The Newman Civic Fellowship at #Stanford stanforddaily.com/2025/09/23/m... Note: 🔹 #Democracy Day 🔹Stanford Stands for Democracy #civicengagement #civictech #politicalscience #polysci #civiceducation #civicseducation #highereducation #highered

#AI in #highered – #AIliteracy teaching.virginia.edu/collections/... #highereducation #instructionaldesign #edtech #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #AIethics

"Thinking in an AI-Augmented World" forum at #Harvard news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... "...cognitively offload...cognitively expand... try to work out how we do that expansion rather than that replacement...” #K12 #highereducation #instructionaldesign #edtech #artificialintelligence #AI #LLMs

Students in #highered and overreliance on #AI – "...safeguard #highereducation, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity." —in www.zdnet.com/article/stud... #instructionaldesign #edtech #artificialintelligence

#Civiceducation – Everyday #Democracy: How Local Leaders Are Building Trust and Belonging In-person event on October 24, 10a–12p ET, in #WashingtonDC events.newamerica.org/everydaydemo... #civicengagement #citizenship #civics #civicseducation #K12 #highereducation

*Rewiring #Democracy: How #AI Will Transform Our #Politics, #Government, and #Citizenship* – in-person book talk, #Harvard, October 22 ash.harvard.edu/events/in-pe... #artificialintelligence #digitalgov #civictech #civiceducation #civicseducation

#Metascience, #openscience – “We just cannot underestimate how empowering people with information can literally change the course of their life.” www.nature.com/articles/d41... #STEM #science #research #openaccess #healthcare #patientcare

#STEMeducation at #MIT – stand-alone #PhD program in computational science and engineering (CSE) news.mit.edu/2025/new-com... "...no matter what you're studying: what is it good for?" #STEM #science #computerscience #engineering #highereducation #highered #instructionaldesign #PhDchat #PhDforum

#Digitization, #AI, and #meteorology www.nature.com/articles/d41... #climatescience #weather #digitalization #digitaltransformation #artificialintelligence #machinelearning

#Futureofwork and "next great American job" – worker's hybrid role: #worker is both "AI trainer" and "AI messenger" (teaching and translating) thehill.com/opinion/tech... #digitaleconomy #workers #workforce #remotework #artificialintelligence #AI #robotics #automation

"Strategies for Integrating #AI into State and Local Government Decision Making" —report from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/09... #digitalgov #govtech #civictech #artificialintelligence #AIethics

Strengthening #Democracy Initiative from #MIT #PoliticalScience news.mit.edu/2024/qa-davi... Goals include: "...mark MIT as the country’s leading center for rigorous, evidence-based analysis of democratic resiliency." #politics #civiceducation #civicseducation #highereducation #highered

#Universities and the "academic mission to understand how #AI works" hai.stanford.edu/news/three-r... Note the collaboration called: "The #Physics of Learning and Neural Computation". #highereducation #highered #STEM #science #STEMeducation #artificialintelligence #LLMs #AIethics #physicists

"Mythical #creativity vs. combinational creativity: • Pulling something completely new out of thin air vs. • Remixing, reframing, and recombining what already exists" —from @neuranne.bsky.social nesslabs.com/newsletter/w... #psychology #neuroscience

#AI and "the value of struggle" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... #creativity #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #AIethics #philosophy #psychiatry

#Harvard #researchers and #federalfunding www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... #academia #highereducation #highered #STEM #science #research

The Convergence of #AI and #Apprenticeship: @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social hi.bsky.social (podcast 51:43) apprenticeship2dot0.libsyn.com/the-converge... #K12 #highereducation #instructionaldesign #apprenticeships #workforce #workforcedevelopment #futureofwork #artificialintelligence

Educating for American #Democracy: Excellence in #Civics and #History for All Learners (EAD), with Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy www.nasbe.org/the-challeng... #democracy #citizenship #K12 #civiceducation #civicseducation #instructionaldesign

"I am all for using #AI in #education; we use it extensively in our teaching...But we use it to empower educators and students, not to replace them...Schools are, and must remain, human enterprises..." www.linkedin.com/posts/saeed-... #K12 #instructionaldesign #edtech #artificialintelligence

#Democracy and #AI – free workshop series from professors at Harvard and Northeastern University innovate-us.org/workshop-ser... #democraticengagement #civicengagement #civiceducation #civictech #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #AIethics

A "public #AI model...for the #publicinterest": Apertus from #Switzerland (Apertus is Latin for "open") www.engadget.com/ai/switzerla... #opensource #publicinteresttechnology #publicinteresttech #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #LLMs

How #ArtificialIntelligence is Reshaping #Engineering Education and Practice – online forum www.eventbrite.com/e/how-artifi... #STEM #STEMeducation #highereducation #instructionaldesign #edtech #AI #workforcedevelopment #art #creativity #futureofwork

#Lifelonglearning, "hands-on tinkering" and iteration – "'...a forward-thinking #retirement.... w/what I have learned, I’m always looking ahead for the next challenge or adventure....'" alum.mit.edu/slice/68-yea... #learning #psychology #STEM #engineering #dataanalytics #MIT #triathlon

