Here's a fun facepalm Friday article for why AI literacy matters. Save your marriage! www.vice.com/en/article/w... "AI isn’t sentient. It doesn’t understand coffee. It can’t see guilt in a stain. But it can reflect back whatever fear, suspicion, or fantasy you bring to it."

It was a great pleasure to be on the #HERDSA2025 panel on AI this afternoon. I thought I'd post direct links to the resources I mentioned as good ways to keep up with and make sense of genAI in education. Just a few picks to get you started - there are so many amazing people in this space.

Can't wait for this event, we've got some great speakers and it will be great to meet with third space colleagues from institutions across Perth

TELedvisors Network@teledvisors.bsky.social · last yr.

The program is now available for next week's TELedvisor's WA meetup! http://bit.ly/4eokT2y Haven't registered yet? It's not too late, but you'll need to get in quick as we only have a few spots left: events.humanitix.com...

If you live in Perth and work in the third space, we’d love to hear how you are meeting the challenge of #AI in assessment. Submit a pecha kucha proposal to share a practice-based example at our WA meetup: forms.gle/JZ5QCbkUxn... Call for proposals close 16 June!

Call for Pecha Kucha Presenters - TELedvisors SIG WA Meetup - Meeting the challenge of AI and assessment

Join us at WA's first TELedvisors meetup on 11 July 2025 at ECU Mt Lawley to explore AI and assessment challenges. Pecha Kucha Format: 20 slides × 20 seconds each = 6 minutes 40 seconds total. Slides auto-advance, keeping presentations dynamic and engaging. Presentations should focus on practical examples or case studies of meeting the challenge of AI in assessment in their work area. Suggested Topics: Adapting assessment design Responding to AI-related academic integrity cases Integrating new learning technologies Supporting staff with AI literacy or policy development Curriculum adaptation Student education around AI use / AI literacy Learning design strategies that work with AI Share your practical experiences, challenges, and solutions with fellow third space practitioners. Submissions close: 16 June 2025 Presenters must be able to attend the event and present in person. Please ensure you have registered for the event on Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/teledvisors-wa-meetup-meeting-the-challenge-of-ai-in-assessment-2025

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Our first WA Meetup is taking place on Fri 11 July, and we'd love to see you there! A chance to network and share practice in meeting the challenge of AI in assessment. Learn more and register: events.humanitix.com/teledvisors-...

TELedvisors WA Meetup - Meeting the Challenge of AI in Assessment

Join WA's first TELedvisors meetup to tackle AI and assessment challenges in higher education.

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Google’s Veo 3 model with audio generation is pretty astonishing. It also introduces a new landmark in the uncanny valley… so many awkward pauses. #AI

“Stories are the antidote to bias”, Sisonke Msimang on the power of connection at #THETA2025

Missed last week's webinar on how to influence as third space practitioners? Catch up with the recording: youtu.be/_MhrbnBPZzg

TELedvisors Webinar 1st May 2025 - How to influence as Third Space Practitioners

Third space practitioners in the higher education sector often navigate complex collaboration challenges when driving change projects. We often work without formal authority, making it difficult to lead initiatives. We must build informal leadership skills and foster relationships across various fa

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Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

YouTube video by Anthropic

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An entire generation of students will come of age within this generative era. Does anyone believe their exposure to the technology as a cheating tool, deepfake generator, or a creepy simulator of human voices and avatars will lead them to view it positively? open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...

The Chatbot Generation

An entire generation of students will come of age within this generative era. Does anyone believe their exposure to the technology as a cheating tool, deepfake generator, or a creepy simulator of huma...

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Latest Tachyon post is out, in which I experiment with 'vibe coding' 10 different apps and games and reflect on the experience. Includes links to try each one for yourself. #AI open.substack.com/pub/tachyon/...

Summoning software

An exploration of vibe coding to make apps and games

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Looking forward to next week's @teledvisors.bsky.social webinar - probably the most on-brand theme possible: "Working in the Higher Education Third Space". Great presenters, important topic. Register for free! ascilite.org/events/teled...

Great post from @marcwatkins.bsky.social thinking through the downstream consequences of expanding the use of survellience tools like progress tracking in response to genAI in education

Marc Watkins@marcwatkins.bsky.social · last yr.

