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(Jan 31, 2025) Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries
https://gizmodo.com/add-fcking-to-your-google-searches-to-neutralize-ai-summaries-2000557710
- Still working as of Aug 9, 2025 🙂
Communicating Generative AI Use with your Students https://teaching-learning.ucalgary.ca/resources-educators/course-outlines/communicating-generative-ai-use-your-students
- Course Outcome
- This anchors the AI guideline within the course’s formal learning goals, helping students understand the rationale for restrictions or permissions.
- Purpose for Learning
- This explains the pedagogical intent behind the assignment design, showing how it supports specific forms of thinking, practice, or development.
- Permitted / Not Permitted Table
- This provides a practical and accessible reference for students, clarifying exactly how AI tools may or may not be used at various stages of the assignment
- Alignment with Course Outcome
- This connects the AI policy back to the course goals, ensuring that decisions about tool use are grounded in educational purpose and learning integrity.
(July 29, 2025) AI can be responsibly integrated into classrooms by answering the ‘why’ and ‘when’
https://theconversation.com/ai-can-be-responsibly-integrated-into-classrooms-by-answering-the-why-and-when-261496
Two frameworks provide the essential lens we need to move beyond the hype and engage with AI responsibly:
- “virtue epistemology,” which argues that knowledge is not merely a collection of correct facts or a well-assembled product, but the outcome of practising intellectual virtues
Linda Zagzebski, suggests the real goal of an assignment is not just writing the essay itself — but the cultivation of curiosity, intellectual perseverance, humility and critical thinking that the process is meant to instil.
[W]when the “how” of AI is used to bypass the very struggle that builds virtue…This stands in direct contrast to philosopher and educator John Dewey’s view of learning as an active, experiential process.
- A care-based approach that prioritizes relationships
Deciding the “when” requires educators to know their learner, understand the learning goal and act with compassion and wisdom. It is a relational act, not a technical one.
(Aug 5, 2025) ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/chat-gpt-swedish-pm-ulf-kristersson-under-fire-for-using-ai-in-role
- The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has come under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion in his role running the country.
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(July 23, 2025) Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
https://www.chronicle.com/article/instructors-will-now-see-ai-throughout-a-widely-used-course-software
- Artificial-intelligence tools — including generative AI — will now be integrated into Canvas, a learning-management platform used by a large share of the nation’s colleges, its parent company announced on Wednesday.
- While many instructors in academe are skeptical of the technology, some universities have embraced it; starting in the fall, for instance, Ohio State University will require all its graduates to be “AI fluent.”
(April 2, 2025) Anthropic launches an AI chatbot plan for colleges and universities
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/anthropic-launches-an-ai-chatbot-tier-for-colleges-and-universities/
- Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new Claude for Education tier, an answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu plan.
- To help universities integrate Claude into their systems, Anthropic says it’s partnering with the company Instructure, which offers the popular education software platform Canvas.
(June 23, 2025) ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/
- [Three groups] write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, and nothing at all
Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.
- Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.
(Feb 23, 2024) Airline held liable for its chatbot giving passenger bad advice – what this means for travellers
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know
- When Air Canada’s chatbot gave incorrect information to a traveller, the airline argued its chatbot is “responsible for its own actions”.
- The British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal rejected that argument, ruling that Air Canada had to pay Moffatt $812.02 (£642.64) in damages and tribunal fees.
“It should be obvious to Air Canada that it is responsible for all the information on its website,” read tribunal member Christopher Rivers’ written response. “It makes no difference whether the information comes from a static page or a chatbot.”
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(Feb 22, 2024) Ben Williamson: 21 arguments against AI in education
https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/ai-in-education-is-a-public-problem/