“Handwriting is to typing like reading a book is to listening to an audiobook while simultaneously cooking dinner, watching the tv on silent, and texting with a friend. By virtue of what it is, it requires conscious effort in a way typing does not.“ — @mkonnikova.bsky.social

Well worth listening to. Will AI crush higher education? Jimmy Alfonso Licon / The Uncommon Wisdom Podcast @anecdotal.bsky.social & @bryan_caplan substack.com/home/post/p-...

Le Québec affiche l’un des meilleurs niveaux de bien-être www.ledevoir.com/economie/932...

How Technology Is Making Us Stupid an interview with @daisychristo.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

“Students’ reluctance to perform controversial viewpoints in public settings may reflect a paradigm shift that meaningful engagement with controversial ideas requires privacy and reflection. AI may deliver all this far more fruitfully than the performative classroom discussions that FIRE champions”

@thebandb.bsky.social thoughts on this article? open.substack.com/pub/freddied...

@schewpsych.bsky.social Thoughts on this article? open.substack.com/pub/freddied...

I can imagine similar displays of sincerity in Russia and China. How did we get here?

The exact wording of the prompt is not that important, it is the idea that you can use modern web-connected LLMs as solid first-pass fact checkers that is useful. As an author, I can choose to take or leave their advice, but it is helpful to have it.

“The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise” - @daisychristo.bsky.social

The definition of insanity? “…pivot back towards fossil fuels in a bid to revive its share price.”

“The objective world no doubt exists, but the world we experience is always an active construction, a kind of “controlled hallucination” in which the brain uses sensory signals to update and calibrate its best interpretation of what’s going on.” - @anilseth.bsky.social

“…three things happens when people use a machine to automate a task they would otherwise have done themselves: - Their skill in the activity grows. - Their skill in the activity atrophies. - Their skill in the activity never develops” - Nicholas Carr www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-o...

What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change “Methane traps about 80 times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide over 20 years. And methane emissions, which are driving an estimated 45 percent of human-caused warming, are rising rapidly.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

“All I’m asking is this: those in the media who have the reach and resources to find the qualified skeptics out there should do much more to highlight those voices and make them more prominent in public discourse about AI. “ - Freddie deBoer freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/no-i-mean-...

“ #ChatGPT and #Claude have got really quite good at writing. As they improve, will they make human writers, even highly skilled ones, as obsolete as typists?” A conversation between @ianleslie.bsky.social and @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

“According to one, Kate Conroy, even the "smartest kids insist that ChatGPT is good 'when used correctly,'" but they "can’t answer the question [when asked] 'How does one use it correctly then?'" - @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Should Boys Start Kindergarten a Year Later Than Girls? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

“Instead of a story about human-machine substitution, we’re witnessing the emergence of a new form of human-machine collaboration that’s slower, more complex, and ultimately more dependent on human judgment than anyone predicted.” - @samirvarma.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

Memory, learning and forgetting. @ciaragreene.bsky.social www.unsiloedpodcast.com/episodes/cia...

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Who's Cheating?, by @kteare substack.com/@kteare/note...

Very good interview with our Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social starts at 16:20🇨🇦

“To have a brain that is flexible, that tries to resist ideologies, is a brain that’s constantly hard at work—at balancing...being receptive to evidence, thinking about all those identity categories that we often put us in…” @leorzmigrod.bsky.social

“..if we imagine a spectrum from the very extreme left to the very extreme right, we see that the most cognitively flexible people are generally in the center-left and are the least likely to latch onto pre-established group identities.” - @leorzmigrod.bsky.social

These weekly tech( not only) discussions are excellent! @ajkeen.bsky.social and @kteare.bsky.social thank you.

Ah yes, the real world. “…while it sounds very logical in theory, recent research shows that practice can sometimes be stubborn—especially when the research is done in a real classroom environment with real students.” - @thebandb.bsky.social

“Recent history is littered with the wrecks of overconfident forecasts about the future. This dangerous arrogance emerges naturally from academic specialization.” - @stuartwhatley.bsky.social

On Sam Altman, “He wants to make world-changing technology. He wants to change the world. He wants to fix the world as much as he can. I do feel like his whole life he has been told, and it's true, that he has special gifts.” - @keachhagey.bsky.social

Great interview with Richard Mayer by @mrzachg.bsky.social …we need a part 2. #edusky #generativelearning #soi #multimedia

Is the USA still a democracy?

"But “with AI, over the next decade, that will become free, commonplace — great medical advice, great tutoring,” Gates said." Anyone who has taught (well) knows this is not possible for myriad reasons. GenAI can augment teachers, but humans need human teachers. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/b...

“New research shows ChatGPT’s inability to cope with ‘messy’ multitasking is still protecting some human workers” - @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

“However, it is not changing our mind per se that means we have learned something. It is determining, based on what we have learned, whether or not it is appropriate to change our mind, and then acting accordingly. “ @koenfucius.bsky.social

Have humans passed peak brain power? www.ft.com/content/a801... via @financialtimes.com

Interview with Daisy Christodoulou / @daisychristo.bsky.social by Econtalk / Russ Roberts x.com/EconTalker

“And so when I look at the revenge politics and the punitive measures and the beggar-thy-neighbour approaches being endorsed by the Trump regime, I think we're back to the beginning of the 1930s, and it terrifies me.” - Gillian Tett / @financialtimes.com

#ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety’ from violent user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe’ it - fortune.com/2025/03/09/o...

Only 0.13% of papers in top 100 education journals were replications (far less than any other field of social research, which is already pretty bad for replications btw).

Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong - @garymarcus.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

@garymarcus.bsky.social any thoughts about mistral.ai ?

@emollick.bsky.social Have you tried mistral.ai ? Thoughts? Thanks.

“Teaching plans enhanced through AI performed at or above the level of high-quality plans written by experienced human teachers. After one round of enhancement by GPT-4, plans scored higher than those written by experienced teachers…” - @carlhendrick.substack.com

Trump wants a world safe for autocracy - @gideonrachman.bsky.social

The Phone-Based Childhood, #EdTech & What To Do About It - @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social

Excellent overview of retrieval practice and its implementation for both teachers and students by @carlhendrick.substack.com

“It is clear that the US can no longer be regarded as a reliable ally for the Europeans. But the Trump administration’s political ambitions for Europe mean that, for now, America is also an adversary — threatening democracy …” - @gideonrachman.bsky.social

Does listening to audio books count as “reading”? A roundup of views... @jamestatehill.bsky.social , Markham Heid, Jennifer Walter and @dtwuva.bsky.social #reading #audiobooks

"Currently, a great deal of energy is going into making AI-generated feedback more accurate. This is important, but even if we overcome that problem, we face another one: the “accurate but useless” problem." - @daisychristo.bsky.social

Excellent interview and overview of The Psychology of Effective Studying - Paul Penn / The Dissenter