We have launched a new AI in K-12 Education certificate program at UC Irvine. Please pass on the word to any one who may be interested! teacheracademy.uci.edu/ai-in-educat...

Check out our new Cambridge Element, Generative AI and Language Teaching--jam-packed with practical advice for educators around the world. Free online until July 10, 2025! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching

Cambridge Core - Teacher training and professional development - Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching

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In the face of federal cuts, California could backstop support for educational research--but tariffs are causing a huge budget crisis in California. Please sign a petition to support the main group giving out educational research grants for higher education www.change.org/p/protect-in...

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Protect Innovation in Higher Ed: Save the California Education Learning Lab

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Our open access paper describing the first year of our DBIR work incorporating generative AI into an upper division writing course is out! doi.org/10.1007/s107... For more resources from our NSF-funded project, see our website GenAIed.org! @markwarschauer.com

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

5.8 earthquake in San Diego--we felt it here in Irvine. Is everybody OK?

Nice article by @jillbarshay.bsky.social about research by @renzheyu.bsky.social of Teachers College! @hechingerreport.org‬ continues its outstanding educational journalism!

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International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT

New digital monograph: Generative AI in Computer Science Education. Available free online from April 7-21, 2025 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Generative AI in Computer Science Education

Cambridge Core - Education policy, strategy and reform - Generative AI in Computer Science Education

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Let’s go Dodgers and Roki Sasaki!

Our new paper: Promoting parent-child shared reading with a bilingual conversational agent www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Promoting parent-child shared reading with a bilingual conversational agent

Recognizing the challenges bilingual children face in school readiness and the potential of bilingual dialogic shared reading in improving language an…

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In lighter news, I *highly* recommend this training institute if you're interested in learning analytics and #STEMed! 👇👇👇

NSF ECR Hub@ecrhub.bsky.social · last yr.

Apply by April 4 for the 2025 cohort of the #NSF funded NSF-funded Learning Analytics in STEM Education Research (LASER) Institute. The LASER Institute will kick off with a week-long summer training workshop July 14-18. Details/apply: www.fi.ncsu.edu/projects/las...

Sunday evening fun :-)

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

A good overview

Rob Farrow@rfarrow.bsky.social · last yr.

Latest publication! You can access a (non-downloadable) PDF at rdcu.be/eaAcn Xiao, J., Bozkurt, A., Nichols, M. et al. Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future Directions in Educational Generative AI Research. TechTrends (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s115...

Beautiful short film resonant with the points made in the book my wife and I wrote, Japan: The Paradox of Harmony https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/opinion/japan-education-childhood.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE4.CHuB.P_lqFwMcFMLJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Another update! Here are What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Reports & IES Conditions of Education reports. Thanks to those who uploaded these to OSF! (not me, I'm just spreading the wealth) osf.io/sxf42/

What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Reports

Storage of What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Reports from 2015 through February 2025 (downloaded 2/10/2025) Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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I've been thinking a lot about AI and the future of writing and I was looking back on one of my papers from 2007. "The Paradoxical Future of Digital Learning" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The paradoxical future of digital learning - Learning Inquiry

What constitutes learning in the 21st century will be contested terrain as our society strives toward post-industrial forms of knowledge acquisition and production without having yet overcome the educ...

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Interesting read on the future of writing www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

I have just been sent a shareable link so this article can be accessed for free: www.wsj.com/health/welln...

Essay | Stop Panicking Over Teens and Social Media

Modern life is digital. Adults need to help young people navigate the costs and benefits, not launch bans and hope for the best.

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Dr Lucy Foulkes@lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Me in the WSJ today, arguing that the relationship between social media and mental health is not clear cut, and bans for teenagers aren't the answer. (NB I did not pick this title, I would have gone for something kinder. I understand why people are worried.) 1/ www.wsj.com/health/welln...

1/4 Sunday morning rant. The 100-point grading scale so widely used in the US is irrational and ridiculously unfair. Why in the world should a student who gets one A (100) and one F (0) get an overall grade of F (50)?

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I lost my home to the Altadena wildfires. These are the logistics I never even considered until my entire neighborhood disappeared.

Gale Sinatra, a USC professor, lost her home in Altadena to the Eaton Fire. She's struggled to fill prescriptions and doesn't have access to her mail.

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Interesting and perhaps controversial methods in this paper: "The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans

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Some of my brilliant colleagues developed a new tool for contextualizing effect sizes for social & behavioral outcomes! ebcontextualizer.shinyapps.io/EmpBench/ described in this article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thread on educators using NotebookLM in their classes, either by simply allowing/encouraging its use or by uploading course materials there for students https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/s/GibMArR1E6

Great read. The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy, the School “Replacing Teachers with AI” They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They've replaced poor kids with rich kids. https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-2-hour-learning-and?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Just putting this here before going to make some more coffee. Coffee drinkers reap health boost – but only if they do it in the morning www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ja...

Coffee drinkers reap health boost – but only if they do it in the morning

Pre-lunch brewers enjoy lower risk of death, analysis finds, but benefit vanishes among all-day drinkers

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Note that this study examines human graders' detection of AI, not automated detection if AI (which is also very inaccurate)

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2y ago

Reminder for the new semester that you can’t detect AI Researchers secretly added AI-created papers to the exam pool: “We found that 94% of our AI submissions were undetected. The grades awarded to our AI submissions were on average half a grade boundary higher than that achieved by real students”

Reminder for the new semester that you can’t detect AI Researchers secretly added AI-created papers to the exam pool: “We found that 94% of our AI submissions were undetected. The grades awarded to our AI submissions were on average half a grade boundary higher than that achieved by real students”

Two purported mechanisms: (1) Girls do better in school, so were more harmed by shutdowns (2) Girls may have been tasked with more responsibilities at home, such as looking over younger siblings, that crowded out studying

Matt Barnum@mattbarnum.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Girls have consistently lost more academic ground than boys since the pandemic. This is clear across a wide range of tests, but has gotten little attention to date. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

"equity-focused math reform in SFUSD featured delaying Algebra I until ninth grade for all students. We observe large changes in ninth and 10th grades (e.g., delaying Algebra I and geometry). Participation in AP math fell 15%. Large ethnoracial gaps remained." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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