Jon Mason
@masjono.social
Academic at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory of Australia. Research interests spanning most things involving digital technology and education #sensemaking #wisdom #AIED #SOTL #inquiry #intercultural #learning #COIL #SDGs #OER #standards
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Conceptualizations of GenAI and students’ professionalization: Within the multi-layered environment of learning for higher education
As Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) becomes increasingly integrated into higher education, there is a limited understanding of how students …
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Casuarina Beach … early dry season … you have to imagine the breeze
“It necessary to begin a shared discernment process for identifying the spiritual and cultural roots of ongoing transformations. If we focus only on contingencies, we risk letting the succession of emergencies dictate the direction of our path.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Maintaining researcher profiles is time-intensive work - some universities have reported averages of 20 hours to complete a profile for a single new faculty member. We've launched Symplectic's AI-Assisted Profile Curation to change that. 🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/B8jc50Z66bO @symplectic.co.uk
AI-Assisted Profile Curation
AI-Assisted Profile Curation transforms how research information is captured and maintained in Symplectic Elements. Using AI-powered document-to-profile workflows, users can convert unstructured conte...
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Key findings of the 2026 World Inequality Report are worth a look - though profoundly and sadly unsurprising: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
56,000 people own three times more wealth than half of humanity
The World Inequality Report 2026 notes how the world is extremely unequal, with wealth inequality still rapidly rising. Which policies could reduce inequality?
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blog.aare.edu.au/the-castlere... #aied #edusky #academicsky #policy #australia
The Castlereagh Statement gives us direction on AI. Now we need to talk about practice
The question is no longer whether AI will shape education. The question is whether education will shape AI use in return.
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After the Streetlight Flickers I am a Witness Are you? #BlueSkyRemnant
Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’ www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme... #ai #artificialintelligence #genZ #genA
Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"
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MIT research: heavy AI reliance weakens neural connectivity. Cognitive atrophy is real. The answer is not banning AI. It is designing learning that uses AI to increase challenge. 🧠⚠️ #Education #AIEDU
Cognitive Atrophy: When AI Does the Thinking For You
The AI Story for Education
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But … “AI is closer to electricity or the internet than ordinary software.” … AI is not software
Crikey@crikey.com.au · 3mo agoAI is closer to electricity or the internet than ordinary software. Treating it as a productivity app with some privacy risks is like treating the steam engine as a faster horse. www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/07/a...
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“while AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning. These results have important implications for how generative AI tools should be integrated into higher education” #aied www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into higher education has outpaced empirical understanding of its effects on fundamental l…
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Been thinking about the teachers who quietly redesign their lessons every summer versus those who attend three conferences a year but change nothing. The quiet ones never call it professional development. They just call it teaching.
This. 👇 👇 👇 👇 Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #edchat #edreform #edpolicy #edtech #edcolo #edutwitter #teachertwitter #k12 #edadmin #suptchat #edleaders #edleadership #principals #AIinEDU
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After edtech: From learning design to cognitive architecture
Educational technology has reached a structural turning point, shifting from frontier innovation to embedded infrastructure. In its place, AI is recon...
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arxiv.org/abs/2509.22505 #aied #academicsky #research
Mental Health Impacts of AI Companions: Triangulating Social Media Quasi-Experiments, User Perspectives, and Relational Theory
AI-powered companion chatbots (AICCs) such as Replika are increasingly popular, offering empathetic interactions, yet their psychosocial impacts remain unclear. We examined how engaging with AICCs sha...
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AI detectors, student anxiety, and authorial alienation: a qualitative study of affective control
In response to generative AI, universities are rapidly deploying AI detection tools to uphold academic integrity. However, the pedagogical impact of these flawed systems remains critically under-ex...
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