Dwayne Ripley

Great insights.
The concept of Metis (aka sailor smarts) is important when we think about differentiation with what AI and humas can each do well.
This makes me think of Horizon scanning as well and the shift from 'prediction' to 'awareness of signals'.

Expert Signals: Why Human Expertise Matters More Than Ever AI excels at codifiable knowledge but can't transmit the situated, embodied expertise that makes human experts irreplaceable. Introducing expert signals.

New post: Expert Signals. I've been thinking about what human experts actually do that AI can't, drawing on James C. Scott's distinction between techne and metis. Read more... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

In the wise words of Metallica, "sad but true".

That Won't Work, Bro Announcing my new ed tech consultancy.

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised people take this Alpha School thing at all seriously. Does no one remember Rocketship or AltSchool or the other attempts at this digitally automated schooling? Time to re-up this from the AltSchool days. www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-v...

It seems like tech companies and governments are working hard to keep students from difficult experiences, you know, the experiences that are essential to actual learning.

Serious question - could the service provided to the killer be considered as aiding a mass murder?

How Teens Use and View AI Just over half of U.S. teens say they've used chatbots for help with schoolwork, and 12% say they’ve gotten emotional support from these tools. Teens tend to view AI's future impact on their lives…

A majority of teens AND PARENTS think it is okay for students to use #GenAI for homework/learning. Companies must design GenAI to help people actually learn, rather than offload learning. And we must educate people about when it is and is not a good idea to use GenAI for learning. #EduSky

I like this term, 'the instrumentalisation of everything'.

Hi Leon.

FYI, the link leads to a '404'.

I'm going to forward this to my teenage daughter. It's an insightful, honest take on the current state of finance.

Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.

"Politicians should condemn financialization as not only harmful but also absurd. That will lose them support from several very rich donors but gain them support from many more constituents. Same goes for university leaders."
[Gift link]

Q: Gemini, what does 'Rats leaving a sinking ship' mean?

A: In maritime lore, it refers to rats fleeing the lowest, water-logged decks of a doomed vessel.
In business, it describes top talent or employees leaving a company that is experiencing, or about to experience, significant trouble.

Learners and educators are AI’s new “super users” Google’s 2025 Our Life with AI survey found people are using AI tools to learn new things.

Google's annual AI survey with Ipsos indicates "learning" is the #1 use of AI, overtaking "entertainment."

But "learning" can mean *anything*. You can learn conspiracies, recipes, videogame cheats, whatever.

This is not "education" as it deliberately blurs it here
blog.google/products-and...

Screenshot of interview with Geoffrey Hinton, reading: "A normal teacher is in broadcast mode in a classroom, where they're telling the children the answers to questions the children didn't just wonder about," Hinton said. "Whereas with an AI tutor, the AI tutor can always be telling you the answers to questions you did just wonder about, and you learn much faster that way." Hinton said the Alpha School was expensive because AI is expensive, but said he expects it to become much cheaper as the technology becomes more affordable."

He may be a "Godfather of AI" but Geoffrey Hinton has no idea about education or teaching and should really quit doing uninformed, straw man-bashing, free marketing for right-wing billionaire- and investor-backed private, anti-DEI, automated schooling outfits www.businessinsider.com/godfather-ai...

YouTube video by ManicStPreachersVEVO Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Official Video)

A song for the times.

youtu.be/cX8szNPgrEs?...

*for coding use in this example

Cognitive offloading is the norm for AI users at work, leading to reduced development of expertise,
*EXCEPT* when it is used to build comprehension (by asking follow-up questions, requesting explanations, or posing conceptual questions).

It's a tool. It's how you use it that matters.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university (I'll try this again)

-Innovations in learning tech & practice
-learning tech research frontiers
-Systems, change & learning
-dssign for learning
-existential lit

Agree. It just that it makes me think of the guns don't kill people, people kill people argument.

Verifying that a reference is correct is not the same as referencing papers that you've read and understand and use as an existing body of evidence which you build from.

Veryifying references is retrofitting or cherrypicking research that supports your argument. That's poor research.

"When asked about the possibility of the AI model confabulating fake citations, Weil acknowledged that “none of this absolves the scientist of the responsibility to verify that their references are correct.”

They're placing the blame on the user (and subsequently on editors), not on the technology

TikTok users “absolutely justified” in fearing MAGA makeover, experts say TikTok’s tech issues abound as censorship fears drive users to delete app.

“When your ‘bug’ consistently affects anti-Trump content, Epstein references, and anti-ICE videos, you’re looking at either spectacular coincidence or systems that have been designed to flag and suppress specific political content.”

Campus, collections, and the student: a spatial ontology of the university library This article develops a framework for understanding the evolving spatial ontology of the contemporary university library. We conceptualise the library in three overlapping ways. First, as a materia...

A thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on university libraries

doi.org/10.1080/0307...

Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now. Did anyone ask you? Now someone is.

I switched to DuckDuckGo recently BECAUSE I can disable the AI slop. I don't want it, never will.

voteyesornoai.com/vote/no

"We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports."

Junk AI work again overwhelming volunteers.

There are adults in the room once again.

Aristotle's intelligence types are: scientific knowledge (epistêmê), technical skill (téchnê) and practical wisdom or the ability to judge the right course of action (phrónêsis).

Trump has little no none of these 3, but has cunning intelligence (mètis).

What a waste of researchers' time to have to counter false claims propelled forward by an ideological agenda.

When you use AI to cut corners in academic publishing, you disrespect editors' and reviewers' time and endanger their reputations.

You will be judged and it will be justified.

Your aim should not be to get published. It should be to produce something worthy of publication.