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

Awesome-Nano-Banana🍌-images They have collected stunning images and prompts generated by Nano-banana in various task scenarios, comprehensively showcasing Google's unlimited possibilities in image generation and editing. github.com/PicoTrex/Awe...

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

Lucile Favero, Juan-Antonio P\'erez-Ortiz, Tanja K\"aser, Nuria Oliver: Do AI tutors empower or enslave learners? Toward a critical use of AI in education https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06878 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.06878

The promise of mastery-based testing for promoting student engagement, self-regulated learning, and performance in STEM courses www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Used OLI platform chemistry course oli.cmu.edu/courses/gene... Repeating tests linked to increase in use of study resources & grades

vibes.diy is a free & #OpenSource tool that lets you or your students or kids generate shareable/remixable web apps in seconds. Example pomodoro timer app slow-flamingo-4228.vibesdiy.app Bias buster app unhappy-fly-3636.vibesdiy.app More info fireproof.storage/posts/introd... #EdTech #EduSky #AIEd

What did 'that MIT study' really find? 💡In this post, I go behind the viral clickbait to explore what the MIT research led by Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D actually says about #AI, cognitive debt, and #learning - and why the “Brain-to-LLM” approach might be one of the most important ideas for educators

Testing out a #deepresearch tool on the topic of: Research-Based #teaching Techniques for Improving Student Retention in Online Courses https://www.opendeepresearch.dev/chat/OSVutEomBXzjwqpga5oNA Here are also links to NotebookLM summaries and a podcast version […]

The Benefits of Anti-Models for Boosting Learning www.edutopia.org/article/powe... #EDU #teachers

Building Students’ Confidence and Learning Skills in Online Classes: Lessons from the Postsecondary Collaborative (slides and paper) ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/presentation... #OnlineLearning #OnlineTeaching #EdDev #StudentSuccess #HigherEd

The inability to measure and publish data on college outcomes weakens the U.S' global competitiveness, potentially triggering a decline in the very qualities that have made American higher education the envy of the world. New op-ed from me @hechingerreport.org. hechingerreport.org/opinion-clam...

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol

My essay for The Teaching Professor, "How Students Fool Themselves," now freely available on ResearchGate www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Watch @anselm.io talk about how local-first is accidentally perfect for the AI age. youtu.be/e3-yIWGNBLQ?...

Launching two new applications today that extend @smokesignal.events with digital badges and signed record capabilities in the ATProtocol ecosystem. Both are open source and built on our new atproto-* Rust crates.

European Open Source AI Index osai-index.eu An EU-based community-driven public resource on #OpenSource generative #AI systems. Supersedes opening-up-chatgpt.github.io OLMo by @ai2.bsky.social is still the most open #LLM: allenai.org/olmo #EdTech #AIEd

Students Don't Learn the Way They Think They Do in a Large, #ActiveLearning Genetics Course www.lifescied.org/doi/full/10.... "students exhibited larger learning gains from prediction activities compared w/worked examples or tell-then-practice activities, as evidenced by a course pretest/posttest"

Student Success | Report: Best Practices in ‘Nudging’ for Student Success A review of research on behavioral interventions finds opportunities for reducing complexities and creating systemic solutions for student success. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kdOaze

Exploring the Relationship Between First-Year Seminars and #StudentSuccess Outcomes - Christine Harrington journals.flvc.org/jpss/article... See also her #FYE resources: www.scholarlyteaching.org/fye I have some more resources at the bottom of this site: canvas.instructure.com/courses/3168...

Generative AI has been very toxic for the student-teacher relationship and we're all trying to figure it out. But the answer to a frayed social contract isn't to add to it. AI detectors don't work and they make things worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/s...

Help-seeking is a skill we can teach our students. Some resources: canvas.instructure.com/courses/3168... #StudentSuccess #EdDev

Passing TPACK through the Meta-science circle: A Meta-analytic Systematic Review of the application of the Model: https://osf.io/c5qsr

Just published in Frontiers in Communication: "Communicating academic honesty.” We studied how faculty talk to students about GenAI use and what it reveals about trust, integrity, and AI literacy in higher ed. Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... #AIinED #edusky #AIliteracy

The Student Experience Project (SEP) Resource Hub draws on social belonging and learning mindset research to develop practical approaches campuses can use to bolster student engagement, increase equity in academic outcomes, and support student success. studentexperienceproject.org/resources/ #EdDev

Announcing the Local-First Landscape A comprehensive guide to help developers choose the right tools for building local-first applications. localfirst.fm/landscape

"We found that AI-generated content predominantly promotes teacher-centered classrooms with limited opportunities for student choice, goal-setting, and meaningful dialogue." Pedagogical Biases in AI-Powered Educational Tools: The Case of Lesson Plan Generators osf.io/preprints/os...

1/3rd of #CommunityCollege students report experiencing food insecurity, and they are 42% less likely to graduate. SNAP eligibility requirements exclude many students. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Swipe Out Hunger is working to end college student hunger swipehunger.org #FoodSecurity

If you're looking for physics faculty resources, check out PhysPort! The resources are based on physics education research (PER) to help support teaching. Supported by AAPT and funded by the National Science Foundation ow.ly/AlCj50MTKB3 #Physicseducation #Physicsteachers #Physics #ITeachPhysics

Great, nuanced piece that identifies conditions where LLMs impede learning v. facilitate it. They impede when they eliminate productive struggle and/or impede mastery of a domain. They are helpful when learners already possess knowledge and self-regulation skills. Kudos Rus & @kendeou.bsky.social !