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I have a new paper out with Dr Lucy Newby in Teaching in Higher Education (open access!) It’s an historical and conceptual critique of the theory of Constructive Alignment, which is the hegemonic pedagogical framework in European higher education today. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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My colleagues and I decided we would pull together a tracker of all the education-related activity of the new administration so far and uh, it's a lot. Did we forget something? (probably.) You can email [email protected] or my Signal address is cas.37. hechingerreport.org/tracking-tru...

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Don’t believe the hype. AI myths and the need for a critical approach in higher education journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.p... #AIEd #EdTech

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Changing conspiracy theory beliefs is very hard, but a replicated finding shows a short chat with GPT-4 changes people’s belief in conspiracy theories for the long term. Why? It isn’t rhetorical tricks, it's that AI provides relevant facts and evidence tailored to each person's specific beliefs.

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35 lesser-known scaffolding techniques to kickstart the learning process, from @toddfinley.bsky.social 🔥👇 Which scaffolding strategies have you used already? Which would you like to try? #EduSky #EdChat

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The silliness of using AI to prevent students from cheating with AI (from tinyurl.com/3fr88n7z). And my own, longer (pre-AI) take on what really underlies academic cheating: www.alfiekohn.org/article/whos...

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Earning Our AI Literacy License - www.facultyfocus.com/articles/tea... #AIinEducation

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Education scholar friends: People don’t necessarily understand the value of education research in the same intuitive way they understand the value of research into cancer, etc. Drop examples of high-impact edu research in the thread below. #edusky apple.news/Atlzcr6jARYG...

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Vibe is an #OpenSource desktop client (mac, windows, linux) for locally running Whisper to more accurately transcribe or caption videos & audio thewh1teagle.github.io/vibe/ Source code: github.com/thewh1teagle... #Accessibility #AI #EdTech #A11y

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Lower AI Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity thearf-org-unified-admin.s3.amazonaws.com/MSI_Report_2... "people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical & experience feelings of awe in the face of AI’s execution of tasks" #AIEd #EdTech

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Looking for ways to teach kids how to use #AI critically and analytically? Looking for assessment designs that push students to use AI in a responsible and thoughtful way? I'm sharing stories from educators around how they are evaluating student interactions with AI. See below! shorturl.at/rE1SS

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Here is Tülu 3 405B 🐫 our open-source post-training model that surpasses the performance of DeepSeek-V3! It demonstrates that our recipe, which includes RVLR scales to 405B - with performance on par with GPT-4o, & surpassing prior open-weight post-trained models of the same size including Llama 3.1.

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One big (replicated!) finding on AI doesn’t get enough attention: existing systems like GPT-4 can alter deeply held beliefs using logic & discussion, not manipulation. A short conversation with AI greatly reduce conspiracy theory beliefs (hard to do!) & the effects last months.

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Accessibility doesn't only help a small group of people. Accessibility helps everyone

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A few new books on #StudentSuccess: * Transforming the Gateway Course Experience gardnerinstitute.org/news-resourc... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlEU... * High-Impact Course Design Institutes www.routledge.com/Developing-H... * Teaching for Retention www.routledge.com/Teaching-for... #EdDev

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“Woven in”: Mental Health and College Graduation Rates journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Some other related resources: pressbooks.hccfl.edu/teaching/cha... #HigherEd #MentalHealth #StudentSuccess

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Generative AI for Education Hub: Searchable Research Study Repository scale.stanford.edu/genai/reposi... #AIEd #EdReseach #EdTech

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Manu Kapur has a new book about Productive Failure: www.productivefailure.com You can watch a video about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv95... or read articles on his site www.manukapur.com/publications/ #Teaching #EdDev #LearningSciences #EdResearch

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Review of Teaching for Retention: Strategies to Ignite #StudentSuccess in #HigherEd journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... There are also free support materials on the publisher site: www.routledge.com/Teaching-for... More on student success strategies: bit.ly/studentsucce... #EdDev #Teaching

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Check out this new pub on teaching evals @ #RIHE: #JuliaMendzheritskaya #NicolaMaier and #MiriamHansen conduct an experimental vignette study to explore how educators incorporate students' feedback--especially negative evaluations--into their teaching. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

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Hi all! @newslit.org is my go-to for all things media literacy. www.rumorguard.org/post/califor... They should have a kabajillion followers. Please help boost their account. Please help stop the spread of disinformation and misinformation.

