www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d... - argues that institutions are institutions are "not investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... - our universities struggle, staff and students suffer, yet these guys are swimming in Scrooge McDuck-esque pools of profit....

@emilyehoyle.substack.com fascinating lecture at York yesterday Emily. Wondered whether you have come across Cyberselfish www.thenerdreich.com/paulina-bors... and also the discourse on techbros either misunderstanding or trying make dystopian scifi real?: www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech....

codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day... What “Smart” Really Means: “Smart” often implies a lack of control “Cheap” signifies compromised security “Convenience” often involves hidden surveillance The Golden Rule: Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices Treat them as strangers in your home

@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social you may want to check these out Yanis - pretty sure this is not you on this channel: youtu.be/GRXKavRIBN8?... - 16:15 you seem to develop a Canadian accent!

"platform-driven bureaucratic processes, although seemingly mundane, reconfigure teacher-student interactions, redistribute pedagogical authority, and introduce complex layers of administrative work into everyday schooling" doi.org/10.1080/1743...

youtu.be/aByWLQ7h2n0 #aiappeasment anyone? I can't even trust myself not to get distracted when working online - if my kids are on a laptop trying to do homework most of the time I check, they are doing something else. If they have a book/paper exercise, they happily get on with it...

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... @kaiserkuo.bsky.social - sure you know this story already but worth a read - a parallel narrative to Feifei Li's excellent autobiography...love the thought of fire side salons keeping the intellectual embers going during the Cultural Revolution...

Two Dancers, 1949, by Salvador Dali

“Educational technology has become, in its ontological infrastructures, increasingly centralised, less open and more powerful. Through GenAI, it is less truthful, less trustworthy and more epistemologically nihilistic.” @eam0.bsky.social & @steviegow.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our open-access AIED commentary is out "Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings" 🙏 Goerge Veletsianos, Victoria I. Marín, Stefan Hrastinski, Ahmed Tlili, Henk Huijser, Sharon Altena, Giselle Ferreira and Jason McDonald open-publishing.org/journals/ind...

Beginning to put some details on my visit to NZ in November for #ISSOTL. Going to spend a bit of time in Aus too. Anyone want me to come visit and talk about our work? Hidden Curriculum, belonging, assessment and curriculum design…

@davidmusgrave.bsky.social Enjoyed your INRAP session today, then found this: "...if the economy can't tell that we swapped out a human with an AI, well, that's what AGI is." centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/agi-beyond...

When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

An absolute must watch: youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?... - we need to end Technological Appeasement.

Join the excellent Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier - two full-time Academic Skills Advisers. jobs.napier.ac.uk/mthrprod_web...

Good morning. To foreshadow a project at KIng's where we are collecting examples from across faculties of modified assessments I have begun collecting a few from elsewhere. Is it about AI or is it just about better assessment? Some are former; some the latter I think. mcompton.uk/2025/03/24/a...

www.studentxgenai.co.uk/genai-digest... - some useful GenAI and education resources so far this year.

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

A judge has ruled against Ross Intelligence, an AI company, in their case against Thomson Reuters. It's the first major AI fair use decision. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/11/j... #Copyright #FairUse #AI #ThomsonReuters #Westlaw

academicintegrity.org/resources/bl... My new post on the ICAI Blog: What do new transparency and surveillance tools mean for the delicate dance of trust in universities in the era of AI? #academicintegrity