Carole Fuchs

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias. India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

“An MIT Technology Review investigation finds that caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT.”

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Are Ontario’s middle schools hurting student achievement? A new report says yes — but that’s not the whole story C.D. Howe Institute study says students who switch to middle schools in Grade 6 score “significantly worse” on standardized tests, reigniting debate.

Ontario students who switch to middle schools in Grade 6 score “significantly worse” on standardized literacy and math tests than peers who stay in the same school, according to a recent report.

N.L.'s 10-year education action plan cites sources that don't exist | CBC News A major report on modernizing the education system in Newfoundland and Labrador is peppered with fake sources some educators say were likely fabricated by generative artificial intelligence.

How is this not fraud?

When professionals use genAI to do work that they're being paid to do themselves, and don't check it, and turn it in, and accept payment for the incorrect slop they've claimed was their own work, how is it not fraud?

Teachers and school librarians, I really want to encourage you to talk to you students about generative AI. Not just teach critical AI literacy, but actually engage with them in conversation about what they think about it and what they think of the consequences of using it are. Talk to them!

UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643

"It is irresponsible if ScienceDirect continues to have these AI features. The AI generated texts on ScienceDirect spread misinformation and pollute the scientific knowledge infrastructure. This harms science, researchers, lecturers, students, and ultimately also the public."

‘Oh no, my childhood,’ Nickelodeon, Disney XD, among kids channels to be axed by Corus Entertainment - NOW Toronto Canadian children will soon have fewer television networks to enjoy as Corus Entertainment prepares to axe several kids channels.

Canadian children will soon have fewer television networks to enjoy as Corus Entertainment prepares to axe several kids channels by the end of summer. #Corus #Canada

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I might have lost funding but at least I can do what I want. :) And I want to teach people about AI ethics in 90 second increments! bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...

Canadian teachers want lessons on how to ethically incorporate AI into classrooms | CBC News Canadian teachers say they lack instruction on how to use AI educationally and ethically in the classroom. The complaint comes as three major tech companies are teaming up with teacher unions in the U...

Hot take: Yes, teachers need to learn how to use AI and how to leverage it to help students learn even better.

But, policies that already exist to support and regulate technology use in schools (e.g. laptops, cell phones, email) apply to AI. Nothing is new.

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Dublin-based nonprofit lays off 80 central Ohio workers, cites AI and federal cuts DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — A Dublin-based organization that manages the Dewey Decimal System and partners with libraries worldwide has laid off dozens of central Ohio employees, citing the rise of…

OCLC laying off staff due to AI and federal cuts.

www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n... Dublin-based nonprofit lays off 80 central Ohio workers, cites AI and federal cuts | NBC4 WCMH-TV

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results In a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one.

A Pew study of 900 U.S. adults confirms the obvious: people click less when AI overviews answer their questions on Google. It’s no longer if web traffic and ad revenue will drop, it’s by how much.

The real question now is how small does the web get?

Trump funding cuts to PBS set to hit free educational content for kids Looming federal funding cuts for PBS put in jeopardy some of the most-used educational videos and games shown to help children improve in literacy and other social skills.  The cuts, part of a…

Looming federal funding cuts for PBS put in jeopardy some of the most-used educational videos and games shown to help children improve in literacy and other social skills.  The cuts, part of a $9 b...

Schools face ‘unsustainable’ rise in AI-generated complaints Parents’ use of AI in making complaints means schools are having to deal with complex letters loaded with references to the law, leaders warn

But AI is promised to "save schools time"?

"schools are not only getting an increasing number of complaints generated by AI but they are also having to dedicate more staff time to dealing with them ... 'and that really multiplies the workload'" www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

School board takeover: Don’t be fooled. It is not about finances — it’s power politics Ontario's education minister claims the current TDSB takeover is about finances, this is largely a smokescreen. Rather, it is about the Ford government asserting its conservative vision of education o...

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The history of Canada in Heritage Minutes - YouTube Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event

I put all the Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event so you don't have to. 🇨🇦

(I was looking for this and couldn't find it, so it became a weird hobby. It genuinely may be of interest only to me.)

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Nobody likes to take exams — but they might be more valuable than you think | CBC Radio Final exams can be stressful — and across Canada, they’re increasingly being phased out in high schools. Still, many educators say well-designed exams are important tools for evaluating both student l...

Nobody likes to take exams — but they might be more valuable than you think | CBC Radio

Untold Stories It’s hard to access archives of Black art—Getty wants to change that

"Too many collections remain hidden due to limited resources, backlogged catalogs, and technological barriers" @gettymuseum.bsky.social www.getty.edu/news/untold-...

Inside Disney’s Campaign to Protect Darth Vader From AI Disney’s top lawyer says his lawsuit against Midjourney is just the first step in a plan to limit AI companies' use of the studio's most valuable characters.

Disney, the reason copyright laws now last life of author + 70 years, is suing Midjourney for training its models on its characters like Darth Vader and Deadpool.

They carefully chose a small enough company to not have a high powered legal team but would affect the entire industry if they lose.

Similar to asbestos or unexploded munitions, the fallout of the LLM era will persist long after the apps are abandoned, because their outputs have been snuck into the corpus by copy-pasting fools.

The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.

You sound like ChatGPT AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

You sound like ChatGPT

I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

‘It’s so boring’: Gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids - and educators are worried Screen time has increasingly replaced story time, and experts warn this could lead to children falling behind

‘It’s so boring’: Gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids - and educators are worried - The Guardian
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These testimonies reinforce exactly what I'm hearing as I go present at schools and universities about how to adapt to teaching writing in an AI world.

1. Schools and institutions embracing the technology while also requiring instructors to police academic integrity is a disaster. (cont.)

Teachers Are Not OK AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

www.404media.co/teachers-are...

Toronto Catholic school board warns of 'dangerous' trending social media challenges | CBC News The Toronto Catholic District School Board is warning parents about "dangerous" social media challenges that are trending among students in Ontario schools.

Toronto Catholic school board warns of 'dangerous' trending social media challenges | CBC News
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The Myth of Automated Learning AI's real threat to education.

The real threat of AI to education isn’t just that students cheat but instead that students never learn anything because they no longer have to think critically or understand topics to graduate with good grades.

The intellectual regression we’ve seen in modern life will only accelerate.

A number of stories of companies replacing workers with AI are simply CEOs putting a positive tech spin on cost cutting.

It’s telling that instead of stories of how AI enables companies to do more, we mostly hear about AI enabling companies to do the same (or lower quality work) with fewer workers.