Upcoming #AI & #healthcare conference aimi.stanford.edu/aihealth25 #health #healthtech #medtech #artificialintelligence #medicine #meded #medschool #Stanford

A Guide to #AI in Schools: Perspectives for the Perplexed by educators and for educators —from Teaching Systems Lab #MIT tsl.mit.edu/ai-guidebook/ #K12 #instructionaldesign #edtech #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #AIethics

"Harvard President Alan Garber urged students and faculty to embrace disagreement as necessary to the vitality and advancement of meaningful institutions.... good-faith disagreements are fundamental to any strong community...." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... #highereducation #highered #Harvard

#Highered for #lifelonglearning in #Korea longevity.stanford.edu/lessons-from... #highereducation #instructionaldesign

The #MIT #Museum (video 4:58) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbbU... #academia #highereducation #highered #museums #curator #curators #STEM #science

#Civiceducation at GSU theconversation.com/college-stud... Note: Civic Online Reasoning curriculum from #Stanford research group. #democracy #citizenship #civicseducation #digitalliteracy #misinformation #disinformation #highereducation #highered #instructionaldesign

#Scientists and #democracy – "...The ability to tell the truth, even (or especially) when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society...." @ucs.org blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol... #STEM #science #ruleoflaw

#Futureofwork – #AI and the #apprenticeship washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/27/a... #artificialintelligence #workforce #workers #apprenticeships

Community #broadband documentary mail.communitynets.org/content/comm... #digitaldivide #digitalinclusion

"...an AI-informed future will require *more of what universities presently provide, not less*." www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/replac... "...higher education...the creation of autonomous human minds as authors..." #highereducation #instructionaldesign #edtech #artificialintelligence #AI

#Civictech – #IRSDirectFile Program codeforamerica.org/news/code-fo... "...While #DirectFile as we know it may be going away, the idea that tax filing can be free and easy is here to stay...." #publicinteresttechnology #publicinteresttech #IRS #incometax

#Meded and #edtech – virtual conference October 23 #Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education medhub.stanford.edu/event/innova... #health #healthcare #medschool #instructionaldesign

#AI and the #futureofwork – "groundbreaking new paper" from #Stanford digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications... Note: • AI-exposed occupations; entry-level workers vs. more experienced workers; augmentation vs. replacement • Six key facts #digitaleconomy #artificialintelligence #generativeAI

#Bioinspiration and #robotics: ripple bugs (Rhagovelia obesa) www.sciencenews.org/article/ripp... #robots #bots #design #biomimicry #biomechanics #nature #zoology #entomology

#AI at UVA School of #DataScience: high school bootcamp (video 1:22) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gjY... #highereducation #highered #K12 #STEMeducation #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #ML #datascience #Virginia

Upcoming #civictech event formfest.org #digitalgov

#Highered – about #AI and #edtech: the pedagogical research? —in www.timeshighereducation.com/news/guard-r... #highereducation #instructionaldesign #pedagogy #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #AIethics

#VirginiaTech – fall classes begin today "...First-year students will represent a record number of #Virginia high schools as well as 48 states & 82 countries. Our global reach is at an all-time high...." news.vt.edu/articles/202... #academia #highereducation #internationaleducation #globaleducation

#Broadband #WestVirginia – BEAD proposal: #fiberoptics www.lightreading.com/broadband/we... "Congratulations to the West Virginia Office of Broadband for releasing a BEAD final proposal that makes complete sense...." (Gigi Sohn, AAPB) #techpolicy #digitaldivide #digitalinclusion

#Medtech – medical #robotics news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... Note non-learning-based vs. learning-based functionality. #health #healthcare #healthtech #artificialintelligence #AI #LLMs

#Highered – the "liberal-skills fusion model": "T-shaped" graduates www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... #highereducation #instructionaldesign #liberalarts #humanities #arts #STEM #STEMeducation #democracy #civicengagement #lifelonglearning #futureofwork

#MIT Learn – AI-enabled website for #lifelonglearning news.mit.edu/2025/mit-lea... Includes video 2:24. #highereducation #highered #K12 #openlearning #digitallearning #onlinelearning #instructionaldesign #edtech #artificialintelligence #AI #OER

#Highereducation – "essential" #humanities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/essenti... "...show why the humanities are not just practical & useful – & that humanities degrees are useful & worthwhile – but essential because they help us define what it means to be human." #STEM #STEMeducation

#Science and #interdisciplinarity – "...This is one of those discoveries that was possible only because we made connections between very different scientific disciplines...." www.timeshighereducation.com/news/scienti... #academia #highereducation #highered #STEM #research

#Civictech – #AI #vibecoding for #SanFrancisco sfstandard.com/2025/08/17/s... "Use AI to fix San Francisco’s toughest problems...." Note SF10x. #activism #civicengagement #civtech #coding #artificialintelligence #hackathons

#Creativity and #science www.nature.com/articles/d41... Note: • "night-and-day science" • Creativity #Research Network #STEM #scientists #arts #PhDchat #PhDforum #postdocs

AI-powered #edtech in #K12 – new research project from #GenerativeAI for #Education Hub at #Stanford acceleratelearning.stanford.edu/story/how-is... #instructionaldesign #artificialintelligence #AI #LLMs #OpenAI #ChatGPT