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...

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 🧵