Good to know that Line 5 is helping Toronto keep our world class ranking.

"OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire, cloaked in ethics and bundled with a Terms of Service. The university didn’t resist. It clicked ‘Accept.’"

Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...

Friendly reminder that Instructure, parent company of Canvas, is owned by KKR, a private equity firm that purchased it for $4.8 billion last November.

A solid read for any educator concerned about data extraction, "optimizing" learning, and corporate EdTech's insistence that their way is the future. Bonus points for incorporating science-leaning terms to describe human interactions. (Fun to imagine!)

As long as educational systems are hampered by a product vs process mentality (i.e. test scores vs skill building), this will be a problem. Does product matter to education? Yes. Should we keep weighting it as 90% of a student's marks? No.

I do not like AI in Slack I do not like AI on Mac I do not like AI in Zoom I don’t want AI in my room I do not want ChatGPT — please stop, AI, and leave me be! I don’t want AI here, or there; I don’t want AI anywhere! (… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)

Sorely tempted to add "disappoofed" to my lexicon. #genAI The rest is going in my folder of AI examples to explain what #AI-isn't

AI promotes product and eliminates process. The exact opposite of what we should want in education. What a beautifully concise observation.

The AI Con >>> The AI Khan cc: @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social

"GenAI can ... [summarize, draft, & generate ideas.] But that would be like going to the gym and asking a robot to lift weights for you." Partial integration is a can of poisoned worms and I don't see the preparation to support it at any grade. Analogy hits the mark to explain why. Great article.