Worth the read…“What this means is that, by the time a foreigner cleans his #socialmedia in preparation for a trip to the U.S., as much of our news media has been urging us to do, it may already be too late”. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Anyone researching the extent to which ‘average people’ (no training or expertise in counselling or therapy) are using #GenAI for personal counseling or coaching? #AIEd #EduSky #AI

Just learned a new term: “audience capture”. It’s when “content creators… give their followers more of what they want, which leads to more engagement”; “It’s the idea that influencers become radicalized by their audience…” from recent Men’s Health article on Dr Drew Pinsky

I submitted 2 #AI - themed sessions for the South Carolina Association for Educational Technology Conference for 2025. Will see if they are interested in either.... #SCAET #AIEd #EduSky

In my first op-ed for @nytimes.com, I argue that the alliance between Silicon Valley & the US government is a threat to democracy. The Republican tax bill now up in the Senate, which would ban states from regulating AI for a decade, will only cement that trajectory. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

#BCEd and Canadian Council of Ministers of Education should be looking at plans from Finland and EU for building societal capacity around #AI starting from early childhood edu through to adult. #BCEd curriculum needs serious updating around #digitalcitizenship and digital skills... #AEd #EduSky

Finland has the right idea here: National Agency for Education & Min of Education & Culture developing guidines for #AIEd from EARLY CHILDHOOD to upper secondary, vocational ed and training to adult ed. www.oph.fi/en/ai-guidel...

There is SO much capacity building that needs to happen around #AI at a range of levels: teachers & admin, students, parents/family, workers/employers, society at large...Where's the strategic plan, Canada? I think EU is ahead with their legislation & education initiatives. #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

Stay tuned, my feature article on #AI #professionalism with an AI use checklist was accepted for publication in College Matters, a publication of the College of Applied Biologists, British Columbia (cab-bc.org). More about CAB here cab-bc.org/about-the-co... Thank you for the opportunity, CAB. #AIEd

You can't point a student at an #AI tool or an #AI tool at a student and expect it to run like a Roomba on your kitchen floor. #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

Interesting piece: Establishing Reliability and Validity for a Survey Tool Testing Higher Education Teachers’ Intentions to Adopt Artificial Intelligence in Their Teaching Practices muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.viu.ca/pub/50/artic... #AIEd #highered #EduSky #BCEd

Uggh. Can anyone find the announcement for recent publication of Adopting Artificial Intelligence Tools in Higher Education: Teaching and Learning by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis? I just got access through my institutional library and am just taking a peek... #AIEd #EduSky #HigherEd #BCEd

Very good overview of #privacy vs #confidentiality of #NotebookLM by Wanderloots on #YouTube youtu.be/4JU75_v1So4... #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

In @thestar.com “Readers outraged after AI-generated 'summer reading list' featuring fake novels appears in U.S. newspapers: ‘This damages all of us’ The summer reading list, which was syndicated in the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, recommends several fake novels. #AI #AIEd #EduSky

Google's #Veo3 comes with highest $$ accounts: #AIUltra . This synthetic output is very convincing. Better buckle-up education system--misinformation is just about to get way more challenging...on the other hand, lots can be done with this creatively & for education. Sword of Damocles dangles...

@dleeming2.bsky.social Did you get a chance to grab copies of the #NotebookLM resources I posted at the #DigitalLearningSymposium25 ? If not let me know and I'll send you them. A bit of reciprocity for getting me started.

NOTE!!! Video Overviews coming soon to #Google #NotebookLM ... stay tuned. #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd #AI

New mobile app for #Google #NotebookLM blog.google/technology/a... #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd Woo-hoo!

Ever screencapture a slide from a presentation and wish you could just get the text in point form? You can if you upload the image to #ChatGPT and prompt "Extract the text from this image in point form" #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

Just found out about this VERY COOL #agenticAI & site created to address questions about #ResidentialSchools . Was watching the 5/8 keynote address from #DigitalLearningSymposium25. It's at the very end. #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

Very cool #AgenticAI created for settlerresponsibilities.ca “a GPT was created based on a request from Indigenous people that were receiving questions about residential schools that were very offensive, & they needed to send people somewhere where they didn't have to do that emotional labor”

Did you know that Google has an #AI #UI design tool called #Stitch ? It was specifically create for User Interface design. Will export to #Figma . www.theverge.com/news/670773/... #AIEd #EduSky #programming

Yikes! Google announces #Goolge #AIULtra at a MONTHLY INTRODUCTORY rate of $125 US/mo for the first 3 months and $250 each month thereafter. Rolling out in US first. www.theverge.com/news/670495/... #AIEd #EduSky

With the recent roll out of #NotebookLM 's multi-lingual output for the Audio Overviews ("Deep Dives"), students and educators can create a variety of audio resources in a target language to support listening and comprehension--especially in a non-native language. #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

and Leckie is right imo as someone who works on this stuff and is generally more favorable to them than you or her - www.science.org/stoken/autho... . They are summarization engines, not search engines - that you can RAG in search capabilities doesn't really change that.

