Very sad to learn of the death on 18th July of Margaret (Maggie) Boden, a titan of cognitive science and AI. I met her many times, and respected her greatly. www.theargus.co.uk/memorials/de...

When AI brings you a stinky fish… 🐟 Michelle Kassorla nails it: helpful, eager, but not always right. We’re collecting analogies like this to spark authentic learning. Join us: lnkd.in/gAiJYSSa #EduSKy #EduSkyAI #EdTech #WhyLearningMatters

"When used well, AI doesn’t undermine critical thinking. It demands it." #EduSkyAI #AIinEducation www.edtechdigest.com/2025/05/08/t...

With AI so prevalent, how do we help students see why their own effort in learning still matters? 🤔 We are collecting your best analogies & strategies to share! What clicks for your students? Share your insights below. (Image shows some ideas!) #EduSKy #EduSkyAI #EdTech #CCCAILearn

DYSTOPIAN FICTION STRETCHES STUDENT MINDS. Teaching dystopian fiction offers students a meaningful way to engage w/ literature & social issues while developing critical thinking, says teacher Kasey Short. #edusky #iteachEnglish #tlskychat @shortissweet.bsky.social www.middleweb.com/52179/dystop...

But no one person or detector is accurate. You should not rely on AI detection or you will falsely accuse people!

This paper confirms my belief that figuring out how to effectively employ LLMs at scale in education is one of the most important research problems of the day (and no, the answer is not “replace teachers with AI”) Huge potential returns, and the worst case use of AI is already happening in schools.

The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04787-y #AI #education

🚀 SOMEWHERE IN THE EDUCATIONAL WASTELAND, THE AI TOOK HOLD. Students burning through assignments at supernatural speeds. Until one said: "That AI tutor made me THINK HARDER." What madness! A tool that SLOWS the mind? We need CONTROLLED WEIRDNESS—AI for the scenic route. #EduSKy #EduSkyAI #EdTech

🚦 Dutch engineer's "naked streets" experiment: removing signs made drivers MORE careful With AI in education? the opposite students with unclear AI policies don't slow down—they accelerate "not a moral failing; it's a systems problem" #EduSKy #EduSkyAI #EdTech open.substack.com/pub/elmartin...

ChatGPT didn't create a crisis in education-it simply revealed what was brewing for decades. Students need to see the purpose and value in what they do. That means we need to speak to students beyond AI about why learning matters. open.substack.com/pub/emilypit...

"What I’m suggesting here is not necessarily resisting [AI]. We’re almost at a point where that would be akin to resisting the internet or electricity...But the way we use technology, and the form the technology takes in the future, is not set in stone." @leonfurze.com leonfurze.com/2025/04/28/t...

The recent sycophancy update in ChatGPT should be an opportunity to talk about LLMs impact on human interaction. The real danger isn’t one bad update—it’s the industry-wide pattern of prioritizing scale over caution. open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...

✍️ Just launched: "Unpack Your Golden Line" app on PlayLab! Fellow teachers: Pick a quote and try this app that uses Socratic dialogue to guide deeper analysis. Try it with a powerful quote that resonates with you! #EduSky #EduSkyAI #EdTech #PlayLab open.substack.com/pub/elmartin...

Built "Write Type" app that reveals writing personalities: 🎉 You Are: The Reflective Architect - You thrive on structure, thoughtfully building ideas brick by brick. #EduSky #EduSkyAI #EdTech #PlayLab open.substack.com/pub/elmartin...

what if we replaced rigor with vigor in first-year writing? not less challenge—more curiosity. more risk. more life. AI can crank out tidy essays. but it can’t wrestle with meaning. or change its mind mid-sentence. #EduSKy #EduSkyAI #EdTech open.substack.com/pub/elmartin...

What if your institution quietly started planning to drop the writing requirement? At a recent AI + higher ed event, one Ivy League admin told @cnewf.bsky.social exactly that. My new post explores what that means—and how we respond. #EduSKy #EduSkyAI #EdTech open.substack.com/pub/elmartin...

When I was 22 years old, I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. The only oath Elon Musk seems to have made is to his billionaire buddies and his own bank account.

