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Sebastião Salgado, a celebrated Brazilian photographer whose striking images of humanity and nature in the Amazon rainforest and beyond won him some of the world’s top honors and made him a household name, has died at 81.

The state of research on AI and education from controlled studies: Growing evidence that, when used as a tutor with instructor guidance, AI seems to have quite significant positive effects. When used alone to get help with homework, it can act as shortcut that hurts learning. Still early days.

Kristen DiCerbo, @khanacademy.org Chief Learning Officer, visited our school in April and talked about their methodology for developing tools like Khanmigo and the importance of the teacher-student relationship. #EduSky #AIEdu 📝 mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/gratitude-...

I don’t mean to be a broken record but AI development could stop at the o3/Gemini 2.5 level and we would have a decade of major changes across entire professions & industries (medicine, law, education, coding…) as we figure out how to actually use it & adapt our systems. AI disruption is baked in.

We don’t need AI to think for us—we need it to think with us. Co-agency in classrooms starts with intentional design. 🤔 How are you using AI as a thought partner or teaching assistant? We're looking for some great examples to share 👀. #EduSky #AiEdu

Gratitude and optimism: my primary takeaways after Khan Academy’s CLO @kristendicerbo.bsky.social came to speak about AI at our school. Here’s my reflection about her presentation from KA’s Blog. blog.khanacademy.org/guest-blog-p... @khanacademy.org @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social #aiedu #edusky

If you are an advocate of EdTech, I would love your opinion on this post I wrote: The argument for and against technology in schools: jcasatodd.com/the-most-com... #TLSky #EduSky

Imagine being any kind of migrant right now. We've got folks who are really struggling to find pathways to any country that will validate their humanity. It's important to support agencies like Kino Border Initiative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=klgP...

When it comes to AI integration, a Both/And approach feels like a more productive way to intentionally operate in the healthy and necessary tensions educators all face. #EDUSky #AiEdu

Stages Of A Self-Directed Learning Model #EduSky www.teachthought.com...

Are you using AI to enhance student feedback? This week @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social keeps digging into practical ways to partner with AI without sacrificing your voice and direction. #EduSky #AiEdu #EdTech

I’m sick of getting added to these random group chats in Signal

Great frameworks for using AI for feedback from @danikachorskyphd.bsky.social Three Approaches to Collaborating with AI to Provide Students with Feedback open.substack.com/pub/mindfula...

Evidence that a well prompted LLM can help learning from a (small, single-subject) randomized controlled trial at Harvard: “here we show that students learn more than twice as much in less time with an AI tutor compared to an active learning classroom, while also being more engaged and motivated.”

Gaming has strayed too far from what it once was. We need to go back to our roots. Bring back big head modes and cheat codes that unlock silly costumes

A thread on the difficulties of learning to code. Studies show that roughly 1/3 of incoming Comp Sci majors do not progress to their 2nd year, often due to the difficulty of the subject and lack of preparation. 🧵 #EduSky #AiEdu #Coding

A new post from me on my thoughts about vibe coding in education spaces. #edusky #aiforedu open.substack.com/pub/mindfula...

[Sigh]. A) Jelani Cobb is a great journalist and teacher of journalism and he oversaw his students as they did superb and vital work covering the protests on their campus. B) He is telling them (as he says later) the honest and brutal truth: their school can't protect them from the Fed Govt.

If you have used LLM image generators, you know they are hard to control: LLM had to send a prompt to a separate image generation tool, it did not not make the image. Gemini is the first public release of a full multimodal LLM that can directly make images. This allows the systems to do detail work

sometimes I feel like people who freak out about keeping science fiction and fantasy separate and distinct are like that little kid who doesn't want the peas and carrots to touch on their plate. It's all imaginative fiction, folks.

Does AI Kill Critical Thinking? Maybe Not If We Use It Right Educate AI Regarding AI automating tasks, “this doesn’t mean we’re thinking less. It means our thinking is changing. And that shift can be an opportunity rather than a loss—if we learn how to use AI intentionally.” edu-ai.org/does-ai-k...

Brilliant!

Using AI for coding is like that moment when everyone stops listening to the instructions for a new board game and just says "we'll figure it out, let's just start playing." #AI #edusky #AIforEdu

I agree that humans are essential, but not because AI can't make great jokes yet 😂 we've got to set higher standards if we don't want to write ourselves into a corner.

