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...

Tried out Gemini 3 for real classroom tasks. Two were fine. One was jaw-dropping. Think time-stamped video feedback grounded in YOUR rubric. Full blog post here: open.substack.com/pub/davidpbl... #Education #GenerativeAI #ProjectBasedLearning #Gemini3 #EdTech #PBL #formativeassessment #assessment

Universities 'refusing to use AI checkers' are a light in the darkness for me, as it means that FOR ONCE they want to actually tackle a problem, not throw money at a flawed solution because it means they can get it off their list & stop thinking about it.

Consider the reasons why student may be driven to submit AI generated assessment: Are they overburdened with content? Do we explicitly describe the value in the development of the skills? Is the assessment aligned to the learning outcomes? Is this made apparent to the students? #AcademicSky #EduSky

Ludovic Petitdemange, Salom\'e Nashed: Enabling Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals to Pursue Careers in Science https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17620 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.17620 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.17620

The Case for AI as Accommodation (opinion) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/… #AI #education #accessibility

Researchers call for more conversation-rich learning as AI spreads via @physorg_ @cambridge phys.org/news/2025-11... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #conversationalAI #socraticmethod

The Role of Prior Knowledge in Effects of Embodied Pedagogies on Learning: https://osf.io/qyjp9

This is a cool paper showing that first-gen college students don't realize a lot of unwritten rules that lead to success (the value of internships, student clubs, letters from professors). But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...

My essay for The Teaching Professor, "How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning" now freely available at ResearchGate www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Student Success | How Academic Setbacks Impede First-Generation Completion A recent study finds students who are the first in their family to attend college are more likely to drop out after receiving a negative grade. https://bit.ly/4oTFZKd #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Adult learners are reshaping higher education. Learn what the science says about cognitive ageing, effective interventions and how to build age-inclusive classrooms: https://ow.ly/3VBZ50XnbGi #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

AI Literacy Across the Curriculum edtechdev.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/a... Mastering #AILiteracy or indeed any literacy is not something that can be done in a single lesson or module, but is better distributed throughout students’ education (like Writing Across the Curriculum) #AIEd #EdDev #EdTech

Faculty Development and GenAI Playbook: Evidence-based Best Practices www.everylearnereverywhere.org/resources/fa... #EdDev #AIEd

New post on Humanist! I was excited to read Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger's “Opposite of Cheating,” and the writing is a pleasure. Yes, plagiarism is rampant, but …

A few recent open ebooks: * Inclusive Teaching Online open.oregonstate.education/teachingonli... * Advancing Accessibility edtechbooks.org/accessibility * #AILiteracy for College Success pressbooks.montgomerycollege.edu/ailit/ * Learning With AI leeds.pressbooks.pub/learningwith... #EdDev #AIEd

"Increasingly, AI chatbots are unwilling to acknowledge that they do not know the answer to a question. Instead, they make stuff up. A September report from NewsGuard, which monitors online misinformation, found that “non-response rates fell from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025.”"

GLAT: The generative AI literacy assessment test www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... & www.glat.ai/GLAT Presentation by co-author youtu.be/2sNTxu33Xw4?... More about #AILiteracy theconversation.com/ai-literacy-... #AIEd #EdTech

An AI chatbot’s feedback style can alter your brain activity during learning

Cool demo by @todepond.com of a classroom agent in @tldraw.com youtu.be/L-fKtZXDb-s?... Jump to the 10 minute mark to see an example of AI giving guidance to a student working on a math problem on the tldraw digital canvas. Uses the agent starter kit tldraw.dev/starter-kits... #AIEd #EdTech

Noah D. Finkelstein: A principled way to think about AI in education: guidance for action based on goals, models of human learning, and use of technologies https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01467 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01467 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.01467

Notes and system instructions and deep research reports on creating a custom GPT or Gemini Gem to tutor calculus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p2aeeVmstAASRUsgH52NLDmhghrhhsab2pvmyevnuYI/edit?usp=sharing Hawkulus: AI Calculus Tutor (Custom GPT) […]