My goodness, used #Gemini & #NotebookLM to level up my land acknowledgement slide for an upcoming presentation. It definitely improved on my text & I also used Gemini to generate #Alt-Text for the map I'm using.

Re. #AI tools for presentations--I like #Gamma for style, but with little to no #accessibility features, and an export to #PPT that doesn't come with any SlideMaster--it's not optimal. #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

If you can use AI you can generate Alt-Text for your images. Just asked Gemini 2.5 Pro to generate for a workshop image--and it gave me 3 options.

Posted presentation outline in .DOC & asked #Copilot to convert to PPT. Was given 10-15 min timeframe. #Gamma just slams it out--unpaid I have to do it in chunks but Oh so faster! Will wait to see what the output looks like from Copilot. I will say, Gamma slide decks looking pretty formulaic.

Preparing content for my #NotebookLM workshop in the upcoming Digital Learning Symposium BC conference www.dlsymp.ca I present online on 5/9--Friday morning. #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

🎮 Today, we filed a complaint against the video game company Ubisoft! 👉 Ubisoft forces its customers to connect to the internet when they launch a single-player game, which allows it to collect their gaming behaviour. Find out more here 👇 https://noyb.eu/en/play-alone-ubisoft-still-watching-you

#AIEd #EduSky Anyone know if there is a way to download a PDF from #notebooklm once you've already uploaded it into sources? Like can a collaborator download a copy that the owner uploaded?

@notebooklm.bsky.social Is there a way to download a PDF from #notebooklm once you've already uploaded it into sources? Like can a collaborator download a copy that the owner uploaded?

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #AmericanSignLanguage Day, the founding of the American School for the #Deaf in 1817 & #blind #mathematician Leonhard Euler. Listen & read transcript: disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/ep106/ #Hartford #CT #ASD #math #DeafGain #ASL #EduSky #history

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The quiet data breach hiding in AI workflows www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/04/14/q... #AI

Any #Brightspace #D2L users out there? When an organization mothball's your courses, and you want to export your content, where do you put it? Is there a platform where you can import it without cost? with cost? #EduSky #BCEd

Study suggests a third of cases are connected to auditory problems, far above the 19% suspected previously

Going to work on a #teachered / #ProD article with a colleague or two. Started my topical research "dive" --excuse the pun--with #Gemini #DeepSearch reports, #PerplexityAI output to a query. Had Perplexity output a references list--searched them up & found more on my own. Added those to #NotebookLM

One #AI tool I am paying for is #GeminiPlus . Initially did it to get the upgrade on #NotebookLM capabilities & source item limits per notebook, but now that I'm seeing output from #DeepSearch reports in Gemini--I'm feeling good about my spending. #AI #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

Very cool: Only noticing now that my version of #NotebookLM will generate expandable #mindmaps ! Wow. #AI #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

@vancouversun.bsky.social Who was ‘the relative of a colleague’ of BC Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon recently held at US border for 10 hours as mentioned in Alec Lazenby’s story 👇? What happened? I would like to hear that story too! vancouversun.com/news/gavin-n...

Meanwhile in #BCEd we can barely get #coding into any required elementary level curriculum—and even that starts at gr 4! China’s on to #AI . #EduSky #AIEd

China is introducing mandatory #AI classes for students aged 6 to 18, starting September 2025 “students will receive a minimum of eight hours of AI instruction each year, tailored to their age group” #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd technomag.co.zw/china-makes-...

#EduSky #AIEd We need to actively avoid a posture of academic shame by our students in explicitly accounting for using #AI when it’s permitted. Had a video submission where it was a narrated clip with text but like a US TV pharmaceutical ad disclaimer in intro….

Thinking about how keeping assignments Credit/Non Credit and focusing on the basic competencies you’re looking for might foster more risk taking by students #EduSky

#EduSky Think we agree on what makes for “good curriculum” ? Surveys say, “No” See www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Still marking my student video clips after a few days. Just spent THE most time responding to a submission--because the student took a tech risk & tried to do something a "new" way (no--not with AI). It didn't really work well--but it might with fine tuning & inspires me to look into it further.

“Canadian cities’ vulnerability to U.S. tariffs” from Canadian Chamber’s Business Data Lab—Nanaimo & Victoria,BC among least vulnerable 👍 businessdatalab.ca/publications...

What could an #AI prosthetic memory do for Alzheimer' and dementia patients? Anyone working in that field? #AIEd #EduSky