" 97% of people can’t tell the difference between fully AI-generated and human made music" 97% failed to ID fully AI-generated tracks. 71% "were surprised"; 52% "uncomfortable by not being able to tell the difference." newsroom-deezer.com/2025/11/deez... #AIEd #AILiteracy #EduSky

Threw my hat in the ring to give a talk on the importance of #AI in #teachereducation curriculum at an international conference. Keep your fingers crossed. Should find out at the end of the month. #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

Why do Americans get news from news influencers?

Publicly available social media data may appear low-risk, but it raises complex privacy questions, writes @annalenhart.bsky.social. A new report, “Performing in Autonomy Theater: Perspectives of High Profile Figures,” explores this issue and outlines ethical guidelines for researchers to follow.

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy by Prof. Solove and Prof. Hartzog - FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #PrivacyMatters

Something I need to read—but probably every graduate/researcher/others relying on #AI for data interpretation…. #AIEd #EduSky

Toy Story 5’s Villain is a Tablet, The Irony! www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/toy-sto... #digitalliteracy #onlineparenting #onlinesafety #righttechrighttime

After #SCAET & learning about #Suno, I created a course anthem from my current syllabus & my students asked me to upload to our LMS. Lyrics created with ChatGPT first. Here's the song via our Yuja server. If you can't access it, let me know: viu.video.yuja.com/V/Video?v=12... #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd

One of my students just showed me #Google #Flow because he knew I had a Pro account & he used it for a video project in my #VIUEd class. Just logged in & looking through the “starter projects” Wild! #AI #video #AIEd

Youth and Teens Deserve the Truth About Online Risks - Why We Stand Strong On Our Messaging! thewhitehatter.ca/post/youth-a... #DigitalLiteracy #OnlineSafety #onlineparenting #pavetheway

And who thinks young children can’t code? Great eg!

Don’t Confuse “Uncomfortable” with “Unsafe”: Helping Youth and Teens Navigate the Onlife World www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/don-t-c... #digitalliteracy #onlineparenting #parenting #onlinesafety

Here's my 2nd custom #GPT (#ChatGPT 5.0+): The "Hess Rigor Maximizer" for folks at SC EdTech onference #scaet25. SC & SREB are looking to use #AI in #education to increase cognitive rigour in student work. Upload a lesson plan & get feedback. #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd chatgpt.com/g/g-68f9219e...

Bringing the practice…before coming to present here in SC, I reached out to the local Indigenous people, the Waccamaw through their website form to see if they had a particular land acknowledgment protocol. I didn’t hear back & it was clear on my first day of the conference…

The faculty at UCLA, itself currently under austerity measures due to a nebulous and unresolved budget crisis, have just received a message that "ChatGPU Edu" is now available to faculty and staff "for purchase at a specially negotiated price." Do I work at a university?

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Today’s Youth Are the First Generation Growing Up With AI: The Canary In The AI Coal Mine. This reality presents both strong opportunities & significant risks to youth and teens that parents, caregivers, & educators should be aware of. thewhitehatter.ca/post/today-s... #DigitalLiteracy

@ my #AIEd & #teacher #professionalism session @SC EdTech conference today, I framed resistance to learn about & teach #AI as a ‘long tail’ equity issue that will impact #k12 students job & post-secondary opportunities & that there is a moral & ethical imperative to prepare them. #EduSky #BCEd

Getting prepped for my #SCAET #scaet25 on #AIEd & #teacher #professionalism . Presenting at 3:30.

Great 1st day @ #SCAET #scaet25 at Myrtle Beach. Attended some great sessions on #privacy to expand my limited experience w/ #FERPA & #COPPA —despite some key nuances, #BCFIPPA ,data minimization, security & safety of PII very similar. My #NBLM NotebookLM session went REALLY well #EduSky #AIEd #BCEd

Upon rocking up to first day of #SCAET #scaet2025 I encountered this outside the convention center: Excellent omen. 🍁 Presenting at 2 pm in Rm 202.

Julia is one of those subject matter experts that we highly respect. If you're a school, or teachers union looking for a presenter who know their stuff & presents from an evidence based perspective on the topic of AI integration into education, connect with her, you will not be disappointed

On my way to deliver my 2 sessions at #scaet25 #SCAET in Myrtle Beach, SC on #AI in #education & to soak up lots of good info from others sessions! My sessions below… #AIEd #BCEd

I was a recent guest on this podcast talking about #AI in #Education. Feel free to listen: wordpress.viu.ca/ciel/2025/10... #AIEd #EduSky #BCEd #VIU

🤯 1 of my students with a #Google watch showed me the new #Gemini app with voice integration. 1) Educators are NOT prepared for this level of #AI access/integration; 2) this manifests the disparate experience of & access to #AI & tech due to #socioeconomic status

Very excited that my second session proposal for #SCAET #scaet25 -this one for #NotebookLM Educators’ workshop on using this great #AI tool from #Google —will be added to the schedule ! 👍

For my #scaet25 presentation, been playing with building #agentic #AI to address #SREB call for using #AI tools to increase cognitive rigor for #lessonplans & activities along DOK3 & 4 in #HessCognitiveRigor matrix —but without an institutional tool. static.pdesas.org/content/docu...

Increasing acceleration of #technology advances in the last 20 years have strained traditional practices & approaches to #education #policy —which, by nature of the institution is conservative when it comes to change & is not accustomed to dynamic orientations to policy-making. #EduSky #AIEd

When in the #EdTech field— especially around #AIEd —it is important to have some familiarity with what is happening not only in your own —or nearby—jurisdiction—as well as your national landscape—but leaders should also be intentionally scanning the broader international landscape. #EduSky #BCEd

Even ‘super users’ of #EdTech need to be reminded of the higher stakes of #privacy & #copyright when using #AI —along with its limitations we often cite—bias, accuracy, data provenance—but also the social and environmental impacts that often get overlooked. #AIEd #EduSky

The importance of access to institutional #AI tools under contracts or licenses for educators who want to use #AI cannot be overstated—nor can adequate grounding in #professionalism #privacy #copyright with ProD training on those tools. #AIEd #EduSky

My agentic #AI & #FPPL #instructionaldesign project will have a small place on our #VIUEd poster at the upcoming symposium by the Assoc of Canadian Deans of Education in at #UBC in Vancouver #BCEd #ABCDE #EduSky Project is in its infancy but am excited about it.

Been experimenting with agentic #AI tools to build a semantic #instructionaldesign tool to help build a cognitive/semantic bridge for non- #Indigenous educators trained in #ID to connect & implement #BC First People’s Principles of Learning #FPPL #BCEd #EduSky

Been experimenting with emerging personal agentic #AI tools that don’t require coding or hosting beyond accounts with my regular #LLMs — #Gemini #Gems & now custom #GPTs with #ChatGPT as instructional supports. #AIEd #EduSky

I am so excited to be attending #SCAET #scaet25 this year & presenting on #professionalism & #AIEd . edtech.scaet.org has so many excellent looking sessions. I will have a hard time deciding what to attend outside of my session.

Been dark here for a while—had a lot going on but all good now. Tending to family health—luckily was looking after others & they are literally on their feet again—then school started—and well here I am again👍

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