Generative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof. How I updated my AI footprint calculator accordingly jonippolito.substack.com/p/agents-are...

Agents are where AI’s energy bill gets ugly

Generative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof.

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The AI-generated podcast paper is out! I generaetd podcasts from four different source documents and an PDF using NotebookLM and found that in every case it translated cultural contexts to a standard, white, American language and context. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#LoveLD - love #LTHEchat: Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 15th March at 8pm BST with guest Danielle Hinton (@hintondm.bsky.social to discuss Brookfield’s Four Lenses: lthechat.com/2026/04/12/l...

LTHEchat 360: Through the Prism: Illuminating Educational Impact with Brookfield’s Four Lenses

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 15th March at 8pm GMT with guest Danielle Hinton (@hintondm.bsky.social to discuss Brookfield’s Four Lenses! Introduction Educators in Higher Education…

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#writing #booksky

Thanks to @tlongkumer.bsky.social for interviewing me and @samillingworth.com for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social - great questions! newbooksnetwork.com/genai-and-hi...

This looks fantastic #AIinHE

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson@profferguson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

what even is cheating now! Exactly that! Do have a look at Steal this poem: dogtrax.edublogs.org/2014/01/16/r... - which explored exactly that - and when we used that as a prompt for discussion with our students - it was fascinating - and their poems were too! #LTHEchat

Look out for us sharing research from our 2025 students/ staff survey of AI use across Scotland - it should be being published next week on our ScAITEN website (#LTHEchat)

Q1 How does GenAI prompt us to re-examine what “valued forms of knowledge” look like in areas you teach or support students in? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response

Join us for next week’s #LTHEchat which will explore “Talking About GenAI in Higher Education As If Education Came First” with @rmforsyth.bsky.social on Wednesday 1tth March 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/03/06/l...

LTHEchat 357: Talking About GenAI in Higher Education As If Education Came First

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 11th March at 8pm GMT with guest Rachel Forsyth to discuss GenAI in higher education. In many conversations about generative AI in higher education, th…

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Article of the week. "That won't work, bro"

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised people take this Alpha School thing at all seriously. Does no one remember Rocketship or AltSchool or the other attempts at this digitally automated schooling? Time to re-up this from the AltSchool days. www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-v...

first in my line of critical universi-tees

Seen on a well-used bookshelf at Gothenburg University @profsallybrown.bsky.social

On anthropomorphizing language about AI, I'm pleased to say that this paper with @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman is finally out in the world! firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... >>

It's worth reading the full article to see the range of tools included in the product. It's all so hit and miss. Did anyone talk to teachers and students about what they might find useful in a GenAI product? It's not about what the tech can do, but what would genuinely improve teaching and learning.

Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This (about the 'new' Grammarly AI toolset) is absolutely terrifying, not because the tool is good, but because it is an easy, all-in-one, way to avoid thinking any thoughts or doing any work at all *and 3000 universities say its OK to use*. www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...

This (about the 'new' Grammarly AI toolset) is absolutely terrifying, not because the tool is good, but because it is an easy, all-in-one, way to avoid thinking any thoughts or doing any work at all *and 3000 universities say its OK to use*. www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...

Grammarly Revisited - Carleton College

A close look at Grammarly's new AI tools

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ONL pedagogical approach & design

ONL pedagogical approach & design

Commentary on ONL pedagogical approach & design by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

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Grades have been criticised for as long as they have existed, yet little has changed. Perhaps it is time for new approaches? Our new paper on post-critical approaches to grading with @margaretbea.bsky.social, Rola Ajjawi and David Boud is out in Higher Education! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Beyond a critique of grades - Higher Education

Grades have been criticised for as long as they have existed. For at least a century, scholars have claimed that grades are inaccurate and unreliable; they provide overly simplistic reductions of stud...

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The blog post written with @profpeter1.bsky.social for @advancehe.bsky.social has been published. "The costs of Generative AI: chasing the elephant round the room." www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

How do teachers build trust with students in the era of GenAI? @rmforsyth.bsky.social and I discuss findings of a recent series of focus group interviews with @niyamirandabond.bsky.social on @onehe.bsky.social . Watch the video and let us know what you think! onehe.org/resources/bu...

Re. previous, "You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you are capable of it now" is another one that can be cross-stitched for the office

Thanks, @sandra-abegglen.bsky.social - it will be available on 26 Jan! @samillingworth.com

Sandra Abegglen@sandra-abegglen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Worth looking out for: GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning (Jan 2026, available also open access) www.bloomsbury.com/ca/genai-in-...

Everyone always proposes this as the answer without understanding that an oral exam requires very different skills than a closely argued research-driven essay. If you want to argue those skills don’t matter, then fine, argue that, but don’t pretend that oral argumentation is identical.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 9mo ago

Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT.

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

The Christmas issue of The BMJ is coming soon! To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue, and respond to some articles. Inspired by this article evaluating the cognitive abilities of AI 🤖 www.bmj.com/content/387/... #BMJChristmas

This is a long, but uplifting, article about teaching humanities with the humanities as a guiding principle (credit to Carlo Rotella) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.

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Re accommodations for students: if they ask they can have them, no questions asked. Stop being a gross creep about it.

Worth reading: Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal (Vol.7 No.2, 2025), titled "Reimagining Student Engagement: Identity, Inclusion, and Innovation in Higher Education" sehej.raise-network.com/raise/issue/...

How do teachers build trust with students in the presence of GenAI? @rmforsyth.bsky.social and I did focus group interviews and have written up very first results in these conference proceedings: mirjamglessmer.com/2025/11/13/n...

@paulbernal.bsky.social at last, someone actually TALKED to a diverse range gen-z about there experience online AND offline over a year observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

‘Andrew Tate is dead’: inside the minds of 16-year-olds | The Observer

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