A common critical complaint about AI in education is it's not supported by evidence. However, evidence *is* being produced, just not by the normal standards, through conventional methods, or by independent evaluators. New post on evidence experiments codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/e...
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Shea Smith
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One month ago today. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
McSweeney'sLast month, the Trump administration committed another 98 atrocities. In all, that makes 1,112 cruelties, corruptions, and crimes since January 2025. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
Why are academics using GenAI to write articles, grade assignments, compose emails and a lot of other tasks that they would/should otherwise be doing themselves? A brief summary of our anonymous survey of over 200 academics' 'grey uses' of GenAI ... researchwhisperer.org/2026/07/21/a...
The Education Department has long collected civil rights data about things like bullying, harassment and disability services in schools, but it hasn't made the latest information public.
“The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.”
Research measuring the effects of AI in education has a major quality control problem that should disqualify most of it from being considered in policy discussions or applied in teaching practice. Quick new post from me codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t...
Made a window for a print out of borders cast on a Linotype, then filled it with plants. #letterpress
ICYMI - The AI Resist List - nine different ways (and lots of practical examples) of how you can contribute to the fight against AI ... airesistlist.org
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
he promised to leave if he lost, where’s the clock on that
KTLA 5Spencer Pratt unloads on 'commie animals' in aggressive L.A. mayoral race concession video
A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...
Fabricating Edtech Futures keynote talk by @benpatrickwill.bsky.social starting now at #edtech26 - learn more about Ben’s work on codeactsineducation.wordpress.com and on any good journal.
Is Ed-Tech Falling Out of Favour? ... new blog post: with the backlash against digital technology in schools gaining momentum, how can public faith be restored in ed-tech? criticaledtech.com/2026/05/10/i...
"The list of platforms that now mediate the basic functions of education ... is almost comically long ... most schools are running 10–15 different EdTech products that all promise efficiency, but in reality create confusion, frustration, and complicate what was once much simpler." 🎯
EmilyTavThe Canvas hack that brought campuses globally to a standstill got me thinking about a piece that I wrote in @techpolicypress.bsky.social, about how “technology is the spinal cord of government.” I wrote a few thoughts on what this looks like in schools. www.thehomescreen.org/p/technology...
Why has Khan consistently failed to make good on his promises? Perhaps it's because he fundamentally misunderstands learning (and teaching). Punya Mishra explains in today's newsletter: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/why-sal...
MAGA: it’s insane that the UK is indicting people for social media posts Also MAGA: yay Comey got indicted for a social media posts! FAFO!!
Kyle GriffinBREAKING on MS NOW: James Comey has been indicted by the Trump Justice Department — again. This time, Comey has been indicted on charges alleging he made threats against Trump in that May 2025 social post of a picture of shells on the beach that spelled out "8647."
Recommended weekend listening: Silicon Valley's vision for schools is dreary and dystopian. It's also fueling a massive backlash against all things edtech soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Spotted in one of my favorite bathrooms (in a print shop). A little pep talk for my fellow inky friends.