Dwayne Ripley

you'll probably never see one that isn't a full page of ads moving forward.

Professional practice and knowledgeable action in turbulent times: rediscovering mètis Chapter forthcoming in: J. Higgs, D. Tasker, N. Patten, & J. Orrell (Eds.), Shaping wise futures: a shared responsibility. Leiden: Brill. Abstract There are many ways of describing and categori…

I received a request today for a copy of this chapter I wrote for a book edited by Joy Higgs and colleagues. Published in 2022. Ask me for a copy if you'd like one. An extended summary is here: petergoodyear.net/2021/08/07/p...

#ProfessionalEducation

News Influencers Fact Sheet About one-in-five U.S. adults say they regularly get news from news influencers on social media, and this is especially common among younger adults.

About one-in-five U.S. adults (21%) say they regularly get news from news influencers on social media. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, that figure jumps to 38%.

My MA Learning Sciences and Tech dissertation investigated how edtech used research. One way was to justify or give credibility to what they were already doing. Essentially it was cherry-picking research and research language to make evidence-based claims. Not all, but many.

I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...

I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence.

This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.

You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...

New Online Course: The Practical AI Process I'm excited to launch a new course offering AI professional development for educators. The Practical AI Process covers GenAI from foundation to advanced levels. Learn more in the article.

I'm excited to launch a new course offering AI professional development for educators. The Practical AI Process covers GenAI from foundation to advanced levels. Learn more in the article. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #NewCourse #OnlineCourse #PD #Training #Education

Students taking resits need specific support There’s a notable absence of consideration for students taking resits in both pedagogical and policy conversations. Karen Lander sets out the need for change There’s a striking absence of consideratio...

This is a really important issue. Who is doing good work on it?
wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...

Screenshot of title page of an article published in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences titled "Research on Learning and Instruction: Implications for Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment."

Hey entrepreneurs who think #GenAI is the solution to all of education's problems! I think you're wrong, but if you want to be right, start by reading this article and designing your GenAI to do everything it recommends. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1177/2372...

So I'll have 100+ papers to desk review tmrw 😔 It's not all AI, though publisher says that's a likely contributor. But I don't fully understand what else is driving this crazy increase - or what to do before journals collapse under the strain

Good pull. I'm so tired of feigned indignation. These flimsy attempts to generate outrage to score political points.

AI search is 5.6% of search traffic rn and has grown 126% yoy. 98% of chatGPT users still use google. They just route by query type now: LLMs handle more research/complex q's, search handles more transactional/navigational searches. Seems more like a behavioral split and not direct replacement.

Trump to Rudd today, "you said bad?".
No need for satire anymore. Reality can't get any more ridiculous.

AI Is Trained to Avoid These 3 Words That Are Essential to Learning (Opinion) Chatbots aren’t designed to model the type of thinking we expect from our students.

"Education should teach students to grapple with complexity. AI is designed to avoid it. This mismatch is yet another reason to slow roll the rush to put AI in students’ hands." www.edweek.org/technology/o...

Factors Associated With Information Credibility Perceptions: A Meta-Analysis - Mengxue Ou, Shirley S. Ho, 2024 Research on factors influencing information credibility judgment is increasing, whereas their findings are mixed. This study conducted a meta-analysis of 85 emp...

In this meta-analysis, topic knowledge was not related to people's subjective perceptions of the truthfulness of content (i.e., credibility perceptions). Source credibility, argument quality, and ease of understanding (fluency) had the strongest relations. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Am I an Education Researcher? - The Australian Educational Researcher How individual researchers and communities of scholars situate themselves with respect to each other has a range of consequences, relating to issues from identity and norms of practices, to how one is benchmarked or positioned to apply for jobs or funding. Education, perhaps more than other disciplines, has a longstanding attention to tensions in this situating. This paper provides a reflection from an individual researcher, relating their experience to the literature, and collated and original analysis of data relating to education research in Australia, to provide an instrumental case study. It does this through framing of disciplines in relation to areas of knowledge, organisational units, and communities of researchers. The paper provides an overview of the discipline, including some key organisational features and updating of data commonly used in benchmarking exercises (while recognising the significant limitations of such data). The paper is intended to support researchers in their own reflection, and perhaps provoke (senior) researchers in considering challenges we face.

New open access paper by Simon Knight in AER. Lots to reflect upon.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Clear articulation of the current situation. Being critical of educational technology doesn't mean you are anti-technology.

Hype is not noise: Why we need Hype Studies In this article, Professor Neil Pollock, Chair in Innovation and Social Informatics at the University of Edinburgh Business School, and Professor Robin Williams, Director of the Institute for the Stud...

"Hype is no longer fleeting noise. It has become institutionalised, calculable, and consequential."

Neat little essay on studying hype practices, devices, and techniques www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/h...

What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.

New education technologies are only as powerful as the communities that guide their use. Opening a new browser tab is easy; creating the conditions for good learning is hard.
#AI #EdTech #Education

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Review of Education | BERA Educational Research Journal | Wiley Online Library Teachers often work across disciplinary boundaries—sometimes without noticing it, sometimes in a conscious, deliberate way. Learning to work with different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing, and....

New open access review paper on interdisciplinary expertise in teaching.

doi.org/10.1002/rev3...

New ‘This Is Australia, Dickhead’ Option Added To Tip Screen — The Shovel “When I go into pick up my takeaway pizza, it’s nice to know I have the choice to add a little extra … context about what country we’re in"

“I don’t mind giving a tip at all,” one Sydney resident said. “My tip? Don’t push bullshit American practices on Australians."

theshovel.com.au/2025/10/01/t...

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers Some companies are working to remedy the issue.

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers buff.ly/OlGwaFP

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Approaches to educational curation: how lecturers in higher education incorporate educational resources in course designs by R.H. Leighton, D.M.E. Griffioen and J. Elen. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

Approaches to educational curation: how lecturers in higher education incorporate educational resources in course designs

By R.H. Leighton et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEd #EducationalResources

Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social

"The better way forward, I’d wager, is both simple and drastic: to consider A.I. as the constructed piece of code it fundamentally is, not a mystical black box with unlimited potential... (1/4) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

A set of effective mentoring standards. A theoretically and empirically-driven framework While considerable research has explored effective mentoring, limited empirical evidence supports its theoretical underpinnings. Building on our work …

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ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

In other news, sky is blue, sea is wet, and anyone who has worked with machine learning has known this all along

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

This shows that it's not economically viable to reduce, and impossible to eliminate AI hallucinations.

The responsibilty for what AI spits out is up to the user.

Applying a critical lens to information and developing an understanding of how knowledge is created becomes more important than ever.