Paul Allison

Flocking for Orchestra Linda Bouchard composer. Performed by the Victoria Symphony. A Live Structures project supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. For more information: www.livestructures.com

I love Linda Bouchard’s description of her ideation, inspiration, and tools: livestructures.com/2018/07/25/f... Flocking for Orchestra - Live Structures. I envision dancers with this piece! vimeo.com/338374149/4b...

Business Transformation with Applied AI

Imagine ED-General Catalyst redesigning schools w/ ”three key pillars: Intelligence pushes the frontiers of model capabilities, infrastructure builds the platforms and systems powered by that intelligence, and workforce enablement reimagines how work is done.” www.generalcatalyst.com/stories/busi...

YouTube video by Paul Allison TTT 07.30.2025 AI Simulators & Inquiry

In thi video, educators Debbie Abilock, Paul Allison, Bonnee Breese Bentum, Christiana Cantrill, David Cole, Jack Marmorstein, Sam Reed, & Chris Sloan discuss the integration of AI in teaching and learning.

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More on friction with AI: “AI makes the learning feel easy, and when something is easy, we assume we already know it. We need to insert deliberate friction into our learning process to avoid the illusion of competency trap.” open.substack.com/pub/ai494/p/...

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So many teacher stories to learn from:

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I just did a copy and paste of Terry's prompt. writingpartners.net/documents/79...
Some interesting possibilities here, but much more iteration and revision is needed to get this to be an effective tool for students. Question: How to write prompts that stop the LLM from teaching so much? #eduskyAI

Plug and Play: A Mentor Prompt to Strengthen Vocabulary Growth No More Giving Free Fish, Instead Giving Free Fishing Lessons

Can’t wait to try:“If learners learn most of their general vocabulary through osmosis, not through direct instruction, how can we set the stage for their becoming more metacognitive word learners through osmosis? I designed this mentor prompt for just this purpose.” open.substack.com/pub/terryu/p...

A lot to think about in this essay, especially how our teacher experience will differ from student experience … and more

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AI Tutors Are Teaching Kids to Fake Critical Thinking New AI tutors teach kids to fake critical thinking instead of developing it. Here's why this educational "breakthrough" damages developing minds.

Who could disagree with Timothy Cook’s argument that “real critical thinking requires exploring genuine uncertainty,” and that the Canvas-OpenAI example that he skewers is problematic. We should find examples of students interacting with AI in deeper ways. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

I have been collecting a diverse array of views on loneliness or being alone:

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I am reading around what my question might be, circling around.

Design Principles for Generative AI Applications Generative AI applications present unique design challenges. As generative AI technologies are increasingly being incorporated into mainstream applications, there is an urgent need for guidance on how...

I’m trying to understand how this brings agency: AI is the “first new UI interaction paradigm in 60 years… [it] shifts control over how computation is performed away from the user and toward generative AI models.” arxiv.org/abs/2401.14484 #eduskyAI

A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

Um… any privacy issues here? “It may prove hard to resist an artificial companion that knows everything about you, never forgets, and anticipates your needs better than any human could.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem | The New Yorker #eduskyAI

What a helpful framework. I can’t wait to use this as an outline for our redesign of writingPartners.net

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The Philosopher-Builder The AI age demands a new kind of technologist

“Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they are building for, in the deepest sense.” Love this open.substack.com/pub/cosmosin... #eduskyAI

YouTube video by Paul Allison TTT 07.16.2025 Will AI Add To or Help Mitigate Climate Change?

Thank you @debbieabilock.bsky.social and @breesebbusyphd.bsky.social for feedback on an AI inquiry process that includes repositories and simulators. #eduskyAI

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“We need to include young people in all conversations on artificial intelligence.“ There is so much here and it is so accessible! (You probably knew already.) unric.org/en/the-ai-ge... The AI Generation: Youth in the Artificial Intelligence Era #eduskyAI

Come see how a new repository feature on Writing Partners allows teachers and students to upload documents and to write a prompt to access the information in the PDFs that they have saved.

The use case that we will explore together: Will AI Add To or Help Mitigate Climate Change?

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Please consider joining us in www.kumospace.com/youthvoices?... on Wednesday, July 16th at 8E/7C/6M/5P to learn about a new inquiry method we are developing at writingpartners.net that involves creating an AI simulator, a resource with expertise in the domain that you are studying.

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TTT 07.16.2025 Will AI Add To or Help Mitigate Climate Change?
Wednesday evening, 8E/7C/6M/5P

Looking for some fun this summer? Want to stretch you assumptions and expectations for using AI to engender inquiry in the classroom?

Join us in www.kumospace.com/youthvoices?...

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"...thought is internalized conversation, and to understand how we think requires us to understand the nature of conversation; and any effort to understand conversation requires us to understand the nature of community life that generates and maintains conversation." doi.org/10.2307/376924 #eduskyAI

The designers & educators at writingpartners.net seek to stand in the “gap between the people who understand what the technology can do and the people who understand the classroom.” Our mission: to “represent both those views and to translate between them.” www.govtech.com/education/hi... #eduskyAI

I used an AI tool that I had designed to give me the structure and language for creating my own AI mentor to guide any project or inquiry. I did a freewite about my questions and this is what emerged: (see images) #eduskyAI

Are You Being Unfair to LLMs? | Towards Data Science They may deserve better.

LLMs “are not just prediction machines for the next word. Their internal activations think ahead to the end of a statement—they have a rudimentary plan in mind.” This pithy formation is helpful, and a bevy of resources in the bibliography here: towardsdatascience.com/are-you-bein... #eduskyAI

Lots of affirmation here for starting with a draft and ending with reflection, with both peer-to-peer and prompt-shaped AI response between. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR): A human-centered approach to formative assessment - ScienceDirect #eduskyAI

This is a breath of fresh air, inspiring our design work where “technology is not acting like a dictator but like a member of an online crowd of friends, offering tips that can be rejected or accepted.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... AI and the Trust Revolution. #eduskyAI

This is a pretty provocative claim to sake out. I can’t wait to be convinced, and more to the point: get insights into how to design with this shift in trust in mind. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... AI and the Trust Revolution: How Technology Is Transforming Human Connections #eduskyAI

@breesebbusyphd.bsky.social is presenting at ELATE today and she sent me this ncte.org/statement/ex... What’s missing from this statement are references to students going deeper in their thinking, sustaining effort, and expanding their creativity because of teacher-guided AI experiences. #eduskyAI

YouTube video by Paul Allison TTT 07.09.2025 Seeking feedback on a wireframe for a new Writing Partners

We invite you to add you comments to our discussion from last night, which includes feedback from educators on what works well and what doesn't in the current version of writingpartners.net, highlighting the need for a more intuitive interface, especially for students. #eduskyAI
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This approach to coding could be applied to teaching students how to think with AI. Writing prompts for AI assistants involves “habits [that] aren’t checklists, scripts, or hard-and-fast rules. They’re ways of thinking that help people use AI more productively.” www.oreilly.com/radar/the-se...

AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares Two substantial technological advances have reshaped the public square in recent decades: first with the advent of the internet and second with the recent introduction of large language models (LLMs)....

“Once generated, educational content could be placed in a database where it can be accessed by LLMs
(RAG), which would allow participants to ask questions about the domain, with the system returning responses citing the source material put together by the experts.” arxiv.org/abs/2412.09988 #eduskyAI