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Mica Mulloy@micamulloy.bsky.social · last yr.

I don't know that this saved me any time, but students got so much more individualized feedback than I ever could have generated on my own. Sometimes AI isn't about working less—it's about impact per hour invested 💪 🕰️. #EduSky #AIEdu #AIinEducation mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Sebastião Salgado, a celebrated Brazilian photographer whose striking images of humanity and nature in the Amazon rainforest and beyond won him some of the world’s top honors and made him a household name, has died at 81.

Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81

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The state of research on AI and education from controlled studies: Growing evidence that, when used as a tutor with instructor guidance, AI seems to have quite significant positive effects. When used alone to get help with homework, it can act as shortcut that hurts learning. Still early days.

Kristen DiCerbo, @khanacademy.org Chief Learning Officer, visited our school in April and talked about their methodology for developing tools like Khanmigo and the importance of the teacher-student relationship. #EduSky #AIEdu 📝 mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/gratitude-...

Gratitude and Optimism: A Reflection on Khan Academy’s Approach to AI for Educators

Khan Academy featured a guest post from our Mindful AI for Education team

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I don’t mean to be a broken record but AI development could stop at the o3/Gemini 2.5 level and we would have a decade of major changes across entire professions & industries (medicine, law, education, coding…) as we figure out how to actually use it & adapt our systems. AI disruption is baked in.

We don’t need AI to think for us—we need it to think with us. Co-agency in classrooms starts with intentional design. 🤔 How are you using AI as a thought partner or teaching assistant? We're looking for some great examples to share 👀. #EduSky #AiEdu

Gratitude and optimism: my primary takeaways after Khan Academy’s CLO @kristendicerbo.bsky.social came to speak about AI at our school. Here’s my reflection about her presentation from KA’s Blog. blog.khanacademy.org/guest-blog-p... @khanacademy.org @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social #aiedu #edusky

Guest Blog Post: Jake Kelly, Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, AZ

Jake Kelly has taught visual and media arts at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona since 2016. He teaches Journalism, Digital Photography, AP Studio ... Read more

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If you are an advocate of EdTech, I would love your opinion on this post I wrote: The argument for and against technology in schools: jcasatodd.com/the-most-com... #TLSky #EduSky

The most compelling argument for and against Educational Technology in Schools

I found myself on a parent thread on my Raising Digital Leaders account, where a few parents shared that they are calling for the abolition of Educational technology, citing a video called, The mos…

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Imagine being any kind of migrant right now. We've got folks who are really struggling to find pathways to any country that will validate their humanity. It's important to support agencies like Kino Border Initiative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=klgP...

Border Spotlight | April 14

YouTube video by Kino Border Initiative/Iniciativa Kino para la Frontera

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When it comes to AI integration, a Both/And approach feels like a more productive way to intentionally operate in the healthy and necessary tensions educators all face. #EDUSky #AiEdu

Nathan Lang-Raad, Ed.D@drlangraad.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why are we stuck in either/or thinking about AI in education? Either personalized learning OR human connection? Either innovation OR tradition? The sweet spot isn't choosing sides—it's finding where these "opposites" enhance each other. #edusky open.substack.com/pub/drlangra...

Stages Of A Self-Directed Learning Model #EduSky www.teachthought.com...

Stages Of A Self-Directed Learning Model

The goal of the model isn't content knowledge (though it should produce that), but rather something closer to wisdom--learning how to learn.

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Are you using AI to enhance student feedback? This week @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social keeps digging into practical ways to partner with AI without sacrificing your voice and direction. #EduSky #AiEdu #EdTech

Mindful AI for Education@mindfulaiedu.bsky.social · 2y ago

How can teachers partner with AI to give students better feedback? Our new post outlines 3 mindful ways to collaborate with AI—enhancing how we guide, support, and connect with students. #EduSky #AiEDU #EdTech mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/three-appr...

I’m sick of getting added to these random group chats in Signal

Great frameworks for using AI for feedback from @danikachorskyphd.bsky.social Three Approaches to Collaborating with AI to Provide Students with Feedback open.substack.com/pub/mindfula...

Three Approaches to Collaborating with AI to Provide Students with Feedback

Using AI for feedback can take different forms

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Evidence that a well prompted LLM can help learning from a (small, single-subject) randomized controlled trial at Harvard: “here we show that students learn more than twice as much in less time with an AI tutor compared to an active learning classroom, while also being more engaged and motivated.”

