The AI Tsunami Is Here: Reinventing Education for the Age of AI In the age of artificial intelligence, higher education must move beyond content delivery toward interactionalism—a human-centered approach to learnin

A new concept of 'interactionalism' to describe teaching as a form of human-AI collaboration: Gamby, T., Kil, D., Koblic, R., LeBlanc, P., Moldoveneau, M., & Siemens, G. (2025, Sep. 18). The AI tsunami is here: Reinventing education for the age of AI. EDUCAUSE Review. er.educause.edu/articles/202...

Anthropic education report: How educators use Claude Research on 74,000 educator conversations shows how faculty use Claude for teaching, research, and building interactive learning tools.

New report from Anthropic: "How educators use Claude" (27 Aug 2025) www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

AI Literacy Practices Artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI (GenAI), is becoming more integrated into everyday life, work, and learning, bringing both opportunities and challenges. In this context, it is e...

A new encyclopedia entry on 'AI literacy practices' which I co-authored with Katrina Tour and Shem Macdonald has just been published link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

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Just out - a report containing case studies of postgrad students' uses of AI: 'Postgraduate Students Using AI in their Learning' (HKBU/CHTL, 2025) heyzine.com/flip-book/13...

AI as a Thought Partner in Higher Education When used thoughtfully and transparently, generative artificial intelligence can augment creativity and challenge assumptions, making it an excellent

A thoughtful piece on genAI's role in developing thoughtfulness - 'AI as a Thought Partner in Higher Education' (Brian Basgen, EDUCAUSE Review, 2025) er.educause.edu/articles/202...

For those working on AI in education, my new open access paper is just out, based on a keynote I did last year doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Friendship in the Age of Digital Simulation Only echoes.

Why friendship needs friction: Nick Carr on 'Friendship in the age of digital simulation' (Substack) www.newcartographies.com/p/friendship...

Super jagged literacies | 4 | Superdiversity, jagged profiles, and dig This conceptual chapter explores how the development of digital literacies can contribute to digital empowerment for refugee and migrant learners. It brings

My newest book chapter on digital literacies: 'Super jagged literacies: Superdiversity, jagged profiles, and digital literacies in refugee and migrant education' in E. Tour et al. (Eds.), Digital empowerment for refugee and migrant learners, Routledge doi.org/10.4324/9781...

<em>British Journal of Educational Technology</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library Abstract With the continuous development of technological and educational innovation, learners nowadays can obtain a variety of supports from agents such as teachers, peers, education technologies, ...

We're seeing more of these empirical papers appearing showing a negative effect of genAI use on students' metacognitive skills, or their critical skills more broadly. Here's another one: Fan, Y., et al. (2025). Beware of metacognitive laziness, BJET. doi.org/10.1111/bjet...

'NEXUS' – A new book from Yuval Noah Harari (out September 2024) 'NEXUS: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI' (published Sept 2024) is a non-fiction book by Yuval Noah Harari. In this thrilling new work, the historian and bestselling au...

"AI isn't a tool - it's an agent." Yuval Noah Harari's newest book, Nexus, is well worth a read for those of us trying to get a handle on where AI fits into education and society (www.ynharari.com/book/nexus/)

Meditations for Mortals | Oliver Burkeman

"In an age of attention scarcity, the greatest act of good citizenship may be learning to withdraw your attention from everything except the battles you've chosen to fight." I'm enjoyng Oliver Burkeman's new book, Meditations for Mortals (www.oliverburkeman.com/meditationsf...)

Talk to Santa | AI Santa by Tavus Live video chat with Santa Claus anytime, anywhere! Talk to Santa in real-time across 30+ languages, check if you're on the Naughty or Nice list, and even have fun testing Santa's patience—all for fre...

'Talk to Santa' - a cute AI application that might be fun to try out with language learners (or other students) as Xmas approaches: santa.tavus.io.

This looks relevant to my interests: Critical AI, a new interdisciplinary journal based at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis. Their blog includes a number of resources including a guide for students on Critical AI Literacies.

criticalai.org

Enabling Equitable Generative AI Access at Yale Yale University is engaging with Solliance and Microsoft to develop a multimodal generative artificial intelligence tool for all members of the univer

Interesting to read how Yale is handling equity in genAI access. I really like the helpful distinction made between 3 types of AI interfaces: chatbots, agents and copilots. er.educause.edu/articles/spo...

It was time to make the switch to Bluesky. Great to see lots of colleagues already here!