create a tool to help students think about the choice to use AI and shares her experience using the tool to help Writing Center tutors talk to students about AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/pause-befo...