Reading now: findings show how learners who used GenAI primarily through apps in mobile phones or chatbots embedded in social media platforms, tended to adopt a passive stance towards GenAI, accepting generated output without much critical evaluation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #eduskyAIv

hechingerreport.org/proof-points... Yet another example of researchers not seeming to understand that teachers are building AI assistants or apps that mitigate these biases. We don’t have to accept the trade offs presented in this paper.

AI gives more praise, less criticism to Black students

A Stanford experiment found that AI feedback shifts on identical essays depending upon the identity and characteristics of the student.

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Granting that "Student Reflections on AI Use Doesn’t Work" Patrick Dempsey: open.substack.com/pub/thepatri... Here's an image of a revision process by a student on writingpartners.net. How to avoid Dempsey's closed loop? Escaping a Reflection Loop via AI - 1 of 4 #AIinEducation #eduskyAI #edusky

With breakfast, I read a new post in Psychology Today by John Nosta, "The Curvature of Thought - Personal Perspective: Can AI bend the geometry of human knowing?" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... From Blog Post to Peer-Reviewed Article Inquiry via AI 1 of 4 #AIinEducation #eduskyAI #edusky

Let's start with a paragraph from "Animal Farm," Chapter V, which includes: "Of late the sheep had taken to bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad" both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this." From Literature to Inquiry via AI 1 of 4 #AIinEducation #eduskyAI #edusky

This Writing Partner (GPT) is really helping me to think about this Abstract. writingpartners.net/documents/85.... #eduskyAI #AIinEducation #edusky

Where to start?

Educators Paul Allison, David Cole, and Sam Reed explore strategies for integrating AI into a reading and writing unit focused on Jackie Robinson and his values. 1/5 #eduskyai #aiineducation youtu.be/gqUTDEJLvRY?...

TTT 10.22.2025 Sam Reed Integrating AI into a unit about Jackie Robinson: The Man Who Broke Barriers

YouTube video by Paul Allison

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“Generative AI should not be banned outright, nor should it be embraced without thought. What we really need is guidance, resources, and practice in how to utilize it wisely.” This is the most sensible (from experience) nuanced treatment of AI that I have read. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Though it's a stretch for me to understand the metrics in this study, ever since I started reading, I keep returning to these ideas. Their "setup provides explicit estimates of uncertainty and benchmarks AI model by quantifying the synergy they provide to human interaction." doi.org/10.31234/osf...

John Nosta unpacks the AI tool metaphor here: “This is the quiet revolution we’re living through. This is technology moving from external utility to internal participation.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #eduskyAI

Maybe AI Was Never a Tool

Using artificial intelligence "responsibly" assumes it is just another tool—it isn't.

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I want to invite you to a conversation about AI through the lens of fiction. Gideon Dishon, the author of "From Monsters to Mazes" writingpartners.net/documents/85... in the abstract: "...fictional texts, can shape our shared imagination of possible and probable futures." #eduskyAI 1/3

We are reading and annotating together. We would love to see your marginalia on From Monsters to Mazes: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI Between Frankenstein and Kafka writingpartners.net/documents/85... before we meet on Wednesday evening, October 1, at 8E/7C/6M/5P in Kumospace.com/youthvoices.

Why social annotation:“Intelligence—whether human or artificial—is inherently interactive, contextual, and collaborative. Sophisticated thinking rarely occurs in isolation; it emerges instead through dialogue, feedback, refinement, and the integration of diverse perspectives.” osf.io/preprints/ps...

“What we really need are nuanced approaches that center human agency and experience about how new technologies complicate and alter our habits and skills.” Three cheers for nuance! youtu.be/Fgxf_EJnYEU?...

TTT 09.24.2025 How many educators does it take to create an AI assistant?

YouTube video by Paul Allison

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“AI can… be the ultimate training partner, a sparring partner for the mind that forces us to level up. The essential challenge is to keep agency at the center of the interaction and to make sure we are directing the conversation rather than outsourcing it.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Human Agency in the Age of AI

When AI stands at the ready to do our work—and our thinking—for us, human agency is what keeps us drivers, not passengers, of the mind.

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We invite you to meet Dr. Rachel Horst www.rachelhorst.ca with us on Wed. evening, September 17 at 8E/7C/6M/5P. We'll be meeting in Kumospace.com/youthvoices. www.kumospace.com/youthvoices?... Join us to engage in a collaborative inquiry that seeks to move beyond binary thinking about AI. #eduskyAI

In this conversation Chris Sloan shares insights on how students in his AP English classes interact with AI-generated feedback, emphasizing the importance of students maintaining agency over their writing. youtu.be/JT9wH-Z5ChY #eduskyAI

TTT 09.10.2025 We explore the use of AI in aiding students with writing college admissions essays

YouTube video by Paul Allison

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Demanding that we take a side: “Importantly, critical washing — encouraging AI use while being ‘aware of the risks’ — must be avoided: [R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm.” zenodo.org/records/1706...

Okay, can one read with and against this? philarchive.org/archive/GUEATU

Here’s another angle to consider: Will limiting access to “virtual interactions” while in school lead youth who are more prone to loneliness to “exert faster decisions to seek rewards”—behaviors that may bring more alcohol and drug use and sexual activity? www.nature.com/articles/s44... #eduskyAI

More AI metaphors “AI can extend our perception, but it must never become our compass. A lens clarifies what we see. A compass tells us where to go. The first enhances thought. The second replaces it, and true north may be a curiously human-centric direction.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Just getting up to speed with Dr. Rachel Horst: open.spotify.com/episode/48ym... www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...

Love this! aje.io/b86fmu

Breakdancing gives Gaza’s children a way to express themselves

A dance academy is giving Gaza’s children a way to express themselves as they deal with the daily realities of war.

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Friends! Pencil in these dates for @edunowlab.bsky.social's Creatively Critical Tech series! #literacies 10/6 or 7 Kate Hennessy www.makingculturelab.com 10/15 6:30CT Roderic Crooks www.rncrooks.info 11/12 6:30CT Audrey Watters audreywatters.com 11/19 6:30CT Cynthia Bennett www.bennettc.com

It’s not just your students: “As it stands, the benefits of in person education — socializing, engaging more thoroughly with the material, and learning how to conduct oneself in places where we have to speak publicly — can feel like they’re as good as gone.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This "Teachers Teaching Teachers" meetup involves a discussion on metaphors and Generative AI, where participants share their thoughts and experiences with AI in education. The group engages in an activity to create and analyze AI-generated images based on metaphors. youtu.be/fvcFl3EqAiI #eduskyAI

TTT 09.03.2025 Fear and Awe: Making Sense of Generative AI Through Metaphor

YouTube video by Paul Allison

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We invite you to a workshop "that moves beyond technical ‘how-to’ discussions to explore the deeper assumptions and concerns that shape GenAI adoption in education." Join us in Kumospace.com/youthvoices Wed, 09/03, 8E/7C/6M/5P. We'll follow activities in this recent study: doi.org/10.5334/jime....

Been thinking about metaphors and AI recently: “Metaphors are never complete, always potentially hazardous and open to reinterpretation. It is this very process of thinking through them in relation to the topic of interest—ed tech in our case—that makes them useful.” read.aupress.ca/read/metapho...