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The AI revolution is integrating chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT into all aspects of life, from education to friendship, so Ronny Chieng fights the dumbing ef...

Most of us in higher education are now familiar with generative AI bots, where you formulate a prompt and get a reply. Yet, we are now beginning the advancement to agentic AI, the autonomous 24-7 project manager.

h/t Jose Bowen on LinkedIn

This piece builds on earlier reflections I’ve shared about responsible, transparent and learning-focused use of AI in SACE assessments, extending that thinking into the wider question of how we gather trustworthy evidence of learning. A few weeks ago, in a curriculum meeting, a HASS (Humanities and

The emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has prompted considerable discussion within the research community. Despite their centrality, students’ perspectives remain underexplored....

When it comes to the future of assessment, I think it's all right for faculty to create buckets. ---------- Bucket 1: Short-term changes that get us thorugh the day, the week, or the month. We can revise assessments by grounding them in other modules or in-class activities, using multimedia, or including a synchronous component. Maybe these end up being band-aids. That's all right. Band-aids are useful. ---------- Bucket #2: Long-term changes These are things like shifting to process-focused assignments, creating a culture of transparency, or shifting to alternative assessment. I think they'll have longer shelflives. But they take a while to set up. ******************** We can't do everthing all at once. I think it's perfectly all right to do small changes that get us through the semester, and recognize that we'll need bigger, more systemic changes down the road. That's what I talked about during my keynote at San Diego Community College District. We talked about how to manage those buckets. It's a key part of the conversation, because on surefire way to create change paralysis is to say "change everything about what you teach, right now."

A tutorial on how to use the just-launched Microsoft Teach Module — an AI-powered tool built into all versions of Microsoft 365 for Education. The Teach Modu...

You're probably using AI all wrong. 🤯As a @MasterClass instructor, I teach people how to future-proof their careers, and it's not about fancy prompts. It's ...

Voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot is transforming the way we work with Copilot—turning it into a true thought partner that helps you stay focused and productive...

My experience with AI-amplified coding is not primarily about doing something I already know how to do faster.

“As you may have noticed, it is not easy to build data centers here on Earth.”

Edtech often gets a bad wrap, and for good reason.

One of the best things I took away from Karen Costa and Niya Bond's webinar on asynchronous online learning in the AI era yesterday was that we cannot "fix" the AI problem.

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Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.

With the other personalities, you’re choosing between flavors of bullshit. With Efficient, you’re choosing no bullshit.

"Assessment and feedback inspires and assures student learning""Formative, instant feedback, repeatable, and evaluative judgement - that's FIRE"In this 36th episode of The Opposite of Cheating Podcast, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Quality & Integrity at Western Sydney University Cath Ellis discusses the evolution of educational integrity in Australia, the role of regulatory frameworks like TEQSA, and how scandal and data paved the way for institutional change. She introduces Western Sydney's Inspire and Assure (IA) Approach to assessment, which is their refinement of the “two-lane” model talked about by Danny Liu in Episode 28, to center faculty on the importance of inspiring learning and assuring assessment validity. Cath shares practical strategies for identifying “enrolled persons” who may not be doing their own work, like oral assessments, and the need to build student capacity while holding institutions accountable for fairness and transparency. She also unpacks the matrix model for assessment reform and…

"I had one friend who told a colleague that he was going across campus to an Al workshop, and the other professors said, 'Don't, we're leading a boycott against the workshop.' Okay. I mean, I don't remember that kind of thing happening with Wikipedia or other tools for online learning..." For me at least, it's pretty simple. People are using these tools, and they are using them poorly. We are educators and if we can teach them to use them more effectively we should. If we refuse to do that, where we end up as a society is at least a little bit on us. But I disagree with Bryan a bit. We went through this before in miniature. In 2010 I was trying to convince people in civic education conferences we should teach people to use social media more effectively, including checking things online. The most common response "We shouldn't be teaching social media, we should be telling students to subscribe to physical newspapers instead." Those students we could have taught that year are thirty-five now. We could have had 15 cohorts of college students knowing how to check the truth of what they see online. Our entire history might be different, and maybe we wouldn't be seeing this rampant conspiracism. The thing is those professors who said we should just give students physical papers will never realize their role in getting us here. I wish others would consider that history before they treat boycotts of AI workshops like a noble act. When you engage in politics you are judged by results, not intentions. And the results of this approach are not risk free.

A billionaire tech guru openly mocked Leo's call for moral AI — and quickly backtracked after backlash. It’s a telling collision of Silicon Valley hubris with a pope they cannot buy, bully, or ignore.

We reason about a a study showing chocolate improves memory.

Guiding university staff in making informed decisions about using GenAI software.

The anticipation surrounding GPT-5 created a dizzying buzz among tech enthusiasts who were obsessed with the idea that true artificial intelligence, known as AGI, was imminent.

Designed for Education, Useful for Everyone

Welcome to EduGems! This is a growing collection of pre-made prompts ("Gems") for educators to use with Google Gemini. 💎 Click on any item below to get details on that Gem, with options to use or copy the Gem. 💎 When you click to use a Gem, it will open in Gemini. 💎 Before you begin interacting

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

What matters most is where you're going to spend the margin