Jon Fila

Embracing Through Resistance Are You Thinking Too Small? I’m just going to go ahead and answer that right away. The answer is yes. I probably am as well. I was just at a conference where vendors were selling courses, AI applications to help teacher…

12 years ago: 800+ hours to write/build a course.
2 years ago: 350+ hours with AI.
A few weeks ago: a few hours (counting 25+ years of experience)

Are You Thinking Too Small? news.inclusiveaistrategies.com/are-you-thin...

I'll be at #DLAC26. Let's chat. Otherwise, reach out!

sumerian culture invented writing and as soon as they did kids were using it to complain

there’s clay tablets that are like “what the hell mom this other kid has new clothes and his dad isn’t even as rich as us”

The Am Dash

Or use the new AM Dash! Wonderful. www.theamdash.com

The Em Dash Podcast Episode · 99% Invisible · 02/03/2026 · 39m

Love that they did a whole episode on the em dash.

Reclaim the –!

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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

The Feedback Problem: What AI Gets Wrong That Took Me Years to Learn AI feedback can be instant, judgment-free, and technically accurate. It can also overwhelm students and repeat the mistakes that took human teachers years to unlearn.

New blog post: AI and the Feedback Problem

If we’re suggesting to learners they should use AI for feedback, we should also be telling them how to give instructions to the machine.

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#EdChat #AiEducation #EduSky

Fake It Until AI Makes It: Getting AI to Work Harder for You Are you important enough for good AI responses? (Lie and find out)

New blog post: Fake It Until AI Makes It: Getting AI to Work Harder for You

This one is about how I often manipulate LLM for better responses.

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#AIEdu #EdChat #EduSky

Does anyone know any middle school or high school English/Language Arts teachers that are into D&D that might be interested in course materials to teach an elective credit? I'm looking for someone who might want to pilot one and I'd love to speak with them.

#EdChat #EduSky

But what are the stakes?

Dolorem is largely a MN collaboration that draws its strength from community. In a show of support for my MN family and roots, I am offering a couple MN Rebel Alliance items in my store.

Proceeds will be given to MN Humanities Center
#Resist

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When the Teacher Becomes the Parent: My Kids Cannot Use AI at School I have spent the last three years helping educators understand AI—its biases, its possibilities, its risks. I have written about how we need to approach these tools with intent, and how uncritical …

New blog post! This one is about my frustration with AI bans in school.

When the Teacher Becomes the Parent: My Kids Cannot Use AI at School

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#AIEdu #EduSky #EdChat

Which cover caught your eye?
Tell us in the comments and we'll link you the book to read on comix.one!
#comics #indiecomics

EDU Café | After the Hype Cycle: Looking Back, Looking Ahead with Jon Fila and Dr. Jason Nieffer The latest episode of the podcast just dropped with Jon Fila and Jason Neiffer digging into one of the biggest questions in education right now: What happens after the AI hype settles?In this conve...

Check out my chat with Jason Neiffer for the EduCafe Podcast!

After the Hype Cycle: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

We talk old predictions and what's next for #AIEdu I hope you enjoy it! I'd love to know your thoughts

Listen where you like to hear those kinds of things ;)

educafe.transistor.fm/44

Later this week, the EduCafe podcast with Director of Montana Digital Academy, Jason Neiffer, Ed.D.

Fun conversation about previous predictions and what's ahead for #AIEdu.

After the Hype Cycle: Looking Back, Looking Ahead. What’s Actually Changed Since 2022 with AI in Education
#EduSky #EdChat

Non-dairy creamer pack. Contains: Milk

Seems like the kind of label AI might generate but it’s a real thing.

I meet a lot of very smart AI critics who never seriously try to make AI work for them by spending a couple of hours with a frontier model working on hard tasks

People can be (and should be & are) critical after realizing what AI can do, but experience leads to better-informed and sharper critiques

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

You may not remember this @gailsimone.bsky.social but when I first stated this project I mentioned it on Twitter and your encouragement meant everything at the time and helped motivate me to see it through.

#CyberMonday Deal!
Dolorem Issue 1 is free on our website :)

It's been an amazing collaboration. The biggest challenges are time and finding ways to get the word out. I'm in a few comic shops in Chicago and I am always trying to figure out how to build my network and reach.

I want to build this into something that people can find and connect with.

I'm creator and writer inspired by my own chronic nerve pain. I wanted a creative team that also had related challenges. I didn't have any experience and we were able to bring on industry veteran Dan Kemp to do the colors.

Neit contemplates his future with elemental forces looking on.

Triptych featuring Nocere (harm), Neit in a mask, Nepenthe (comfort).

Thank you Gail!

Working on issue 3 of Dolorem! First issue free!
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Hero struggles with chronic pain, healthcare, elemental forces manipulating him, relationships & purpose. What he dishes out he takes on himself.
Artist @dwittart.bsky.social
Letters Bill Hauser
Colors Kemp Studios

Children certified in Gemini, a product that amplifies bias, misinformation, and environmental degradation?

K-12 schools should ignore this and encourage kids to think past the genAI hype.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

from TechCrunch: OpenAI says it's fixed ChatGPT em dash problem. OpenAI says users can now personalize ChatGPT to stop using the em dash in its output.

our long national nightmare is over

A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions

It took me about three months to get here but...

Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.

10,151 species.

#dataviz #birds #data

First day of school!

I’m taking a metal working and forging class at Chicago Industrial Arts & Design Center.

If anyone is looking for a supercut of when pizzas appear in film and TV then Professor Pizza in Chicago has got you covered. Eat pizza while watching pizza!

At the health club today I overheard a conversation about how asteroid 2025 PY1.

One is convinced that it contains a mothership that is coming to save us and the government shutdown is planned to keep NASA from releasing photos of it.

I need to spend more time online.
#YallNeedScience

AI would advance even if OpenAI disappeared. AI really actually does powerful things that will transform a lot of how we live and work even if AI did not advance further. The way to influence the future is not to pretend that AI is going to go away, but push for it to be used well & mitigate harms.