Category: #AIinEd

Last week, along with AI Pioneers partner George Bekiaridis, I attended a Working Group meeting at the Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg. In a LinkedIn post, George explains what the meeting was about. I’m honored to be contributing to a vital initiative at the heart of European education policy! Last week, I participated in the inaugural meeting of the Council of Europe working group tasked with developing a new Committee of Ministers Recommendation on Vocational Education and Training (VET) and a Culture of Democracy. Read about the first meeting here: Council of Europe Newsroom – First meeting on new […]

Julieta Longo & Digit / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ On Wednesday, OpenAI and edtech company Instructure, the company which owns the Canvas Learning Management System, announced a partnership. Going forward, they say, AI models will be embedded within Canvas to help teachers create new types of classes, assess student performance in new ways, and take some of the drudgery out of administrative tasks. They go on to explain that at the centre of the Canvas integration is a new kind of assignment called the LLM-Enabled Assignment which allows educators to design interactive, chat-based experiences inside Canvas using OpenAI’s large language models, […]

Some time ago, I posted an article about J Owen Matson’s ideas about a Posthumanist Epistemology for AI and Education. Since then Matson has gathered a growing audience in LinkedIn for his frequent although sometimes difficult blog posts. I promised to follow up with an article on his reflections on the future role for teachers. And here it is. Much of Matson’s work focuses on the nature of human and machine cognition. He builds on Katherine Hayles theory of cognition as “a process that interprets information in contexts that connect it to meaning.” Matson advances “a posthumanist view of AI-human […]

Donald Trump’s AI action plan has now been released, outlining the administration’s main goal for rapid growth of AI systems to compete with China. (You can read my less balanced view on it here.) This got me thinking about other national strategies, where they align, where they differ and what the future holds for education.  For professionals in AI and education, this is interesting for spotting future trends, updating what we teach, and preparing the next generation. Big Themes and What They Mean for Learning and Careers The analysis highlighted some common threads running through these national AI strategies. And […]

This poster summarises the results of a recent study by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) in the UK. The study investigated how secondary school science teachers could use ChatGPT to support lesson planning and preparation. T…

With the explosion in newsletters, I could easily spend all day just reading the latest outpourings. One I particularly like is the innovatively named Paul Kugman by Paul Krugman. As wikipedia explains he was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024.[7] In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography. It seems he left the New York Times in a dispute over content – he wanted to write a series about trade tariffs which the didn’t think was interesting! […]

There are seemingly endless calls for papers for journals these days. And most of them are pretty bland and boring. But not this one. Its great! “University as Infrastructure” to be published in Culture Machine:”Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers and information management systems, with spiraling costs across the sector as a whole. From virtual learning environments, digital attendance systems, human resources software, booking platforms, data repositories, and online teaching platforms to the basic provision of email and server space, much of the infrastructure of the contemporary marketised university is outsourced to big […]