Mike Kentz

Stop Skimming Chats, Start Annotating Them The next step in the development of a transcript-based pedagogy

Students want guidance on ethical AI use - and they want it surfaced in classrooms rather than hidden.

What better way than to analyze our chats together?

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Preparing Students for an AI-Infused Workforce - Ithaka S+R How can colleges and universities best prepare students to enter an increasingly AI-centered and infused workforce?

Nobody captures it better than Claire Baytas at @ithakasr.bsky.social . Dive into her sharp recap here:

#AIinEducation #EduAI #AIEdu

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Top takeaways:
1️⃣ AI fluency plus soft & domain skills > shiny gimmicks.
2️⃣ Faculty feel swamped—process-over-product grading looks promising.
3️⃣ Higher ed can MOVE the puck, not just chase it.

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Last month I sat in on the University of Baltimore 2025 #AISummit. Four weeks later the themes still ring loud—AI’s workforce impact, classroom realities, and who’s really steering the puck.

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From Thinking Partner to Sparring Partner: A Better Way to Use AI Why AI as a 'thinking partner' is making us intellectually weaker -- and what to do instead

And I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences.

Have you engaged this way — or asked your students to “spar” with AI? What were your conclusions, results, takeaways?

#AIEdu #AIinEducation #AIinEdu

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From Thinking Partner to Sparring Partner: A Better Way to Use AI Why AI as a 'thinking partner' is making us intellectually weaker -- and what to do instead

“Sparring” with #GenAI involves moving past the “collaborative thinking partner” modality that has become the norm over the last year.

But it’s only the beginning.

Check out the post for a free download of nine sparring prompts to get started.

#AIEdu

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(Check out John Swope and Peter Shea’s work for more on simulations.)

And Michelle Kassorla often says we need to teach students to “fight back against the #AI” during chats. Her approach underscores the need for more of this method.

#AIEdu #EduAI #AIinEducation

Brainstorming with an assistant #bot? Push, prod, and poke holes in its “ideas” to expand creativity, critical thinking, and the quality of outputs.

Building a custom bot? Set it up as a simulation of a skill - an adversarial interaction that requires students to push back.

#AIEdu #EduAI

From Thinking Partner to Sparring Partner: A Better Way to Use AI Why AI as a 'thinking partner' is making us intellectually weaker -- and what to do instead

The most successful use case I found for putting AI in front of students was to ask them to “spar” with AI — rather than brainstorm, learn, or speed up productivity.

Chatting with a character bot? Be an investigative journalist.

@leonfurze.com #AIEdu #EduAI

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Gotta imagine this is happening everywhere right now

Also … Hoya Saxa! (Your handle)

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Yes-right now students don’t really know they have that option. They think of AI as a fact vending machine or smarter than them, so they assume they should accept everything it suggests.

Agreed. Now we just have to get students to understand this, I think.

Your title reminds me of the movie Heavyweights:

"Lunch has been cancelled - due to a lack of hustle."

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Everyone Breaks These Laws Copyright’s profound impact on the online world as we know it   This book is a captivating exploration of the profound impact of American copyright law on...

Delighted to announce CBI Research Fellow (& close friend & collaborator) Prof. Gerardo Con Díaz's (Con's) stellar new book is out (got to read it early & blurb it).

Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World.

Congrats Con! #histtech

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Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

Tip of the iceberg indeed.

Could this require a return to an oral tradition?

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Friend just sent this to me.

Read the first letter of every name in the Gemini contributors list.

What do you think? Will you go down the AI ASMR rabbit hole?

Molten Lava Eating ASMR Prompt: OneChat AI Video Generation: Veo 3 #ai #asmr #asmrvideo #asmrsounds #satisfying #oddlysatisfying #lava TikTok video by Leilani

And here's one of a woman eating a molten lava cake -- 645k likes:

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Yeti-Boo here 😁✌️ I have to admit, I alsmot fell asleep to this one #vlog #wilderness #wildrrness #yetiboo #asmr TikTok video by Yeti-Boo

Yeti Boo cuts ice and taps pine cones....

...and already has 450k subs in just over two weeks.

Pretty satisfying:

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Cutting Glass Fruits into Slice #asmr #asmrsounds #satisfying #berries #fruit #impossibleais #inpossibleais #Impossibleals TikTok video by impossibleais

I feel bad for all the #ASMR folks on YouTube.

#AI is coming for them next.

AI ASMR accounts are racking up huge numbers on #Tiktok. This one launched one week ago and already has thousands of followers:

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Olivia Moore on X: "Glass fruits appears to be the most popular genre so far, though I am also partial to the molten lava-themed videos https://t.co/GJwrOJU0n1" / X Glass fruits appears to be the most popular genre so far, though I am also partial to the molten lava-themed videos https://t.co/GJwrOJU0n1

And here's another account of cutting molten lava rocks.

Yes, you read that right.

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Yeti Boo makes videos cutting ice and tapping pine cones...

...and has 450k subs in two weeks.

Not gonna lie - I'm pretty entertained.

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What about you?

What’s this say to you—and how are you managing this balance?

#AIliteracy #cognition #creativity #writing #education #AIinEducation #EduAI #AIinEdu #EduSky

This data also confirms something for me:

Utilizing a Flipped Classroom + In-Class Paper and Pen for early unit content mastery is crucial before AI use.

But if I write first—then engage in deep, critical dialogues with AI during revision?

Not only does my writing improve, but my understanding of my own project deepens.

My awareness expands.

(I’ll have to get an EEG at home to track my brain activity next.)

I'm seeing the same thing in my creative writing research.

When I use #AI in the early stages of my #writing, it leaves an uncomfortable imprint on my mind that’s difficult to undo. I don’t like it.

But — there's a twist:

Writers who started without AI and later adopted it showed improved engagement and richer revision.

Writers who relied on AI early struggled when it was removed.

Memory and authorship dropped sharply.

Only 17% of ChatGPT users could recall their own sentences.

Nearly 90% of unaided writers could.

Language quality was more homogenous with #ChatGPT.

LLM-written essays clustered tightly and reused the same phrases.

Brain-only essays were more original.