Generative AI firms are not on your side. They are marketing directly to students about how their platforms will do classwork for students. Think that’s far-fetched? Take a look at this.

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

Students don't engage with content. They engage with people.

Anyone here heading to #21CLHK25 this week in Hong Kong to hang with @21cl.bsky.social and other like minded folks?

It’s hard to make this up. “Al Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use Al in Job Applications” open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

I think I'll just say this when I'm asked to weigh in on an inane topic in a meeting. (Appeared in MS Word upon invoking the dictionary).

this is how every site should look actually

I just put my phone on Do Not Disturb 24/7/365. Only my wife and kids can get through. Everything else can wait. I’ll let you know how it goes.

The teens & screens debate is broken. At UK, Ryan Hargrove & I are leaning in with our design thinking course, Teens & Screens, a hands-on class to tackle the challenge of teens & tech. Check out our liquid syllabus: sites.google.com/view/tek-300... Who’s tackling this too? Let’s connect!

I have listened to most episodes of this valuable podcast by @jasonjohnston.bsky.social and @jnash.bsky.social thanks John, Jason, and guests for the valuable videos that can be applied to all classrooms.

An AI bet! Proceeds to charity, on where AI will be at the end of 2027, with @milesbrundage.bsky.social, formerly of OpenAI. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

I am thrilled to share EP 33 of the Online Learning Podcast with @flowerdarby.bsky.social ! @jnash.bsky.social and I talk with Flower about small steps that can help create more inclusive, equitable, and humanized online learning. Website: lnkd.in/e8N49bU5 Apple Podcasts: lnkd.in/embjJGvd

#Community. You never know where you’re going to find it.

Research tests if LLMs hold consistent values. LLMs handle neutral topics reliably; controversial issues vary. Not surprising but important to document. Why? Consistency is a known issue with LLMs & value-aware models may be used to exploit users. #LLM #GenAI arxiv.org/html/2407.02...

This is a lovely starter guide from @tonyvincent.bsky.social for teschers who are considering BlueSky. Share with your colleagues!

Yes to all of this. Fwiw, our survey respondents had A LOT to say about the particular reasons. We wrote up the results here: "Gendered devaluation underlies faculty retention", also led by @kspoon.bsky.social, with @danlarremore.bsky.social, @larivera.bsky.social and others. osf.io/preprints/so...

Saw this today while watching MyNameIsDeya’s YT feed. Couldn’t be more applicable for so many of us. Remember: you got this. www.instagram.com/p/DA6oBilNBs...

Prof. Ryan Hargrove & I can attest to this: students enter college believing they should (a) be good at school & (b) don’t have to be good at learning. When 18 y-os enter our ungraded, project based, community driven course, we start the work to help them unlearn 12 years of indoctrination. #EduSky

Digital devices are now part of everything we do—They’ve become essential & hard to avoid in our daily lives. Carlos Davidovich shares his experiencetaking a break from online work and social media to simply going forwalk lnkd.in/fyNvHxr #wellbeing #digitaldevices#internationalschoolspodcast

As #edusky & other BlueSky teacher communities emerge, it's worth remembering that many educators left Twitter well before the Elon et. al toxicity period. Excessive self-promotion, lack of professional benefit, stress/burnout, noise, erosion of dialogue, etc. were all factors. Let's learn and grow.

I love this simple insertion of #GenAI into a tried and true collaborative teaching technique. It can extend thinking within the pair and group, and set up constructive critique of how and when GenAI is and isn’t appropriate or useful. Thanks, @courosa.bsky.social! #EduSky

Making the case for rekindling reading for fun among youth: “The skills that students use when reading for fun — especially reading longer texts — are also the same ones they need for everything from reading car manuals to ‘listening to political discourse and making sense of it’” #EduSky

Each tip in this piece is applicable immediately and fit even in undergraduate and graduate courses. I found two I’ll use right away in my classes. #EduSky

For fun, I tried replicating Edward Zitron's if ChatGPT 4o knows the number of states with “A” in the name. The offering is 33, including Connecticut. The correct answer is 36. Will this be covered in the new Common Sense Media guide for educators? #generativeAI #ChatGPT

@bethrous.bsky.social and I just took our first #Waymo ride. Pretty surreal. Ask me anything.

