Anna Mills

From Passive to Active: Teaching Students to Critically Engage with AI Feedback — AI for Education Many educators worry that AI feedback will make students passive consumers of suggestions rather than active thinkers and writers. But when students learn to critically engage with AI feedback—questio...

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From Passive to Active: Teaching Students to Critically Engage with AI Feedback

A free webinar through AI for Education

Tuesday, October 7 at 12 pm ET
www.aiforeducation.io/from-passive...

Thank you, I hope it's helpful!

Yellow background with orange border. OpenAI logo top center, "OpenAI's GPT OSS" bottom center. Left side in smaller writing says "From the makers of ChatGPT...A new model is released". On the right and left side are spikey orange announcement banners, reading "Now Open Source!" "Available on Hugging Face! <logo>" url given in bottom right corner is hf.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b

🤖 ICYMI: Yesterday, @hf.co and OpenAI partnered to bring open source GPT to the public. This is a Big Deal in "AI world". Allow me to explain why. 🧵
huggingface.co/openai/gpt-o...

Webinars - Online Network of Educators

Building Your Own Multi-Pronged Approach to Reducing AI Misuse in Writing Assignments

For the California Virtual Campus Online Network of Educators

Slides: link.annarmills.com/building
Recording: onlinenetworkofeducators.org/webinars/
Worksheet: link.annarmills.com/worksheet

I'd love feedback...

Beyond Citation: Describing AI Use in Your Work | MLA Style Center Learn about acknowledging substantive use of AI in your work

Beyond Citation: Describing AI Use in Your Work from the MLA Style Center @mlanews.bsky.social sends the message that "Indicating where and how AI has touched your research and writing is just as much a part of academic integrity as citing your research sources is."
style.mla.org/describing-a...

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education. The end of critical thinking in the classroom

Why we need guardrails/accountability measures/assessment reform.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

&quot;ChatGPT completes online homework in 3 minutes: A demo&quot; | David Wiley posted on the topic | LinkedIn People are talking about ChatGPT's Agent Mode and how it might be used to complete online homework, but I haven't seen anyone share a specific prompt or a video of it working. In the demo below, I use...

Is anyone posting on here about AI agents accessing learning management systems and completing work for students without students even knowing what the assignment was?

Big problem.

Here David Wiley shows ChatGPT Agent in Canvas www.linkedin.com/posts/openco...

#EduSky #AIineducation

Webinars - Online Network of Educators

Building Your Own Multi-Pronged Approach to Reducing AI Misuse in Writing Assignments

This Thursday, September 18, 2025; 1:00-2:00 PM Pacific Time

Free and open to all through the California Virtual Campus Online Education Initiative.

Register: onlinenetworkofeducators.org/webinars/

2025 All The Nominations As reported at the close of this year's nomination cycle, the countries represented in this year's nominations are: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Brazil, Burundi, Canada, Cape Ver...

So moved that someone took the time to nominate me for an Open Education Global (OEGlobal) Award for Excellence! How wonderful to be on the list with colleagues from so many countries who are part of this global movement for open education.

awards.oeglobal.org/2025-nominat...

Love it! Just got a LInkedIn message addressed to "Hi {{FirstName}},"

Thank you, that's even easier to ignore!

That's true... he did clearly love the humanities and wanted to be clear-eyed and honest with us about what's happening, which I appreciate.

In the interview, I got the sense that he just wasn't interested in trying to preserve anything; he wanted to be one of the ones thinking about all the cool new things that are possible.

The part about making the humanities more about how to live resonated for me too.

But it seems like just gives up on educational experiences that exclude AI, it seems. That doesn't make sense to me.

I fully agree about the loneliness of it. But there's also an element of boredom I haven't been able to articulate the reason for. I do think AI books could be generated to challenge us in way we want to be challenged. But that's not satisfying if there's no human intention or vision behind it.

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

Not on board. AI-generated books are not equivalent to human-written books.

Human intention matters to readers.

"[T]he making of books such as those on my shelves, each the labor of years or decades, is quickly becoming a matter of well-designed prompts..."

Thank you! Intriguing

What Uses More? Compare the environmental footprint of digital tasks Compare the energy and water footprint of AI and digital activities.

Playing with @jonippolito.net's app What Uses More to compare generating an AI image with streaming Netflix for an hour or storing 5 GB in the cloud.

How can we get away from unnecessary streaming and cloud storage, since they use a lot more than most AI except video generation?
what-uses-more.com

Can researchers stop AI making up citations? OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.

How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it:

"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thanks! I just know we are all wondering when we read anything these days...

Interesting! I didn't find any guidance about that and so assumed I shouldn't, but I did wonder if it would be okay to upload it to a platform that wouldn't use it for training. In the end, I decided I didn't need it anyway in this case; I preferred to use my own traditional processes.

@leoflores.bsky.social I appreciate you're looking at these questions!

When you peer review, do you indicate somehow whether you used genAI in the process?

I'm peer reviewing a book and put this AI Use Statement at the end of my comments: "I used only Grammarly spelling and grammar suggestions and no generative AI in the preparation of this peer review."

There are definitely reasons to keep searching. Chat-assisted research doesn't have to take over. However, chat assistance can help with information verification. Traditional search can't do the sorting that might help us see what kinds of sources line up to support or debunk a claim.

We can do better, Bluesky! Let's stay civil, even if you hate AI and someone is posting about something that can be done with AI.

To get a chatbot to do a better job of evaluating a claim, try @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's "sorting prompts" (with web browsing turned on):

"Read the room: what do a variety of experts think about the claim?

OR

What is the evidence for and against the claim I posted?"

Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it? Many "errors" in search-assisted LLMs are not errors at all, but the result of an investigation aborted too soon. Here's how to up your LLM-based verification game by going to round two.

This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it.

Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...

I'm really sorry. Not okay.

Thank you! I am getting Claude to help me search platforms for profiles of the researchers cited there.. I found a few on LInkedIn so far and followed them.

Thanks for sharing your newsletter, and for mentioning me and the @pairrfeedback.bsky.social project!

Inteligência Artificial em Ação #1 Notícias, reflexões e resultados de pesquisa sobre IA no campo educacional

His work on edtech myths has been published in English. They apply very well to the current discussion about AI, as he presented in a workshop here in Brazil. By the way, Anna: I mention you here
iaedpraxis101.substack.com/p/inteligenc...
and here
iaedpraxis101.substack.com/p/caixa-de-f...