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I think often about this experiment at Harvard showing active learning upped test scores by 33%... but students thought they were learning more from non-active lectures The problem: being challenged is the key to learning BUT we hate challenges, they are hard & make you realize how little you know.

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TeacherServer is a free site with hundreds of mini #AI tools for #teachers in #K12 & #HigherEd teacherserver.com Created by a USF #education professor www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2024/pr... For more AI teaching resources & tips, see this handout: bit.ly/teachchatgpt #EdTech #EduSky

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Explore the best 5 alternatives to Microsoft Flip (formerly Flipgrid) for teachers. MirrorTalk AI Gravity IO Padlet Screencastify Submit Vimeo + Figma https://s.mtrbio.com/zquqngfifo #EduSky

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Some #OpenSource #EdTech (related) tools: * ClassQuiz polling tool classquiz.de * Anytype #PKM anytype.io * OATutor Adaptive Tutoring www.oatutor.io * PocketPal #LLM on your phone github.com/a-ghorbani/p... * ActivityWatch time tracker activitywatch.net * Liascript liascript.github.io & H5P h5p.org

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How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

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What percentage of students are you willing to falsely accuse of cheating with AI? There is a trade-off between false accusations and detection rates for AI. At a 10% false positive rate, detectors find 80% or less of AI content. At a 1% rate most find 60% or less. Don’t trust AI detectors!

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A study in American Educational Research Journal examined the state of the US K-12 teaching profession, finding the current state of the teaching profession is at or near its lowest levels in 50 years. journals.sagepub.com/stoken/defau...

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Amen. "Giving kids agency doesn’t mean letting them do whatever they want. It doesn’t mean lowering expectations, turning education into entertainment or allowing children to choose their own adventure. It means..." (1/2) https://buff.ly/40lBAGN

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my 75+ text OER Annotated Bibliography on Belonging in Education is live! it's the academic foundation underpinning my sabbatical Belonging Project: bonstewart.com/belonging/th... if you know of a book/paper on belonging that would enrich this collection, let me know :)

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Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/ #AI #education #literacy

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Are educators falling behind the AI curve? futureofbeinghuman.com/p/are-educat...

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Institutional Profiling for Educational Development: Identifying Which Conditions for Student Success to Address in a Given Educational Setting—A Case Study journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #EdDev #StudentSuccess #Retention #OpenAccess

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If you think you are ‘just not a math person’ then think again psyche.co/ideas/if-you... Bring "mathematics into familiar, low-stakes situations, where the focus is on practical application and curiosity rather than performance" #MathEducation #MathEd #Teaching #EdDev #STEMeducation #EduSky #EdPsy

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An early Christmas present for me, and some light reading for your holiday: my latest paper has just been published, taking a critical look at the educational value of large-class lectures doi.org/10.1080/1356...

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Beyond Visual Limits: Systems Thinking for the Visually Impaired Using Generative AI https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/ijr/vol7/iss1/5 #AI #accessibility

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Recently saw an article on @chronicle.com, centering the entirely wrong thing. It's about damn time for colleges to prioritize content accessibility. 🔥 And I resent those wanting to wait for Trump to deregulate. Choosing to wait is choosing to discriminate. ashleemboyer.com/blog/college...

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Calculus has been used to filter out students for decades. Example: Calculus for a New Century: A Pump, Not a Filter (1987) eric.ed.gov?id=ED300252 85% of calculus exam questions just involve rote memorization link.springer.com/article/10.1... #MathEd #HigherEd #STEMEducation

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College completion remains of utmost importance. Increasing completion rates equips the next generation of workers to succeed, keeps the US globally competitive, and makes student loans more manageable for those who who wish to pursue a postsecondary credential. www.theheagroup.com/blog/college...

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New @ #RIHE: #LiFeng et al. explore the Learning Assistant (LA) Model and differences between LA-adopting and non-LA adopting institutions in terms of STEM student retention and graduation rates. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

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This study found that part-time transfer students were "less likely to report engaging in collaborative learning or high-impact practices," which was not the case for nontransfer part-time students: https://buff.ly/3Btmp4t #highered @kquest #AcademicSky

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A Linkless Internet

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NEW POST: What is the Pedagogy of the Depressed? It's what happens when you sit through three online "AI for educators" courses as I have recently. open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...

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This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.) www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

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