When students all have their own avatars trained on their life story, we might be in real trouble. At the moment, there's enough friction when creating personalized AI podcasts that I'm not worried yet. Especially if teachers prioritize collaboration, iteration and process over the final product.

I was thinking about that as I was writing this. As the tech changes, I believe there will still be surprising benefits to multimedia for assessment. Each layer of media (writing>audio> video) adds new opportunities for humanity that are easier to offer personally than they are to copy digitally.

All teachers should read this

Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81

Sebastião Salgado, a celebrated Brazilian photographer whose striking images of humanity and nature in the Amazon rainforest and beyond won him some of the world’s top honors and made him a household name, has died at 81.

The state of research on AI and education from controlled studies: Growing evidence that, when used as a tutor with instructor guidance, AI seems to have quite significant positive effects. When used alone to get help with homework, it can act as shortcut that hurts learning.

Still early days.

Gratitude and Optimism: A Reflection on Khan Academy’s Approach to AI for Educators Khan Academy featured a guest post from our Mindful AI for Education team

Kristen DiCerbo, @khanacademy.org Chief Learning Officer, visited our school in April and talked about their methodology for developing tools like Khanmigo and the importance of the teacher-student relationship. #EduSky #AIEdu

📝 mindfulaiedu.substack.com/p/gratitude-...

I don’t mean to be a broken record but AI development could stop at the o3/Gemini 2.5 level and we would have a decade of major changes across entire professions & industries (medicine, law, education, coding…) as we figure out how to actually use it & adapt our systems.

AI disruption is baked in.

We don’t need AI to think for us—we need it to think with us.
Co-agency in classrooms starts with intentional design.

🤔 How are you using AI as a thought partner or teaching assistant? We're looking for some great examples to share 👀.

#EduSky #AiEdu

I’m really grateful for their perspective on all this. Just picked up AI Snake Oil. I think regardless of whether they’re right or wrong, they’re taking a really important stance for the moment we’re in.

Guest Blog Post: Jake Kelly, Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, AZ Jake Kelly has taught visual and media arts at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona since 2016. He teaches Journalism, Digital Photography, AP Studio ... Read more

Gratitude and optimism: my primary takeaways after Khan Academy’s CLO @kristendicerbo.bsky.social came to speak about AI at our school.

Here’s my reflection about her presentation from KA’s Blog.

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@khanacademy.org
@mindfulaiedu.bsky.social
#aiedu #edusky

This is comprehensive! Totally agree.

The most compelling argument for and against Educational Technology in Schools I found myself on a parent thread on my Raising Digital Leaders account, where a few parents shared that they are calling for the abolition of Educational technology, citing a video called, The mos…

If you are an advocate of EdTech, I would love your opinion on this post I wrote: The argument for and against technology in schools: jcasatodd.com/the-most-com... #TLSky #EduSky

YouTube video by Kino Border Initiative/Iniciativa Kino para la Frontera Border Spotlight | April 14

Imagine being any kind of migrant right now. We've got folks who are really struggling to find pathways to any country that will validate their humanity. It's important to support agencies like Kino Border Initiative.

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When it comes to AI integration, a Both/And approach feels like a more productive way to intentionally operate in the healthy and necessary tensions educators all face. #EDUSky #AiEdu

Stages Of A Self-Directed Learning Model The goal of the model isn't content knowledge (though it should produce that), but rather something closer to wisdom--learning how to learn.

Stages Of A Self-Directed Learning Model
#EduSky
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Are you using AI to enhance student feedback? This week @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social keeps digging into practical ways to partner with AI without sacrificing your voice and direction. #EduSky #AiEdu #EdTech

I’m sick of getting added to these random group chats in Signal

Three Approaches to Collaborating with AI to Provide Students with Feedback Using AI for feedback can take different forms

Great frameworks for using AI for feedback from @danikachorskyphd.bsky.social

Three Approaches to Collaborating with AI to Provide Students with Feedback

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Evidence that a well prompted LLM can help learning from a (small, single-subject) randomized controlled trial at Harvard: “here we show that students learn more than twice as much in less time with an AI tutor compared to an active learning classroom, while also being more engaged and motivated.”

Gaming has strayed too far from what it once was. We need to go back to our roots. Bring back big head modes and cheat codes that unlock silly costumes

A thread on the difficulties of learning to code. Studies show that roughly 1/3 of incoming Comp Sci majors do not progress to their 2nd year, often due to the difficulty of the subject and lack of preparation. 🧵

#EduSky #AiEdu #Coding

Learning Through Liking: The Appeal of Vibe Coding Why Vibe Coders Start with Fun and Curiosity, Then Figure Out the Rest Later

A new post from me on my thoughts about vibe coding in education spaces.

#edusky #aiforedu

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[Sigh].

A) Jelani Cobb is a great journalist and teacher of journalism and he oversaw his students as they did superb and vital work covering the protests on their campus.

B) He is telling them (as he says later) the honest and brutal truth: their school can't protect them from the Fed Govt.

If you have used LLM image generators, you know they are hard to control: LLM had to send a prompt to a separate image generation tool, it did not not make the image.

Gemini is the first public release of a full multimodal LLM that can directly make images. This allows the systems to do detail work

sometimes I feel like people who freak out about keeping science fiction and fantasy separate and distinct are like that little kid who doesn't want the peas and carrots to touch on their plate.

It's all imaginative fiction, folks.

Genius!

I just had to come back to bluesky and thank you one more time for this tip as I'm working on lesson plans 😂 so, thanks!

Honestly this feels like the whole game. Clear vision, can’t lose.

Does AI Kill Critical Thinking? Maybe Not If We Use It Right. Jeanne Beatrix Law's Response to the Recent Microsoft Study's Claims of AI Over-Reliance This article has been republished with permission from Nick Potkalitsky, PhD. It originally appeared in his blog, Educating AI. Nick’s Intro: For the past week or two, the AI x Education space has been absolutely buzzing about Microsoft's bombshell

Does AI Kill Critical Thinking? Maybe Not If We Use It Right Educate AI
Regarding AI automating tasks, “this doesn’t mean we’re thinking less. It means our thinking is changing. And that shift can be an opportunity rather than a loss—if we learn how to use AI intentionally.”
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Brilliant!