Thomas Claeys

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Now would be a good time for the Americans to stand up against their tirant... #OnTyranny

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How I actually used GenAI in 2025 - Thomas Claeys If you feel a bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of AI tools out there right now, you are certainly not alone. With a new model or breakthrough announcing itself every week, simply figuring out what ...

How I actually used generative AI in 2025
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We Need Better EdTech - Not Less of It Why schools should fix how technology is used, not retreat from it.

Jup! This 👇
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'Technology Isn’t Optional. Intentionality Is.'

"Hello, World!"... revisited The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai

I belive education is about *people*.
In my latest newsletter I argue that we should be intentional in nurturing human interaction in education and resist the false promise of convenience exerted by the sadly ubiquitous GenAI.
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Dein Haus

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💡 Tired of cloud-dependent AI for research?

Learn to use (mostly) local, tailored AI with #Zotero & #Obsidian! Explore your literature, notes and thoughts in a privacy-respecting way. Bring your own LLM's 🤓

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Building Capacity for Educational Excellence: The Role of Digital Learning Support - Thomas Claeys Conversations about technology in higher education often swing between two extremes. On one side, there is immense optimism that digital tools will revolutionise teaching. On the other, there is a war...

A clear sign of institutional maturity is when digital learning support stops being a reactive service and starts being treated as a proactive driver of educational excellence. #HigherEd #EdTech #AcademicSky

AI Without the Handover: Managing Research with Model Context Protocol - Thomas Claeys I've got hundreds of papers in Zotero. When I need to reference something, I know it's in there somewhere—a study about student feedback, that framework on assessment design, the article with the perf...

Can you get the benefits of LLMs and Semantic Search without handing your digital brain over to OpenAI?

My latest note explores using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to bridge Claude Desktop with my local Zotero and Readeck databases. #mcp #ai #zotero

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The Struggle We Don't Name: AI and the Grief of Professional Identity - Thomas Claeys When we discuss Generative AI in education, the conversation often defaults to technical skills. But there is so much more to this shift than 'literacy' or tool mastery. The further we go, the clearer...

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The Peril of Pedagogical & Strategic Paralysis - Thomas Claeys Nearly three years after generative AI exploded into the mainstream, a strange quiet has settled over much of higher education. The initial, acute panic over plagiarism has faded, but it hasn't been r...

Nearly 3 years after the GenAI boom, why does much of higher ed seem stuck? ... This hesitation is a missed opportunity. We're facing an adaptive challenge, not a technical one.
I wrote about the need to move beyond paralysis and proactively redesign core missions. #highered #ai #education

How I built a private AI to conquer my reading list - Thomas Claeys There is a Japanese word, 'tsundoku,' for the habit of buying books and letting them pile up unread. My pile was digital: a long list of blogs and articles on teaching, learning, generative AI... The ...

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Books for HigherEd Professionals 2026 - Thomas Claeys Looking for your next read? These eight books won't all sit comfortably together on a shelf—which is exactly the point. They range from scathing critiques of neoliberal universities to surprisingly pr...

Looking for your next read? #highered

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XR's Journey into Mainstream - Thomas Claeys Bare with me. The year is 2010 and I have my first day of internship as a teacher in training. The class: Ancient History. In my bag are three items that I

Re-reading my old post: XR failed to hit mainstream education, stayed niche.

Will Generative AI follow? It's a great productivity hack, but will it truly transform teaching/learning, or just remain a powerful add-on? Maybe being general-purpose is its edge. #EdTech #AIinEducation #HigherEd

Fueling the spark: why some highered innovations catch fire - Thomas Claeys Every truly revolutionary tool on campus has a story. Not the story of its features, but of its impact: a colleague who finally perfected their dream seminar, a team that unlocked a new way to collabo...

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Why Intention and AI Go Hand in Hand - Thomas Claeys The discussion about AI in education often gets bogged down in practical questions: are you allowed to use it, and how do we then ensure ownership and reliability? While relevant, these questions stem...

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Speak truth to power And other thoughts about a difficult week in the US

Speak truth to power, from Professor Tim Snyder.

Navigating the wicked problem of AI and assessment A constant theme in my recent conversations with teachers, faculty teams and educational developers is the challenge of Generative AI (GenAI) and assessment. There's a palpable sense of pressure in th...

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Building my sixth tool for qualitative analysis with Generative AI For the past few years, I've been experimenting with various large language models (LLMs) and tools to better understand the sense and none-sense of generative AI (GenAI). In my quest for meaningful a...

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Dit is fascisme Fascisme begint met taal, niet met tanks. Met democratische verkiezingen, niet met een staatsgreep. En het krijgt vrij baan, dankzij mensen die denken dat het allemaal niet zo’n vaart zal lopen – tot ...

Excellent analysis here, hope the English version is forthcoming.
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Defend your institutions

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The AI-generated intro videos at Google I/O ’25 are impressive, but I miss the quality of decades of expertise that (3D) artists and videographers bring. I hope we keep valuing true human artistry... or start doing again soon.

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Geef het nog even. De brillen met AI hud komen weldra de markt op...

Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

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Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

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Op onderzoek met kleine, selectieve sample group, gesponsord door Microsoft's Surface pen+tablets, vrij enge conclusies (breinactiviteit=leren?)... www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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Mind-boggling events. The results are increasingly terrifying as they continue to cross new lines.

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