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I’ve been writing about genAI and education for a few years now, and my thoughts have evolved somewhat.

Source: Beyond the binary definition of “Stupid” and “Smart” education: towards “Smupid” education?

I don’t think I’ve ever read any published article by Dave Cormier that I didn’t like, and I’ve read quite a few.

I am fifth of 26 authors, led by the remarkable Aras Bozkurt, of a new paper, “Redefining Educational Technology: A Critical Collaborative Inquiry,” published in Open Praxis this month.

Ben Werdmuller is a serial innovator, edtech veteran, and deeply insightful commentator on the tech industry whose skills defy easy categorization.

Statues in Nek Chand’s Rock Garden (photo by the author) I’ve just finished giving a brief keynote for IFERP’s 3rd EdInnovate conference in Tokyo (sadly, because I love Tokyo in the Spring, I was online).

Source: Random Audits as a Scalable Deterrent to Cheating: Using Game Theory to Design Fair and Effective Academic Integrity Systems for the AI Era by David Wiley Though not particularly common, the general principle of only assessing a sample of work with

What does it mean for higher education to work?

Here are the slides from the first of my two keynotes last week, Tool-using tools – Perceptions and misperceptions of generative AI.

I gave my second keynote of the week last week (in person!)

This is my contribution to the inaugural issue of AACE’s new journal of AI-Enhanced Learning, Cognitive Santa Claus Machines and the Tacit Curriculum.

The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Learning (AIEL), a diamond open-access journal published under the auspices of AACE and distributed worldwide through LearnTechLib has just launched its inaugural issue, which includes a paper from me (Cogni…

For a few minutes the other day I thought that I had invented a new kind of fallacy or, at least, a great term to describe it.

I’ve just submitted a journal paper (shameless plug: to AACE’s AIEL, of which I am an associate editor) in which I describe generative AIs as cognitive Santa Claus machines.

At short notice I was invited to be guest of honour and keynote at Bennett University’s International Conference on Blockchain for Inclusive and Representative Democracy yesterday.

Many people brush generative AI aside as being just a tool.

Here’s a characteristically well-expressed and succinct summary of the complex nature of technologies, our relationships with them, and what that means for education by the ever-wonderful Tim Fawns.

The latest paper I can proudly add to my list of publications, Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future Directions in Educational Generative AI Research has been published in the (unfortunately) closed journal Te…

Here are the slides from my keynote at Thompson Rivers University’s Teaching Practices Colloquium this morning.

Here are the slides from a talk I just gave to a group of grad students at AU in our ongoing seminar series, on the nature of collectives and ways we can use and abuse them.

Dron, J. (2024).

Thanks to Stefanie Panke for some great questions and excellent editing in this interview with me for the AACE Review.