Wayne Holmes

The False Promise of AI in Classrooms | IE Insights AI is changing classrooms fast—but not always for the better. Professor Wayne Holmes of University College London explains why tools like ChatGPT won’t fix education and what we risk by misunderstandi...

Unlike MOOCs and learning management systems, generative AI entered higher education at the student level. LLMs like ChatGPT essentially appeared overnight & students around the world were suddenly using them. @wayne-holmes.bsky.social on how AI is changing the classroom: www.ie.edu/insights/vid...

Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Democrats Urged to Bow Down to Tech Fascism As tech billionaires embrace Trump's authoritarianism, consultants urge Democrats to bend the knee in the name of Silicon Valley 'innovation.'

Democrats Urged to Bow Down to Tech Fascism

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800 Olympic Swimming pools a day, the same as 100,000 hosepipes on all the time.

That is how much water is leaking from the Water Companies broken pipes.

But it is you they blame.

Norway has increased its Student Grant to more than 14,000 Euros.

It is now paying its Students 1.5x more than England, Wales and Northern Ireland are charging them.

One of us had our fossil fuel stolen and sold by thieves. The other didn't.

Can you guess which is which?

Human-level AI is not inevitable. We have the power to change course | Garrison Lovely Technology happens because people make it happen. We can choose otherwise

Human-level AI is not inevitable.

“It’s obvious why so many capitalists are AI enthusiasts: they foresee a technology that can achieve their long-time dream of cutting workers out of the loop (and the balance sheet).”

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Typical: white man at an AI conference trying to convince the small group of women and people of color that AI bias isn't that big of a deal, coz all isms are overrated anyway.

Water - Privatised, worst ever
Trains - Privatised, worst ever
Energy - Privatised, worst ever
Mail - Privatised, worst ever
Oil & Gas - Privatised, worst ever
Air Traffic Control - Privatised, worst ever

NHS - Being Privatised, worst ever

Hugely worrying for teachers.

If I asked nicely, do you think they’d fund me? Just asking. 🐟

If the Green Party had the same coverage as Reform it would be them winning in a landslide.

But of course the Green Party would actually tax the billionaires, so they won't platform them.

Why does Starmer's Labour Party seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
Because it hates the left more than it fears the far right.
As a result it won't do the "left" things so many of its potential supporters are crying out for.

He’s just a really nasty piece of work. Completely odious man.

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

Local Elections: 'Keir Starmer's Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage' Labour's embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher

"The Labour party’s current course is creating the conditions for the Faragists to thrive and drag politics even further rightwards."

Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher on where Labour is going wrong

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This paper really does put the boot into all those "educational genomics" studies and books from the last 15 years

"there are serious flaws in any program of predicting or controlling outcomes in education based on genomic variations"

AI 2027 A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

@garymarcus.bsky.social

I'd love to read your response to this: ai-2027.com

where to start without all the words coming together and forming a piercing, incoherent, screaming sound...

The way "AI" systems are presented as "social companions to fight loneliness" is very similar in how "AI" is supposed to help teaching: Both are founded in a massive misunderstanding of the social dynamics techies try to replace.

Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time Exclusive: education secretary exploring tools to compile student reports and assess writing and vocational skills

Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time. Spoiler alert. It doesn’t. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hi Shannon. I'm currently editing the 'Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Education', due for submission in May. Here's a link to the call for chapters: www.edtech.ut.ee/csaied/handb... Some of your Edinburgh colleagues are involved. Please say if you'd like to learn more.