I’m sympathetic to horrified colleagues receiving superficially grammatical garbage assignments. What have the students actually learned? Turning stuff in is not evidence of learning, though it has come to be students’ primary task. Checking things off the #LMS assignment list. 2/2

A5: Always recommend Grow Beyond Grades (growbeyondgrades.org/blog?categor...) for those with new interest. I have been trying to read more scholarship. Pedagogy recently had a special issue on ungrading that I highly recommend: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53743 #UngradingChat

I’m not sure this is a problem that really need solving. However, if implemented in university meetings to shame, say, mansplaining — that could be fun.

Amazing #CASTLE session at #UCEA on Tech Intersections with Education Leadership. AI informed, equity focused, internationally informed, policy curious ... super cool. Learn more here: schooltechleadership.org @jaysonrichardson.bsky.social @scottmcleod.bsky.social

I have now seen multiple snide references to the "faculty lounge" in higher education, and if someone can please direct me to this place called a "faculty lounge," I would appreciate it. It sounds like a place where power is wielded!

If we adopt AI, we need to do it with purpose and conviction that it helps us and our students. Not because we think it’s inevitable, so we need to give in.

News of Common Sense Media publishing a guide for educators focused just on OpenAI’s ChatGPT (carrying Altman’s water?) reminded me of this quote from @jasonjohnston.bsky.social’s keynote at the KY Convergence Conference this month. HT Jason #edusky #genAI #teachers

Welcome to today’s Graduate Student Summit! Check in on the 2nd floor, then join us at the opening session at noon in Beaudry B. 📣 The GSC Call for Applications (2025-2027) is open! Learn more and apply by Jan 31 at tinyurl.com/uceagsc2... #UCEA24 #EducationLeadership

Why would that be, I wonder? ———-OpenAI releases a teacher’s guide to ChatGPT, but some educators are skeptical techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/o...

Lizzie Fraser, architect featured on “Your Home Made Perfect,” describes #designthinking to a T. This is how latent needs are discovered: “It’s my job to disprove what you think you want, and show you what you didn’t know you wanted.” #discovery #empathy #listening #design

This is a fascinating study, and speaks to the vast perception gap between what LLMs are capable of and what people think they are capable of. Doctors using ChatGPT for diagnosis performed *worse* than ChatGPT alone, because they kept second-guessing the model. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...

Today's the day! -A Pedagogy of Kindness- is now out as an audiobook, available wherever you get your audiobooks (including your library!) Thanks to everyone at the U of OK Press and Tantor Media for this. You can hear a preview at the link below www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr0J...

Dear Educators. Dressing up as Native Americans to celebrate/teach about Thanksgiving isn't culturally/ pedagogically appropriate. Images like the one below are harmful. See: americanindian.si.edu/nk360/inform... centerracialjustice.org/resources/th... www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/tea...

“I try to write using ordinary words and simple sentences. That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read, the more deeply readers will engage with it. The less energy they expend on your prose, the more they'll have left for your ideas.” ~Paul Graham (HT Eddie Shleyner)

If you’re new here like me, maybe you’ve noticed there’s something nice about BlueSky and you can’t put your finger on it. This this lovely piece, by @davekarpf.bsky.social, reveals the many reasons why this place feels, well, nice.

While I'm here I'll strive to: 1. Give first/serve first; turn experiences into shareable insights. 2. Learn out loud; build in public. 3. Amplify others. 4. Comment when it builds meaningful connections. What do you hope to do here?

Looking forward to UCEA 2024 in LA. Gonna talk about how to liberate state report card databases with generative AI. Catch a bit more in this thread: bsky.app/profile/jnas... #UCEA24 #edusky #edtechsky #LeadershipMatters @uceagsc.bsky.social

[Thread] I'm heading to #UCEA2024 in LA next week to talk about "Using AI to Expose Inequities in State Education Data." We have a novel approach to leveraging public education data using generative AI large language models (LLMs). (1/6) #edusky #edtechsky #llm #genai #UCEA24

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) Exploring novice uptake of design thinking concepts. 2) How deep knowledge can limit creativity.