Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu)
@smprof.bsky.social
Education leader designing immersive AI learning experiences. Shaping the future of instruction. Keynote speaker. Chair EDUCAUSE SSA Steering Committee. Accessibility Policy Committee. Reader & learner. University of Illinois Chicago UIC. More on LinkedIn
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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Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''AI Tutor Helped the Students Who Didn't Need Help Finding It.'' is worth your time. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
AI Tutor Helped the Students Who Didn't Need Help Finding It.
The AI Story for Education
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At 11pm after the kids are in bed, AI can quiz you on today's lecture. For non-traditional students, AI as coach is not luxury. It is essential. The key: reach the challenge, don't bypass it. 🌙 #Education #AIEDU
AI as the Always-Available Coach for Non-Traditional Students
The AI Story for Education
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Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Inquiry in Action: What a Russell Group University Did That Community Colleges Should Copy'' is worth your time. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
Inquiry in Action: What a Russell Group University Did That Community Colleges Should Copy
The AI Story for Education
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Harvesting work has capped payoffs. Seeding work has uncapped payoffs. AI handles the harvest. You invest in the seeds. Cognitive Triage for educators. 🌱 #Education #AIEDU
Harvesting vs. Seeding: Two Types of Academic Work
The AI Story for Education
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The 56% Premium for Workers with Advanced AI Skills: Why the AI economy is paying for judgment, not degrees. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
The 56% Premium for Workers with Advanced AI Skills
The AI Story for Education
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What if AI made assignments harder, not easier? Progressive Overload: have students defend their thesis against AI at escalating difficulty levels. AI as training partner, not ghostwriter. 📈 #Education #AIEDU
Progressive Overload: Use AI to Make Learning Harder
The AI Story for Education
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Metacognitive Laziness vs. Productive Struggle: Where Is the Line?. Beware of metacognitive laziness: effects of generative AI on learning motivation, processes, and performance. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
Metacognitive Laziness vs. Productive Struggle: Where Is the Line?
The AI Story for Education
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Most educators never shift out of first gear with AI. The Intelligent Gearbox gives you four gears of prompting, from one-shot to agentic. The gap between Gear 0 and Gear 3 is enormous. ⚙️ #Education #AIEDU
The Intelligent Gearbox: Four Gears of AI Prompting
The AI Story for Education
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FLUFF, SPARK, and Cognitive Triage: The new professor's first mistake. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
FLUFF, SPARK, and Cognitive Triage
The AI Story for Education
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Writing Energy is Real: What Your Body Knows Before You Do.. Part 1 of 3 in a short series on where good writing comes from. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
Writing Energy is Real: What Your Body Knows Before You Do.
The AI Story for Education
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Why MIT's Brain Scans Should Change How You Grade. The cognitive damage isn't coming from AI. It's coming from what we still measure. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
Why MIT's Brain Scans Should Change How You Grade
The AI Story for Education
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Students: Your Writing Struggle Is Not a Verdict: It's a technology adoption problem. And you might be the one who builds the next tool. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
Students: Your Writing Struggle Is Not a Verdict
The AI Story for Education
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Cognitive Obesity: The Next Public Health Crisis Higher Ed Won't See Coming. What the 1940s military's discovery about physical fitness should tell us about the next mass civic institution. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
Cognitive Obesity: The Next Public Health Crisis Higher Ed Won't See Coming
The AI Story for Education
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If AI can write lectures and create assessments, what remains that is mine? Authenticity lies in judgment and curation, not manual execution. The chef analogy. 🎭 #Education #AIEDU
The Authenticity Barrier: What Remains That Is Mine?
The AI Story for Education
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A 19-item surgical checklist cut deaths 47%. AI tools in education work the same way: they do not replace expertise, they protect it. The checklist lesson. ✅ #Education #AIEDU
What a Surgical Checklist Teaches Us About AI in Education
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Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Why Saying ''Thank You'' to Your Chatbot Might Actually Make It Work Better'' is worth your time. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
Why Saying ''Thank You'' to Your Chatbot Might Actually Make It Work Better
The AI Story for Education
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FLUFF, SPARK, and Cognitive Triage. The new professor's first mistake. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
FLUFF, SPARK, and Cognitive Triage
The AI Story for Education
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Pedagogical Singularity? The real shif isn't about how smart the model gets. It is about when the institution reorganizes around AI-mediated cognition as its default operating mode. If generative AI vanished tomorrow, what would survive in your classroom? societyandai.org/perspectives...
Beyond Model Capability: The Pedagogical Singularity as Institutional Reorganization
Dr. Szymon Machajewski relocates the 'pedagogical singularity' from a threshold in AI capability to a threshold in institutional design, arguing that what determines whether human-AI coupling builds d...
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Sharing a new Society & AI Perspective by Dr. Szymon Machajewski, who argues the it isn't how much AI students use, but the order in which human effort & machine assistance enter a task. societyandai.org/p/pedagogica...
Beyond Model Capability: The Pedagogical Singularity as Institutional Reorganization
Dr. Szymon Machajewski relocates the 'pedagogical singularity' from a threshold in AI capability to a threshold in institutional design, arguing that what determines whether human-AI coupling builds d...
societyandai.org
Detection is not AI detection. Oral exams, public artifacts, peer review, process docs. Verify genuine engagement without unreliable AI detectors. 🔒 #Education #AIEDU
The Analog Checkpoint: Verifying Genuine Engagement
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My Experience Using Generative AI as Community College Student. A student's first-hand account of using generative AI in community college coursework. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
My Experience Using Generative AI as Community College Student
The AI Story for Education
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Why Saying ''Thank You'' to Your Chatbot Might Actually Make It Work Better: Anthropic research suggests politeness may nudge AI models into more productive internal states. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
Why Saying ''Thank You'' to Your Chatbot Might Actually Make It Work Better
The AI Story for Education
thelearnitall.substack.com
AAUP on AI in 11 Articles.: AAUP wrote the diagnosis. Who writes the treatment? https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
AAUP on AI in 11 Articles.
The AI Story for Education
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A vague assignment = a zero-shot prompt. Both force guessing, both produce generic results. The same principles that improve your AI prompts improve your teaching. 🎯 #Education #AIEDU
Zero-Shot Prompting Mirrors Zero-Shot Teaching
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The greatest obstacle to thriving with AI is not ignorance. It is ego. Can you become a beginner again? Neuroplasticity happens at the edge of ability. 🪞 #Education #AIEDU
The Intelligent Simpleton: Why Ego Is the Biggest Obstacle
The AI Story for Education
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Not all tasks deserve equal effort. The FLUFF/SPARK framework helps you sort work worth delegating to AI from ideas worth thinking. Cognitive Triage for educators. 🧠 Available on Amazon. #Education #AIEDU
FLUFF vs SPARK: Sort Your Work Before AI Does It For You
The AI Story for Education
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AI in Education Is Four Things, Not One. Why the integration debate keeps failing and the structural fix that may help. https://theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
AI in Education Is Four Things, Not One
The AI Story for Education
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AI Tutor Helped the Students Who Didn't Need Help Finding It.. This is not a technology problem. It is an administrator problem. Read: https://thelearnitall.substack.com/p/the-5-percent-problem-is-an-administrator #Education #AIEDU
AI Tutor Helped the Students Who Didn't Need Help Finding It.
The AI Story for Education
thelearnitall.substack.com
