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James Bedford

@jamesbedford.bsky.social

Educator at UNSW, Words in Routledge books (2024), Edutopia, Inside Higher ed, Colloquy, Education Specialist in AI, PhD in Creative Writing, SFHEA, Trying to untangle the gordian knot aka artificial intelligence in higher education. Jamesbedford.com.au

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James Bedford@jamesbedford.bsky.social · last yr.

Gemini now uses your Google search history to provide specified results beyond just your regular Gemini conversations. Asked it "what do you know about me?" and it knew where I lived, what my interests were and what I'd searched recently in Google.

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James Bedford@jamesbedford.bsky.social · last yr.

The last thing I want is for us all to get stuck in an endless generative AI loop where AI does everything. This is not what I mean when I talk about using generative AI for research and writing. This is lowest common denominator stuff "AI Wheel of Death" by James Bedford (2025)

A circular infographic titled "The AI Wheel of Death" shows a repeating cycle in academic publishing involving heavy reliance on AI. The cycle includes six stages: "Author uses AI to do research" (orange section) "Author gets AI to write paper" (red section) "Reviewer reviews the work using AI" (purple section) "Author responds to reviewers’ AI feedback by asking AI to adjust paper" (blue section) "Journal publishes the paper" (teal section) "LLM scrapes internet during training (which includes this paper)" — leading back to the beginning In the center is a black skull, emphasizing the critical tone of the loop. A smaller skull is at the bottom of the image. The graphic critiques the recursive and ethically questionable overuse of AI in scholarly research and publishing.
James Bedford@jamesbedford.bsky.social · last yr.

Want to create an AI-guided learning module? Not sure what an AI-guided learning module is? Here's the prompt for our Generative AI Literacy Module (GAIL) released under CC BY-NC 4.0. You can adapt and make your own custom GPT from off these instructions. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Generative Artificial Intelligence Literacy Module (GAIL): Example of an ‘AI-Guided Learning Module’ Prompt Note to Users: The following is the prompt we used for our Generative AI Literacy Module a...

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LTHEchat@lthechat.bsky.social · last yr.

2 days to go before this week's #LTHEchat! This week we will feature Prof. Sarah Eaton @saraheaton.bsky.social who will be leading a discussion on postplagiarism: teaching and learning in an age of Artificial Intelligence. Check out the blog for more: lthechat.com/2025/03/10/l...

#LTHEchat 322: Postplagiarism: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Artificial Intelligence

Led by Prof. Sarah Elaine Eaton @saraheaton.bsky.social In higher education, we find ourselves at a fascinating inflection point. The emergence of powerful artificial intelligence tools has forever…

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James Bedford@jamesbedford.bsky.social · last yr.

Delivered a keynote today for UNSW college sharing thoughts around AI in education. Recently, I find myself talking a lot about the dangers of over-reliance, the decline of critical thinking, and how we might work to reduce the negative impacts that come with using AI tools regularly.

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James Bedford@jamesbedford.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you haven’t tried already, go and try www.deepseek.com, a new LLM that is said to be on par with o1. It is free and open source. Select the ‘deep think’ option to see the chain of thought the model produces. The quality of outputs I’m getting are some of the best I’ve seen an LLM produce.

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James Bedford@jamesbedford.bsky.social · 2y ago

When we talk about equity of access and GenAI let’s take a moment to consider this: students can freely access the world’s most powerful LLMs in their pockets (with/w.o internet) 24/7. The equity issue here is providing the support and education to use these tools responsibly.

Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2y ago

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #14151: You don't need to write for publication, or for money, or for an audience, or for anyone but yourself. Joy is a worthwhile objective. Joy doesn't need a reason.

James Bedford@jamesbedford.bsky.social · 2y ago

Generative AI is not creative. LLMs are stochastic parrots producing algorithmic weasel words like a hive mind of magic eight-balls with quintillions of possibilities all capable of statistical alignment to somehow produce coherent responses that make sense to us.