Faculty are burning out not just because of AI, but because we're trying to maintain educational models that were designed for a different era. The path forward isn't more sophisticated tracking of keystrokes, but more purposeful and meaningful engagement with students about why and how they write.

No Dispatch this week. I'm working on a bigger post about Claude Artifacts and Simtheory's Create with Code feature.

In this week's Dispatch: - Collaborative GenAI trials in HE - Unpacking the Microsoft AI and critical thinking paper - An experiment in getting AI to fact check AI open.substack.com/pub/tachyon/... #AI #education

Dispatch 004

Collaborative GenAI Trials | AI and critical thinking | Experiment in AI fact-checking AI

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I just received a snail mail letter confirming my request to receive all communications electronically

It’s all over for Humane AI Pin. So much hype, so little it could actually do. At least we got some of most entertaining tech reviews of all time out of it. Also the weirdest launch video ever. www.theverge.com/gadgets/6151...

The Humane AI Pin never had a chance

The Humane AI Pin is dead — and may have taken the AI gadget industry down with it

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An important reminder of the uncomfortable truth for online education post-genAI from @cathellis13.bsky.social and @molliedollin.bsky.social - futurecampus.com.au/2025/02/18/t... #AI #education

The Real Cost of Convenience: Online Learning’s Moment of Truth

Last week, Future Campus reported on comments made during a closed-door meeting, where a TEQSA representative prompted the...

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Recordings for the 2025 AI in Higher Education Symposium now available! Lots of great sessions, each video only 12 mins long. educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au/teaching@syd... #AI #education

In this week's Dispatch: - Finding tasks for and with AI - Critical friends - Audrey Watters and Helen Beetham on air open.substack.com/pub/tachyon/... #AI #productivity #education

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Tasks for and with AI | Critical friends

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@annamillsoer.bsky.social on how she has updated her thinking on #AI detection tools based on the evolving literature and her professional experience. She concisely explains how it can play a useful (if small) role as part of a principled assessment practice. annamills.substack.com/p/why-im-usi...

Why I'm using AI detection after all, alongside many other strategies

I'm incorporating Turnitin alongside process tracking, writing process assignments, social annotation, lots of student choice, peer review and tutoring, video assignments, and more.

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Keeping up with AI is exhausting and it can be hard to figure out what the significant developments are amid all the constant releases and hype. That's why I made this interactive timeline for my workshop at #WATLF2025. Now available for anyone to explore: miro.com/app/board/uX... #AI #education 1/

WATLF 2025 What's New, ChatGPT?

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Alessandro Rigolon@alerigolon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.

Anthropic has just released the Anthropic Economic Index, which is really all about the tasks that people perform with Claude. Computer science by far the most common job type. /1 #AI #productivity #education

Heading to Sydney for AI in HE Symposium 2025. So many good sessions on the program, it’s going to be hard to pick what to see. At least the decision is made for my preso slot! Still time to register to attend online: educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au/teaching@syd... #AI #HE

A sneak peak at the (almost finished) Miro board for my workshop tomorrow at #WATLF2025. This will be the main activity - an interactive timeline of major developments in generative #AI from the release of ChatGPT in Nov 2022 to now. Kind of hard to believe all of this is just from the past 2 years.

New year, new newsletter format. In this post: upcoming conferences, comparing AI voice modes, ChatGPT Tasks for language learning, and ofc DeepSeek. Sprinkled with a dash of silliness. Enjoy. #AI #technology #education #HE tachyon.substack.com/p/dispatch-001

Dispatch 001

A new format for a new year

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The sport section label in my (formerly) local second hand bookshop in Melbourne. Sick burn from the owner, I mean if you must have a sports section in your shop…

The exchange between @caseynewton.bsky.social and @garymarcus.bsky.social on AI scepticism is perfect material for dialectic synthesis. Take the thesis (www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-...), add the antithesis (garymarcus.substack.com/p/hard-forke...) and draw your own conclusion/synthesis. 1/5

The phony comforts of AI skepticism

It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous

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Folks, now that @timnitgebru.bsky.social is here I want to encourage you all to check out the *extended* critical AI starter pack because it’s got some stellar recent additions :) go.bsky.app/B2kmVWg