Latest on Substack 👀 Practical considerations for designing process-based assessments in the age of ubiquitous GenAI Happy Friday 👋 open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

If I was asked to offer one practical recommendation for academic colleagues in terms of assessment design in the age of Generative AI, I would suggest looking at what element(s) of their assessment(s) could they modify to include an element of process-based assessment... #GenAI #AIEd

Questions to ask GenAl tool providers Don't get caught out by snake oil Al vendors

Enjoyed the first issue of this theatlasnewspaper.org

Updates on my experiments are on Substack 👀 substack.com/@jonathanmja...

Has anyone tried the idea of including visible GenAI instructions in assessment briefs so that if students want to upload the brief to a chatbot, it’ll be guided by certain pedagogically beneficial instructions? [1/5]

Hidden and False Affordances of Generative AI An example of a false affordance might be asking it to format your references in Harvard style based on incomplete information. It “completes” the task, but hallucinates the missing information instead of retrieving it. acuras.co.uk/hidden-and-f...

I seem to be getting a reputation at my university 😝 #AI

Spent a day marking and I’m still on the students with names beginning with “A” 🥲 #AcademicSky

Recent Digital Education Community of Practice (DECoP) webinar: Higher Order Prompting and AI I explored how large language models (LLMs) relate to teaching and learning, with a particular focus on Bloom’s taxonomy. Writeup here: www.qmul.ac.uk/digital-educ...

Ask an LLM chatbot “give me a random number between 1-10”. You’ll probably get “7”. This is a false affordance. It’s not actually doing what it appears to be doing. Then ask the same chatbot to “programmatically generate a random number between 1-10”. Behave differently?

Enjoying Substack so far… Come say hi? open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Questioning the inevitability of Generative AI and interrogating its true impact (environmental, psychological, educational) are questions that belong in today’s curriculum whether that’s in school, further education, or higher education. #genAI #education

What examples of GenAI false affordances have you come across recently? (stuff it says it does but actually doesn’t)

New post on Substack 👀 Discursive Al labelling as a first step toward structural assessment redesign in higher education #AcademicSky #GenAI

I was at the Royal Society in London yesterday talking with university leaders about AI. More to follow… 😊

EY retracts study after researchers discover AI hallucinations (gift link) #GenAI

Slick Messaging: What Big Oil’s Playbook Tells Us About Big AI #GenAI #AILiteracy open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Late night drafting… #AcademicSky

I’m over on Substack trying it out if anyone wants to connect. #academicSky #AIEd #GenAI #HigherEducation #AI

I’ve been thinking about the affordances of GenAI… There are hidden affordances, where it has capabilities not immediately apparent. Also false affordances, where it seems to be usable for a certain thing, it says it does the thing, but actually hasn’t done the thing, hallucinating the thing.

Written by Marvin Minsky in 1983…

Very happy to share a new paper with @iamjonjackson.bsky.social, Chris White, and Adrian Bevan on designing our new #AppliedAI degree with insights from our #DataScience apprenticeship. If you work with applied #AI and would like to know more, I’d be glad to hear from you! doi.org/10.1108/HESW...

Pattie Maes wrote this piece about intelligent software back in 1995. A great time capsule of a piece. Discovered as part of the curated articles included in the 2016 Penguin Publishing Group version of True Names by Vernor Vinge. (links below)

Really excited to be working on a sub-section of the upcoming IEEE Guide for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education Our team is focusing on "Personalized, Adaptive, and Collaborative Learning" within engineering education.

Great to hear from @chieadachi.bsky.social about the Centre for Excellence in AI in Education, and from @iamjonjackson.bsky.social about #GenerativeAI to help students reflect. We had a really productive discussion about the role of AI in #assessment - let me know if you've seen any good examples!

Degree apprentices have an important voice in the GenAI / Higher Education discourse. We should amplify their voice. With two student co-authors, I have just published a short preprint showcasing their perspectives. #GenAI #AIEd #HigherEducation osf.io/preprints/ed...

My first paper to receive 10 citations 🤩 scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... #AcademicSky

@emilymbender.bsky.social good to see you on The Ghost in the Machine Emily. Tough but important watch.

TED talk from @carissaveliz.bsky.social just dropped 👀 “Beware the power of prediction” Thank you Carissa. #AcademicSky #AI www.ted.com/talks/cariss...

Recent #AIEd reading Roe, J. and Perkins, M. (2025) “Generative AI in Self-Directed Learning: a thematic scoping review,” Interactive Learning Environments, pp. 1–12. Available at: doi.org/10.1080/1049....

Thank you to Association for Learning Development in Higher Education for having me as a guest speaker to their ALDinHE AI community of practice webinar today to talk about the “Higher Order Prompting” toolkit which builds on my paper from Jan 2025 (ref below)…

It's official. GitHub Copilot eats your code 😂

www.linkedin.com/posts/iamjon... discovered via @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

How the young use AI matters more than for how long. @economist.com gift link economist.com/by-invitatio... #GenAI #AIEd

Very happy to have been in attendance at the Night of Science and Engineering last week representing degree apprenticeships at @qmul.bsky.social

Meta, Google lose US case over social media harm to kids - www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The AI cheating question dividing universities. [gift link] #GenAI @russellgroup.bsky.social

Recent reading 📖 Kahn, P. et al. (2025) “Teacher agency and generative artificial intelligence: teaching in higher education as a responsive, cultural activity,” Learning, Media and Technology, pp. 1–12. Available at: doi.org/10.1080/1743.... #GenAI #AIEd

Recent reading 📖 Zapata, G.C. (2026) “The Role of Linguists in Understanding and Shaping Generative AI in Education,” Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal [Preprint]. Available at: doi.org/10.18848/183.... #GenAI #AIEd

Recent reading 📖 Perkins, D. (2003) “MAKING THINKING VISIBLE.” pz.harvard.edu/sites/defaul... #academicSky

I love posts like these because it provides a moment of clarity for me as to why I’m in education… #GenAI #Grammarly

#DigiTechFest26 at @qmul.bsky.social today was a success 🎉 Our degree apprentices enjoyed an eclectic mix of guest speakers, an alumni panel, apprentice video showcase, and apprentice talks. Some highlights: - Contemporary cyber threats - Small AI - The epistemology of digital technologies

AI is helping expand the frontier of theoretical physics (gift link) @economist.com

An uncomfortable truce in the AI platform wars #GenAI #AI #AgenticAI

My prompt engineering strategy is to just ask "sure?" over and over again. /jk

I can get on board with “human skills”. I also like this quote: “The discomfort of not having an instant response is where empathy actually lives. AI has been designed to eliminate that discomfort. Which means it has been designed to eliminate the conditions under which empathy develops.”

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What a time to be alive. Hello ads 👋 #OpenAI #GenAI