Yes we could prompt prompt prompt prompt prompt prompt prompt… or we could go read a book seriously… go read a book

All very intellectually stimulating but… #GenAI #AI #ML #LLMs

Looking forward to welcoming 100+ new degree apprentices to @qmul.bsky.social tomorrow at London City Institute of Technology 🙌 Tube strikes allowing 🫠 (In the spirit of adaptability, we’ll be running everything hybrid for those that cannot get in)

Recent publication from @unesco.org Includes a piece by the inimitable @emilymbender.bsky.social AI and the future of education. Disruptions, dilemmas and directions www.unesco.org/en/articles/... #AIEd

Questions to ask your (Gen)AI tool provider A first draft 👀 #GenAI

The Fever Dream of Imminent ‘Superintelligence’ Is Finally Breaking By @garymarcus.bsky.social via @nytimes.com #GenAI #AGI #LLMs Gift link 👇

New post on the QM Academy Centre for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence in Education blog. The Role of Generative AI in Education: Questions, Reflections, and Provocations #academicSky #GenAI #AIEd

For my last lecture of this trip, I loved exploring the search for #LifeInSpace with the wonderful sailors aboard #ScarletLady. Where do you think is the most promising place to search for life beyond Earth? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrxX...

betterimagesofai.org/images No need to generate AI slop imagery when there is much better imagery to use when writing about AI #GenAI

“The ‘open-source AI’ debate has been substantially constructed by AI companies, who have used claims around openness to serve their particular regulatory and market aims.” #AI #GenAI #OpenAI

Yeh those open source OpenAI models aren’t really open source 😬

My kind of article: tech meets literature 👌 An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet

I was recently interviewed for the @qmul.bsky.social Technology Enhanced Learning Team magazine. And yes I mentioned SpongeBob SquarePants 🙌 www.qmul.ac.uk/technology-e... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Good read from @marycurnockcook.bsky.social Some highlights below 👇 #GenAI #AIEd

I thought this was going to be more scathing than it turned out to be 😊 Tight, M. (2024) ‘Reflection: an assessment and critique of a pervasive trend in higher education’, European Journal of Higher Education, 14(2), pp. 324–342. Available at: doi.org/10.1080/2156.... #academicSky

More recent reading 📘 Tan, A., Dorneich, M.C. and Cotos, E. (2025) ‘Aligning Pedagogy with Generative AI: An Approach to Customizing Educational GPTs’, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, p. 10711813251358778. Available at: doi.org/10.1177/1071.... #AcademicSky

Recent reading 📘 Menary, R. (2007) ‘Writing as thinking’, Language Sciences, 29(5), pp. 621–632. Available at: doi.org/10.1016/j.la.... Highly relevant in the age of #GenAI

Fighting the tech-centric glorification of Generative AI acuras.co.uk/large-langua... #GenAI

Because LLMs “make stuff up” and aren’t actually drawing on any ground truth, they cannot be relied upon as sources of knowledge, but they can be really useful if “making stuff up” is exactly what you want. #AIeducation #AIEd #EduSky

“Learning technology is different from pure technology. Learning technology must be human-centered because it involves teaching and interacting with people. Therefore, smart learning environments must not only focus on performance; human feelings and outcomes should be the main concern.” #AIEd

ChatGPT is just one big dark pattern

It is vital for educators to test GenAI tools within specific contexts before advocating their use to students, particularly because the impact will be on students’ learning and cognitive development rather than the arguably more mundane measure of worker productivity. #AIinEducation #AIEdu #GenAI

Despite certain claims of LLMs being able to “reason” and “think” they are – and will always be – fundamentally different to humans, regardless of how much anthropomorphising language and functionality is deployed. #AIinEducation #AIEdu #GenAI #LLMs

“AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?” on the @economist.com Gift link 👇 economist.com/business/202... #GenAI

Well this just dropped… Thoughts? www.turnitin.com/press/turnit... #AIinEducation #GenAI #AcademicSky

Excellent read 👌 Corbin, T., Dawson, P. and Liu, D. (2025) ‘Talk is cheap: why structural assessment changes are needed for a time of GenAI’, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Routledge [Online]. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #GenAI #academicsky #AIEdu

We’re hiring ☺️ @qmul.bsky.social #AcademicSky

“AI” has become meaningless. As a term, it obsfucates. We need language that disambiguates. Corporations will rarely help with this. Education should be all about this.

Estonia Debuts AI Chatbots for High School Classrooms spectrum.ieee.org/estonia-ai-l... @spectrum.ieee.org #GenAI #LLMs

"GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. Despite all the techno-utopian promises, our brains see it as ersatz." culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...

Thoughts are being thunked and words are being writ ✏️ The Role of Generative Al in Education: Questions, Reflections, and Provocations Coming soon (hopefully) somewhere (probably) #academicSky #GenAI #AIEd

Weekend fiction by J. G. Ballard ❤️ The Crystal World

If you needed a reason, this is probably a good reason 👇 PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now #GenAI #Privacy #AIEthics

From the archives 👇 Jackson, J. et al. (2024) ‘The power of external stakeholders to enhance social and emotional learning in Higher Education’, The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 10(2). Coauthored with several students ❤️

Happy open day! @ QMUL

Poster boy (of sorts) #AcademicSky

My short conference paper just dropped on IEEE Xplore 🎉 “Who's Doing the Thinking Here?”: A Pedagogy-First Approach to Integrating Large Language Models in Higher Education @ieeexplore.bsky.social doi.org/10.1109/EDUC... #LLMs #GenAI

@anavaldi.bsky.social lovely to connect with you on Wednesday at @qmul.ac.uk Ana. I’ll drop you my email address if you’re happy to keep in touch.

Excited to be attending this conference today at @qmul.ac.uk: Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier Looking forward to @katecrawford.bsky.social’s keynote. #PhilAI #AIEthics www.qmul.ac.uk/ihss/whats-o...

Sunshine! ☀️ It’s beautiful here in Oxfordshire. What’s it like where you are in the world?

It was a pleasure to present my short paper at IEEE #EDUCON last week, hosted at @qmul.ac.uk "Who's Doing the Thinking Here?": A Pedagogy-First Approach to Integrating LLMs in Higher Education PDF of slides available on LinkedIn 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/iamjon...

Looking forward to presenting my paper tomorrow! #EDUCON #IEEE

Just finished reading 📖 Crawford, K. (2021) The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @katecrawford.bsky.social

OpenAI’s mind-boggling growth masks challenges on.ft.com/3Ggi5b0 #GenAI #AI

12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2025 spectrum.ieee.org/ai-index-2025

The Great Chatbot Debate: Do LLMs Really Understand? Emily Bender and Sébastien Bubeck Computer History Museum + @ieeespectrum.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=YtIQ... #GenAI #LLMs

The Great Chatbot Debate: Do LLMs Really Understand? Emily Bender and Sébastien Bubeck Computer History Museum + @ieeespectrum.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=YtIQ... #GenAI #LLMs

Is AI good for the climate? www.economist.com/the-world-in...

Some interesting stats Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop... #academicSky #GenAI #LLMs