It should be obvious a priori that it's absurd to judge colleges by the number of applicants they manage to avoid admitting. Quality ≠ selectivity! Now there's evidence demonstrating the absence of an empirical relationship between intellectual engagement and a school's selectivity: is.gd/itHRhu

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

Asset-based Approaches to Student Success edtechdev.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/a... Strategies for moving from deficit thinking (focusing on what students lack) to asset-based approaches (aka strengths-based approaches). #EdDev #HigherEd #Teaching #EdReform

Teaching Tips: The First Major Exam or Assignment edtechdev.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/f... Some research-based practices you may find useful for before, during, and after your first major assessment to improve student success and help struggling students turn things around afterward. #EdDev #Teaching

6 ways to use NotebookLM to master any subject https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-student-features/ (new features) #AI #NotebookLM

Opinion: Without specific classes, students may leave college still unable to separate science from nonsense, says Natalia Pasternak #AcademicSky #EduSky

If any LLM devs want to skip ahead of the class, check out How People Learn nap.nationalacademies.org/read/9853/ch... or Teach Students How to Learn youtu.be/yGBfd7LeGMM?... Another Metacognitive AI strategy: confidence self-assessments arxiv.org/abs/2508.152... #LearningSciences

Teaching students how to learn changes more than effort—it changes the pattern of their learning. A brief SRL intervention made study habits more regular & organized all semester, boosting grades. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it. Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...

Advancements in astronomy education research: Two decades of progress with undergraduate and adult learners journals.aps.org/prper/abstra... #Astronomy #PhysicsEd #STEMeducation #DBER #EdDev #ActiveLearning #Teaching

A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.

Grading student writing with AI: What we lose when AI replaces teachers #AIEdu #AIinEdu #EdChat #EdReform #EduSky www.eschoolnews.com/...

Meta-analysis on promoting information problem solving competence, which "is commonly defined as the integrated knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable individuals to search for, assess, and use online information to solve problems and construct knowledge." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

How Adding Metacognitive Requirements in Support of AI Feedback in Practice Exams Transforms Student Learning Behaviors | Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3698205.3729542 #AI #education

Today was #ScratchConference - a chance to learn from the incredible creativity of the #Scratch community 😍 I was lucky enough to be invited to talk about the work I've been doing this year with schools using Generative AI in Scratch - a short version of my demo from dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=5538

Strong claim: "AI evaluation removes human bias in teaching assessment" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Ironically, I asked AI to evaluate this claim. Gemini: this is an overstatement docs.google.com/document/d/1... ChatGPT: misleading drive.google.com/file/d/1p_69... #AIEd #EdDev #Teaching

“The Ones that Care Make all the Difference”: Perspectives on Student-Faculty Relationships link.springer.com/article/10.1... "4 themes for faculty practices: (1) Creating Pedagogical Space, (2) Being Inclusive and Aware, (3) Being Engaged and Engaging Students, (4) Doing More Than Teaching." #EdDev

Recent #AIEd resources: * AI & ID research drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/beyond-the... * 6 apps in a day aieternaut.substack.com/p/claudes-ai... * AI wrapper w/google forms readysetcompute.com/gptwrapper/ * Course Review GPT onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights... * onmicro.ai & cogniti.ai

If you're exploring critical reflection on AI feedback, we hope you'll take a look at our Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) approach. Input welcome! All OER. Webinar recording: pairr.short.gy/webinar Slides: pairr.short.gy/slides Materials packet including prompts: pairr.short.gy/packet

I created free templates that you can use to collect your favorite facilitation techniques! This can make it easier to plan workshops, as you’ll already have a curated list of strategies to choose from. www.linkedin.com/posts/tolu-n... #HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev #AcademicSky #EduSky #Facilitation

Professors at Play professorsatplay.org has 3 free #ebooks on incorporating games into your 1) #Teaching professorsatplay.org/playbook/ 2) #OnlineTeaching professorsatplay.org/professors-a... and 3) and #AI ideas professorsatplay.org/ai-playbook/ #EdDev #EdTech #AIEd