Gaming has strayed too far from what it once was. We need to go back to our roots. Bring back big head modes and cheat codes that unlock silly costumes

A thread on the difficulties of learning to code. Studies show that roughly 1/3 of incoming Comp Sci majors do not progress to their 2nd year, often due to the difficulty of the subject and lack of preparation. 🧵 #EduSky #AiEdu #Coding

A new post from me on my thoughts about vibe coding in education spaces. #edusky #aiforedu open.substack.com/pub/mindfula...

Learning Through Liking: The Appeal of Vibe Coding

Why Vibe Coders Start with Fun and Curiosity, Then Figure Out the Rest Later

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[Sigh]. A) Jelani Cobb is a great journalist and teacher of journalism and he oversaw his students as they did superb and vital work covering the protests on their campus. B) He is telling them (as he says later) the honest and brutal truth: their school can't protect them from the Fed Govt.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great. Columbia J-school students from abroad are being told to obey in advance by their dean. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...

If you have used LLM image generators, you know they are hard to control: LLM had to send a prompt to a separate image generation tool, it did not not make the image. Gemini is the first public release of a full multimodal LLM that can directly make images. This allows the systems to do detail work

sometimes I feel like people who freak out about keeping science fiction and fantasy separate and distinct are like that little kid who doesn't want the peas and carrots to touch on their plate. It's all imaginative fiction, folks.

Does AI Kill Critical Thinking? Maybe Not If We Use It Right Educate AI Regarding AI automating tasks, “this doesn’t mean we’re thinking less. It means our thinking is changing. And that shift can be an opportunity rather than a loss—if we learn how to use AI intentionally.” edu-ai.org/does-ai-k...

Does AI Kill Critical Thinking? Maybe Not If We Use It Right.

Jeanne Beatrix Law's Response to the Recent Microsoft Study's Claims of AI Over-Reliance This article has been republished with permission from Nick Potkalitsky, PhD. It originally appeared in his blog, Educating AI. Nick’s Intro: For the past week or two, the AI x Education space has been absolutely buzzing about Microsoft's bombshell

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Brilliant!

Jen Roberts, NBCT@jen.litandtech.com · 2y ago

🥱 Tired of "fixing" the text that AI gives you? Enable markdown on your Google Docs and you'll be able to "paste from markdown" to keep the formatting your robot assistant 🤖intended. #EduSky #EduSkyAI

Using AI for coding is like that moment when everyone stops listening to the instructions for a new board game and just says "we'll figure it out, let's just start playing." #AI #edusky #AIforEdu

I agree that humans are essential, but not because AI can't make great jokes yet 😂 we've got to set higher standards if we don't want to write ourselves into a corner.

Alfonso Gonzalez@educatoral.com · 2y ago

10 things AI still struggles with in education--and beyond #EduSky #EduGuardians www.eschoolnews.com/...

“I know when my dad was 95, 96, 97, 98, we had a live-in cook and maid for him,” he said. “I’m surprised they didn’t have them.” This had me thinking about the role community plays in our lives and eventual deaths. A good reminder that we should all hold some responsibility to check on our elders.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

Officials said Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of natural causes. But Arakawa died first, leaving Hackman, 95 years old with advanced Alzheimer’s, alone in the house for days. She had been his sole caregiver.

What does mindful AI use look like for you and your students? If we do this right, the potential is incredible. #EduSky #AiEDU mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/a-new-jour...

The most important thing students get in an AI-driven classroom isn’t automation—it’s you. 💡 If AI is part of your teaching, make sure your human fingerprints are all over it. #EduSky #AiEdu #EdTech New post 👉 mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/leaving-yo...

A new post coming up by me for the team

Mindful AI for Education@mindfulaiedu.bsky.social · 2y ago

The biggest danger of AI in classrooms isn’t cheating—it’s disengagement. Tomorrow, we’re diving into how to make sure AI works for learning and keeps human fingerprints all over it 👀. #EduSky #AiEDU #EdTech

This approach is vital. Our AI guidelines include a "Start of a conversation" approach for suspected AI beyond expectations for the reasons outlined here + more. Being wrongly accused of academic dishonesty is an awful position to put a student in. #EduSky #AiEDU 🧵 www.edweek.org/technology/w...

Why Teachers Should Talk to Students Before Accusing Them of Using AI to Cheat

Software showing how a student interacted with a document can shine a light on AI cheating, but it shouldn't be the final word, experts say.

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