Adam K. Dubé
@edtechprof.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Associate Professor Learning Sciences; Faculty of Education; McGill University (he/him). Educational tech/games + math cog mcgill.ca/tlc
@reckless.bsky.social decoder tariff episode. I’m disappointed re the Canada conversation. The USA commenced a trade war with my country. Threatening its sovereignty numerous times, if we don’t capitulate. Letting the CEO frame this as Canada having discriminated against USA is wild. . . . Wow.
“McGill’s administration has dragged its feet, responded to our proposals piecemeal and restructured our faculty in ways that undermine our ability to bargain effectively. That has to change." Read more: montrealgazette.com/news/mcgill-...
McGill education professors unanimously approve limited strike
They will strike for up to five days as they try to reach a first collective agreement.
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Informative episode from @theverge.com on AI detector @pangram.com CEO details how it is different than perplexity-based AI detectors. Covers methods for creating, testing, and maintaining AI detectors; also, why other detectors flag second language students. Useful for educators.
The one AI detector people actually trust.
AI text detectors have been notoriously unreliable, but that’s starting to change. This year, Pangram keeps coming up as the trusted source in identifying AI-written text. We sit down with Pangram CEO...
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The world’s leading AI models may be Canadian “When a Silicon Valley company tries to make a model that’s perfectly polite, universally tolerant, highly trusting of institutions, really afraid to encourage any extremism, you end up accidentally building a Canadian,” apple.news/ABVos5NdZRwW...
The world’s leading AI models may be more Canadian than American, study finds — The Logic
When the team at Toronto-based AI company Transformer Lab set out to test whether leading AI models espouse American values, they expected the results to be obvious: that systems built largely by U.S.
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1/ Anthropic launched Claude for Education today, it feels like more than another AI product announcement. It looks like a strategic play to become the infrastructure layer for education rather than simply another classroom tool. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Introducing Claude for Teachers
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Science of Learning and EdTech
Given an increased interest in the Science of Learning to translate how children learn into teaching and practice, this special issue seeks to advance ...
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Company that uses world’s knowledge without compensation continues to do so.
The Verge@theverge.com · 4w agoApple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
Do you conduct social/political psych research with non-probablity online samples (e.g., prolific, connect)? This new paper by Michael Stagnaro and colleagues is a must read! Will be adding this to my grad methods syllabus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Representativeness and response validity across nine opt-in online samples - Nature Human Behaviour
Stagnaro et al. compare nine opt-in participant samples on measures of response validity, representativeness and professionalism. They find substantial variation across samples and offer guidance for ...
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IMO many meta analyses of tech interventions might fail scrutiny. B/c tech introduces different pedagogy, as companies build teaching theories into products. This is not accounted for in control conditions. This is a critique of my field, not a defence of the original paper.
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · last mo.Remember that meta-study of ChatGPT effects on learning that got retracted by SpringerNature recently? Here's a new paper showing why it and others like it can't be trusted due to serious issues with the underlying literature. Bluntly put, they're meta-reviews of junk science doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
YouTube settles a lawsuit ahead of a second California trial over social media harms to minors; Meta, TikTok, and Snap remain defendants (Hillel Aron/Courthouse News Service) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Hello #MCLS2026 ! 🇮🇹 June 25 at 2 pm, Room T3- CLA Symposium: The potential of digital educational learning activities to support pupils’ learning processes of different math skills in classrooms" @ioe.bsky.social @mcls-official.bsky.social #neuroscience #cogsci #edtech #devpsy #dyscalculia
@parismarx.com Hi, just listening to episode on Canada’s AI strategy. If you ever want to chat about education and AI, let me know. Tech companies and Gov’ts always cite education as a positive use of AI and how education is needed to realise AI adoption. Don’t think you have an episode on it.
A 6-year-old, a 13-year-old, and a 17-year-old do not interact with AI in the same way—and policy shouldn't treat them as if they do. My latest for @theconversation.com Built on reports from @childrenandscreens.bsky.social a
A safe AI strategy for Canadian youth should include age-associated risks
Research on generative AI use among youth pinpoints design features that pose age-specific risks, which must be addressed before we adopt genAI into our schools and homes.
