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If you aren’t following Gary, you should be. His education mantra/mission/manifesto (about learners and instructors) can be written in accessible sized script on a cocktail napkin Less Us, More Them I know this because I learned at the feet of Dr. Stager . And of course, with a mission like “less us, more them,” you’re not learning at anyone’s feet…you’re creating and developing and debating and iterating and constructing. So when one of the luminaries of computing as a tool for learning sounds the alarm on where the impact of learning is headed in, as he puts it, hysterical direction, it’s worth considering what the actual pushback is coding. If the net result of eliminating screens and testing kindergartners for math proficiency is more worksheets and test prep, the measurable loss will be to those most dedicated to student proficiency: the progressive and learning-centered pedagogies of the last 50 years.

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An inside look at AI-powered Maestro University exposes a pattern of policy failures, potential legal violations, and widespread frustration among students—acting as a warning sign for higher education.

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On June 4, I organized a convening of twenty faculty, five PhD students, and two teaching and learning experts at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center to spend a day on the question that I’ve been working on for the past several months: how should we teach statistics and quantitative methods...

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As his new novel is published, the US author talks about nurturing the next generation of creatives, debating Sam Altman – and why he writes on a boat in San Francisco Bay

The Siri AI system prompt has leaked online – here's the introduction. Make sure to find it and read it yourself.

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Does an unexpected correlation between ChatGPT and thinking skills upend current narratives about the dangers of AI? You be the judge.

Most of the settings that let AI companies train on your data are switched on the day you sign up, and off only if you go and find them. That is the absence of a no, dressed up as consent. I pulled together the current 2026 opt-outs, verified against each company's own help pages, because most guides online are already out of date. Google quietly split its controls in September 2025. Claude started training on consumer chats in August 2025 after years of refusing to. Five switches worth flipping today: - Google: untick 'Save Media' and turn off Gemini 'Keep Activity' - LinkedIn: turn off 'Data for Generative AI Improvement' - X: untick the Grok training box under Privacy and safety - ChatGPT: turn off 'Improve the model for everyone' - Claude and Copilot: check the toggle, the default flipped to on in 2025 Anything already scraped into a finished model is baked in. The toggles protect tomorrow's data. Yesterday's is already gone. The full guide, with every menu path and the honest limits, is in the full Substack post: https://lnkd.in/ezAZk9P6 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataPrivacy #CriticalAILiteracy #AILiteracy #DataProtection #SlowAI #DigitalRights #ChatGPT #PrivacyMatters

Commentary on Down the Web Rabbit Hole With a Hammerhand by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

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Last year, someone (specifically, OUP) asked me to write an encyclopedia entry for "AI". I've just finished reviewing the copy edits, so hopefully it will be in the world soon. Meanwhile, a teaser: "The term “AI” resists definition because it is continually reappropriated by people to mean different things. This, in turn, means that discussions of AI that do not provide working definitions for the purposes at hand risk incoherence. [...] Accordingly, this article does not provide a definition of the term “AI” but rather explores various ways in which the idea of AI has been used to organize how people understand our world, allocate resources, and relate to each other." 1. AI Is a Research Field 2. AI Is an Approach to Cognitive Science 3. AI Is a Parlor Trick 4. AI Is an Ideology 5. AI Is a Way to Hide and Devalue Human Labor 6. AI Is a Way to Shift Accountability 7. AI Is a Way to Centralize Power In the end, this was a fun project to work on, especially through the readings I got to revisit (and sometimes read for the first time) in the process. | 55 comments on LinkedIn

66K likes, 343 comments - npr on June 11, 2026: "Dave Eggers warns young people not to silence their own unique voices by letting AI speak for them.⁠ ⁠ On this week’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin, Eggers talks about living a varied creative life.⁠ ⁠ Watch the full interview at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ Host: @rachelnpr • Rachel Martin/NPR⁠ Producers: Summer Thomad and Alicia Zheng/NPR".

I have built 20+ AI agents and 15 systems with Claude. Here are 5 tips to build with Claude better than 99% of people. Each one is a real build.

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