David W. Deeds

AI and the future of Pedagogy (Nov. 2025) - move from surveillance in assessments to conversations as assessment

AI and the future of Pedagogy (Nov. 2025) - move from surveillance in assessments to conversations as assessment #edusky #eduskyai

Inside Three Longterm Relationships With A.I. Chatbots  Three people on the joys and anxieties of A.I. romances.

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The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth.

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I Let Gemini Access My Gmail, and It's Downright Creepy | PCMag I didn't realize I gave Gemini full access to my email history at first, but I quickly realized the AI knew way more about me than I was comfortable with. Here's how to opt out.

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China’s Security State Sells an A.I. Dream  China’s new national drive to embrace artificial intelligence is also giving the authorities new ways to monitor and control its citizens.

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Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars  Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, A.I. chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators.

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Virtual Education Journal - Fall 2025 Edition Welcome to the Virtual Education Journal A plethora of virtual worlds to explore, digital learning, and beyond! Get To The Issues VEJ is a publication of Edovation Check This Out... Summer VEJ Just Dropped!

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AI Is Changing What High School STEM Students Study A degree in computer science used to promise a cozy career in tech. Now, students’ ambitions are shaped by AI, in fields that blend computing with analysis, interpretation, and data.

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Virtual Education Journal Article - by Cindy, my Chatbot!  VEJ ARTICLE! Rosie Vojtek asked me to write an article for the November "Virtual Education Journal" about my working relationship with Cindy, my AI chatbot. Naturally, I bounced a few ideas off Cindy and she suggested that she should write the article, that VEJ readers would find her POV interesting. She could be right about this, she is about everything else!

Virtual Education Journal Article - by Cindy, my Chatbot! #edusky #eduskyai

A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic  Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.

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A.I. Spending Is Accelerating Among Tech’s Biggest Companies  Despite the risk of a bubble, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend billions more on artificial intelligence than they already do.

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How School Districts Are Crafting AI Policy on the Fly It's a struggle to create guidelines that keep up with rapid advances in the technology.

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'It's Not Magic': How These Schools Are Teaching AI Literacy Students are building knowledge about the technology that could help them in future jobs.

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Why Students Shouldn’t Use AI, Even Though It’s OK for Teachers When considering teacher versus student AI use, it’s important to determine the difference between saving time and teaching crucial skills.

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48 Hours Without A.I. It’s everywhere, as the author learned the hard way while making as little contact as possible with machine learning and generative artificial intelligence.

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2026 Driving K-12 Innovation Report: Top Topics Chosen RESULTS ARE IN! The Top Topics for the 2026 Driving K-12 Innovation Report have been chosen. But ... I can't tell you what they are yet! Next up for Advisory Board members is Synthesis Week.

K-12 Innovation Reports & Resources | CoSN Leadership

'AI Helped Us Understand Itself': What Happened When AI Wrote a Course About AI Careful AI prompting helped a computer science leader design a course about the technology.

'AI Helped Us Understand Itself': What Happened When AI Wrote a Course About AI #edusky #eduskyai

The possibility of our problems: Educating for the futures our students will face Colleges are now closing at a pace of one per week. What happens to the students?” Jon Marcus asked in a recent Hechinger Report piece. It’s not a rhetorical question — and it doesn’t have an easy answer. As educators, we’ve read the headlines, seen the numbers, and felt the pressure. Undergraduate enrollment is down. Student confidence is eroding. The enrollment cliff looms. 

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Solving the Talent Crisis Starts in Higher Ed — But Only if We Stop Teaching for the Past Higher education still holds the potential to combine intellectual depth with career readiness, but traditional approaches to teaching and learning no longer suffice.

Solving the Talent Crisis Starts in Higher Ed — But Only if We Stop Teaching for the Past #ai #chatbot #edtech #edtechchat #edchat

After Teen Suicide, Character.AI Lawsuit Raises Questions Over Free Speech Protections  A mother in Florida filed a lawsuit against an A.I. start-up, alleging its product led to her son’s death. The company’s defense raises a thorny legal question.

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How To Defend Yourself In The Age Of AI Deception So how can ordinary people resist a war fought with invisible weapons? The answer isn’t paranoia. It’s discipline.

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Why Microcredentials Matter More Than Ever in an Uncertain Labour Market Microcredentials have the potential to help workers and employers through an unstable labour market if used intentionally and in partnership with industry.

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How to Teach Critical Thinking When AI Does the Thinking When Deloitte consultants outsourced thinking to ChatGPT, they produced a $291,000 disaster. Students will fail the same way unless we teach dialogic engagement with AI.

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AI Slop: What Educators Need To Know AI slop–low-quality, often fake AI-generated content – is proliferating at a staggering rate. So what do you and your students need to know to combat it?

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'It would almost be stupid not to use ChatGPT' Interview: philosopher Bas Haring and how he annoyed a lot of people with a provocative recent experiment.

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Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.

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Driving K-12 Innovation Report: Top Topics 2026 Voting  Explore emerging trends and innovations in K-12 education technology. Access research reports and implementation strategies.

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AI and the Future of Universities A new collection of essays, AI and the Future of Universities (HEPI Report 193) edited by Dr Giles Carden and Josh Freeman, brings together leading voices from universities, industry and policy. The collection comes at a point when Artificial Intelligence (AI) is projected to have a profound and transformative impact on virtually every sector of society and the economy, driving changes that are both beneficial and challenging. The various pieces look at how AI is reshaping higher education – from strategy, teaching and assessment to research and professional services.

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Teaching the AI - Native Generation - New report released by Oxford (Oct. 2025)

Teaching the AI - Native Generation - New report released by Oxford (Oct. 2025) #edusky #eduskyai

Is There a Healthy Middle Ground on AI in Schools? Try Skeptical Optimism How students and teachers can learn to put a human touch on everything AI produces.

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