Thinking about @alanyliu.bsky.social's insights on recombinatory creativity and AI in a 2023 talk. When is AI most useful for bridging knowledge silos across disciplines, and when do we need the slower friction of human thinking? #EduSky #EduSkyAI #EdTech open.substack.com/pub/elmartin...

Hey my nerds, I found these crowdsourced Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools while doing research. (Right now, there's 184) #amresearching #edusky #teachersky #edtech docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A chance for public comment on U.S. AI policy! We need independent research and democratic oversight to set AI on a better path... it's in our interest. American leadership means doing this well, not willy-nilly. Due March 15th. Please share! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Two mindsets about AI in education: 📝 TRANSACTIONAL: AI as a paper mill that replaces student thinking 🗣️ RELATIONAL: AI as a conversation partner that deepens student thinking #EduSky #EduSkyAI #EdTech

"Trickle-down" economics was once known as "horse-and-sparrow" theory in the late 19th century, where you feed horses so many oats that some of the oats in their manure will go undigested, leaving some for the sparrows. It is a very appropriate illustration of economic inequality in this country.

My Floyd? Pink.

1000%

Breaking News: Scientists from the University of the Basque Country have discovered a groundbreaking molecule, WIN55.212-2, that reverses early cognitive damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.

Dear Manager, This week: 1. I can't explain, you would not understand. 2. I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye 3. I turned to look, but it was gone 4. I cannot put my finger on it now 5. I have become comfortably numb #opm

Dear OPM, this week I: 1) Wandered lonely through nature 2) Spotted golden daffodils beside the lake 3) Watched them flutter and dance in the breeze 4) Gazed in pleasant, vacant thought 5) Recalled the scene when in a pensive mood

Dear OPM, this week: 1) I have eaten the plums 2) I got them from the icebox 3) you were probably saving them for breakfast? 4) Forgive me? 5) They were so sweet. So cold.

Dear manager: 1) wore the bottoms of my trousers rolled 2) parted my hair behind 3) dared to eat a peach 4) heard the mermaids singing each to each 5) do not think that they will sing to me

This is amazing. Where’s the comparable effort for non-science?

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.

One thing that really sticks in my craw is how these assholes are patently, obviously, the *enemies* of every good thing I was raised to be. They're unkind, dishonest, incurious, dissolute, unfaithful, meritless. The actual dregs of society.

One way AI might help decision-making is by presenting strong positive and negative cases for a policy (“steelmen”) so we can see both sides of an issue. For example, these are small sections of two OpenAI Deep Research reports on “the case for/against regulating AI development”

👍 AI mirage 👎 AI hallucination So many have objected to "hallucination" as a description of faulty AI outputs. We need a term that doesn't suggest conscious delusion. @xolotl.org and I analyzed 80+ alternatives and settled on "mirage." We make the case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Could AI-guided writing assignments help students build the feedback resilience employers say recent grads are missing? My latest thoughts. #EduSKy #EduSkyAI #EdTech

Writing teacher shower thought: What if AI's ability to generate essays isn't a threat but an opportunity to finally do what we've always wanted - focus on the process of writing rather than just the final product? #WritingTeacher #AI #EduSKy #EduSkyAI #EdTech open.substack.com/pub/elmartin...

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

Alexander Pope wrote poems that were so mean grown men quit writing, and Kendrick is firmly in his tradition

Basic necessities of life should not be a product only available to those who can afford them.

Every professor should join the AAUP right now if you haven't. www.aaup.org Also join your local campus workers union, or any other union relevant to your work (they do different things!). If the government won't protect us, and our administrations won't protect us, we need to protect each other.

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

All this, because America elected the first ever Black President. Sigh.

I don't see why it might not happen at some point that an AI system comes up with some problem-solving approach we haven't thought of but which builds on all we have thought of (at least all it's trained on). Andrej Karpathy is arguing this in a viral X post (c'mon to Bsky!): x.com/karpathy/sta...

Okay, shameless plug. Here is my own blog post about what happens when 9th graders have access to instant AI feedback on their writing project. #EduSKyAI www.litandtech.com/2024/11/what...