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“Canada should go beyond getting youth AI-ready — and regulate genAI systems and interactions to make them youth-ready.” Read my analyses of how Canada’s AI for All Strategy and the Safe Social Media Act could help make AI safe for youth. It’s informed by our G7 report on child-AI impacts.
A safe AI strategy for Canadian youth should include age-associated risks
Research on generative AI use among youth pinpoints design features that pose age-specific risks, which must be addressed before we adopt genAI into our schools and homes.
theconversation.com
A safe AI strategy for Canadian youth should include age-associated risks
A safe AI strategy for Canadian youth should include age-associated risks
Research on generative AI use among youth pinpoints design features that pose age-specific risks, which must be addressed before we adopt genAI into our schools and homes.
theconversation.com
“Canada should go beyond getting youth AI-ready — and regulate genAI systems and interactions to make them youth-ready.” Read my analyses of how Canada’s AI for All Strategy and the Safe Social Media Act could help make AI safe for youth. It’s informed by our G7 report on child-AI impacts.
A safe AI strategy for Canadian youth should include age-associated risks
Research on generative AI use among youth pinpoints design features that pose age-specific risks, which must be addressed before we adopt genAI into our schools and homes.
theconversation.com
Does Canada’s Safe Social Media Act go far enough? Expert in children’s digital media culture and children’s rights in the digital environment, @smgrimes.bsky.social joins Sue Smith:
Does Canada’s Safe Social Media Act go far enough? Here’s what one expert thinks - Montreal Now with Aaron Rand Podcast | iHeart
<p>Sara Grimes, Professor at McGill University and expert in children’s digital media culture and children’s rights in the digital environment spoke with Sue Smith, in for Aaron Rand</p> <...
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@davidwcochrane.bsky.social Issue with chatbots is that they are now a key way to engage with software. They power Microsoft word, Google search, airline helpbots; will these all be subject to regulation?
@davidwcochrane.bsky.social The Safe Social Media act does not seem to regulate the design features people worry about (infinite scroll, algorithmic feeds) unless they promote the 7 types of harmful content.
Canada will regulate AI chatbots for kids. Our G7 report provides guidelines on how this should work. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Ottawa moves to restrict social media for kids under 16 | CBC News
The federal government is moving to restrict young Canadians' access to social media unless those companies can show they've made their platforms safe.
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My kids are younger than Jen's so it's still "family iPad" and not "every kid's phone," but I have COMPLAINTS about how parental controls work across every tech we use in our house... except PlayStation. They're doing pretty okay. "Parenting" should not be a weird edge case.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2mo ago"My issue with Screen Time is that the world’s most powerful technology company, with reams of expertise in hardware and software, has half-assed its 'parental controls' for years and is now trying to put lipstick on a pig." Read more from @jp2e.bsky.social:
A blanket ban is not the way to go. Instead, we need regulations for these companies that create better, safe experiences for users. Regulate tech, not kids. For those in Canada, check out @smgrimes.bsky.social great work on this. Links below.
Ottawa planning social media ban for children under 16 — The Globe and Mail
Platforms that meet new safety standards could be exempt from the ban, source says
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It’s official. Canada’s AI strategy is out. Our G7 policy report on children and AI and our AI in education tip sheet are perfect resources for this moment. Let’s set the right course! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney unveils national AI strategy, says it prioritizes safety, reliability, sovereignty | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney officially unveiled Canada's long-awaited artificial intelligence strategy on Thursday, saying his government's approach will ensure the technology is built with safety, rel...
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Glad to contribute to this tip sheet for AI in education—it does a great job conveying the state of the research to parents and teachers.
Bring Your Own Device Europe
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Children and Screens@childrenandscreens.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW! The expert-backed, evidence-based #TipSheet “AI in Education” provides educators and parents with the practical strategies they need to guide students in the new AI-driven classroom as well as navigate the impacts of #AI in education on #ChildDevelopment. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4o7qXBp #EdTech
NEW! The expert-backed, evidence-based #TipSheet “AI in Education” provides educators and parents with the practical strategies they need to guide students in the new AI-driven classroom as well as navigate the impacts of #AI in education on #ChildDevelopment. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4o7qXBp #EdTech