“I know when my dad was 95, 96, 97, 98, we had a live-in cook and maid for him,” he said. “I’m surprised they didn’t have them.” This had me thinking about the role community plays in our lives and eventual deaths. A good reminder that we should all hold some responsibility to check on our elders.

What does mindful AI use look like for you and your students? If we do this right, the potential is incredible. #EduSky #AiEDU mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/a-new-jour...

The most important thing students get in an AI-driven classroom isn’t automation—it’s you. 💡 If AI is part of your teaching, make sure your human fingerprints are all over it. #EduSky #AiEdu #EdTech New post 👉 mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/leaving-yo...

A new post coming up by me for the team

This approach is vital. Our AI guidelines include a "Start of a conversation" approach for suspected AI beyond expectations for the reasons outlined here + more. Being wrongly accused of academic dishonesty is an awful position to put a student in. #EduSky #AiEDU 🧵 www.edweek.org/technology/w...

Let’s break down 4 myths about AI in education and look at AI as an intentional tool for teachers and students. #EduSky #EduSkyAI #AiEDU mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/myth-vs-re...

Myths about AI in education are everywhere—but what’s the reality? 🤔 We break down the biggest misconceptions and what they really mean for teachers and students. #EduSky #EduSkyAI #AiEDU mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/myth-vs-re...

Two million views of a tweet a) accusing the NYT of "putting the lives of DOGE employees at risk" (... by naming the people running the government) b) accusing the NYT of "hiding the names" of its reporters from the public (... when they are listed, all 15 of them, right there on the page)

From @theathletic.bsky.social: Diana Taurasi is retiring after two decades on the court, three WNBA championships and six Olympic gold medals.

Claude 3.7, create a meme for crabs. Now create a meme for crabs by crabs. Now create a meme by an elderly crab that doesn’t get memes. Now create a meme by crabs set in 3020

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

Great stuff here

Good point here. Accessibility, differentiation… lots of teachers try to implement these fundamental practices but AI can speed us up greatly, winning back time and allowing us to focus on more students while serving more needs.

Excited to share my first essay for @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social Enhancing Feedback with AI: Making Feedback Clearer, More Meaningful, and More Human open.substack.com/pub/mindfula...

Giving students personalized feedback is hard—especially when time is short and plates are full. In our new post, discover how AI can make the feedback process faster, more in-depth, and more impactful. #EduSky #EduSkyAI #AiEDU ⛓️‍💥 mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/enhancing-...

I talked to three veteran teachers who have incorporated AI into their everyday practice. Here's how they use the emerging technology: www.edweek.org/technology/i... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #EdTech

As AI models grow in size, their values seem to increasingly converge on the same preferences, whether the model is made by OpenAI or Musk’s X or China’s DeepSeek Not everyone will like resulting AI preferences, so value engineering is likely to become a topic of discussion arxiv.org/abs/2502.08640

I actually do think the passive AI results in Google are really frustrating, like the ads that come above search results. Finding the best resource for the best answer is the real goal, and passive tools that complicate that effort are not useful, they’re harmful.

Come check out my first essay for this project, and please offer any feedback. I’d love to hear from you!

What can The Simpsons and Hank Azaria teach us about learning in the age of AI? Plenty. In our latest post, we explore "neck-up" learning—why it’s not enough, and how AI can help students become agents of their own learning. 👉 mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/going-beyo... #EduSky #AIEdu #EdTech

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I’ve stuck with teaching for nearly a decade because it’s honestly so much fun, and when I get into projects like this it’s because I’m having a really good time. I hope you’ll check out our Substack and our upcoming post about meaningful AI use in the classroom. #teaching #ai #edusky

I've found this to be true, but people might look at the inaccuracies and say "what's the point of using it then?" 1st, AI's only getting better. 2nd, creators like feedback loops and learners are the same. Multiple means of accessing/developing knowledge is a good thing and AI enables that. #EduSky

The more students and teachers understand about AI and its shortcomings, the more critical thinking they’ll practice in its use. Addressing AI Use Proactively in the Classroom https://buff.ly/3X2Od7s #AIinEdu #EduSky

Why Mindful AI? AI isn't magic—it is a tool. Follow us on Substack for more: mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/a-new-jour... #EduSky #AiEDU