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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · 12h

AI Literacy Across the Curriculum
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Mastering #AILiteracy or indeed any literacy is not something that can be done in a single lesson or module, but is better distributed throughout students’ education (like Writing Across the Curriculum) #AIEd #EdDev #EdTech

AI Literacy Across the Curriculum

As you have no doubt seen, AI is becoming ubiquitous in our lives and in the technologies we use every day. Generative AI is no longer an experimental tool, but a deployed technology in many of the…

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · 4d

Faculty Development and GenAI Playbook: Evidence-based Best Practices www.everylearnereverywhere.org/resources/fa...
#EdDev #AIEd

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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 6d

New post on Humanist! I was excited to read Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger's “Opposite of Cheating,” and the writing is a pleasure. Yes, plagiarism is rampant, but …

Reviving academic integrity: Part I - Dishonesty as a Design Challenge

When I first saw the announcement that Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A Rettinger were putting out a new book called The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI, I immediately ...

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · 6d

A few recent open ebooks:
* Inclusive Teaching Online open.oregonstate.education/teachingonli...
* Advancing Accessibility edtechbooks.org/accessibility
* #AILiteracy for College Success pressbooks.montgomerycollege.edu/ailit/
* Learning With AI leeds.pressbooks.pub/learningwith...
#EdDev #AIEd

Inclusive Teaching Online – Open Textbook

<em>Inclusive Teaching Online</em> addresses the complexities of teaching diverse and nontraditional adult students in asynchronous online environments. Centered in evidence-based approaches for creat...

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · 9d

"Increasingly, AI chatbots are unwilling to acknowledge that they do not know the answer to a question. Instead, they make stuff up. A September report from NewsGuard, which monitors online misinformation, found that “non-response rates fell from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025.”"

Popular Information @popular.info · 10d

An alarming amount of the news information AI chatbots provide to users is false.

The study found that 20% of the AI chatbots’ answers “contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.”

What happens when you trust AI for news

AI chatbots are surging in popularity.

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · 16d

GLAT: The generative AI literacy assessment test www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
& www.glat.ai/GLAT
Presentation by co-author youtu.be/2sNTxu33Xw4?...
More about #AILiteracy theconversation.com/ai-literacy-...
#AIEd #EdTech

GLAT: The generative AI literacy assessment test

The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology into education requires precise measurement of GenAI literacy to ensure…

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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 25d

An AI chatbot’s feedback style can alter your brain activity during learning

A new study shows the type of feedback a chatbot gives affects learning and brain activity. Reflective feedback boosts problem-solving, while encouraging feedback improves memory.

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · 25d

Cool demo by @todepond.com of a classroom agent in @tldraw.com
youtu.be/L-fKtZXDb-s?...
Jump to the 10 minute mark to see an example of AI giving guidance to a student working on a math problem on the tldraw digital canvas. Uses the agent starter kit tldraw.dev/starter-kits...
#AIEd #EdTech

tldraw's classroom agent

YouTube video by tldraw

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · 25d

Coincidentally ran across a couple of videos about this: youtu.be/FKDcQJKg9rU?... & youtu.be/1U32hZYxfcY?...
Would be interested trying Gemini CLI and maybe some option that would work from my phone, where I'm usually adding notes

You Asked How I Built My AI Knowledge Management Agents — Here’s the Full Walkthrough

YouTube video by Jason Cyr

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · Oct 4

How did the new MinerU 2.5 do github.com/opendatalab/...

GitHub - opendatalab/MinerU: Transforms complex documents like PDFs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.

Transforms complex documents like PDFs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows. - opendatalab/MinerU

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arXiv cs.CY Computers and Society @cscy-bot.bsky.social · Oct 3

Noah D. Finkelstein: A principled way to think about AI in education: guidance for action based on goals, models of human learning, and use of technologies https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01467 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01467 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.01467

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Doug Holton @dougholton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Oct 2

Notes and system instructions and deep research reports on creating a custom GPT or Gemini Gem to tutor calculus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p2aeeVmstAASRUsgH52NLDmhghrhhsab2pvmyevnuYI/edit?usp=sharing
Hawkulus: AI Calculus Tutor (Custom GPT) […]

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · Oct 2

It should be obvious a priori that it's absurd to judge colleges by the number of applicants they manage to avoid admitting. Quality ≠ selectivity! Now there's evidence demonstrating the absence of an empirical relationship between intellectual engagement and a school's selectivity: is.gd/itHRhu

So what does actual educational quality look like? For decades, researchers at Indiana University have been measuring something that matters far more than acceptance rates: how engaged students actually are in their learning. Through the National Survey of Student Engagement, they survey hundreds of thousands of freshmen and seniors about how they spend their time, interact with professors and what they think they are gaining from college.

While the survey results are not routinely made public, I asked Indiana researchers to compare data across groups of schools sorted into five tiers based on selectivity. Here's what they found: On 18 different engagement measures, the tiers of schools were separated by just a point or two among freshmen — a gap that narrowed even more by senior year.

For instance, in a measure of “higher-order learning” — engagement in activities that promote the critical, analytical thinking central to a college education and essential to jobs in an age of A.I — there was “no statistically significant difference” between the most selective schools (under 20 percent acceptance rate) and the next tier down (20 percent to 40 percent). Overall student satisfaction among seniors was separated by only four percentage points between the most selective and least selective schools (those with an 80 percent to 100 percent acceptance rate).

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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · Oct 1

🚨 New preprint 🚨

Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.

Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · Oct 1

Asset-based Approaches to Student Success
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Strategies for moving from deficit thinking (focusing on what students lack) to asset-based approaches (aka strengths-based approaches).
#EdDev #HigherEd #Teaching #EdReform

Asset-based Approaches to Student Success

In past newsletters and workshops, I’ve shared evidence-based teaching strategies that have been shown to improve student learning, success, engagement, and career readiness: Teaching Tips for the …

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · Sep 26

Teaching Tips: The First Major Exam or Assignment
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Some research-based practices you may find useful for before, during, and after your first major assessment to improve student success and help struggling students turn things around afterward.
#EdDev #Teaching

Teaching Tips: The First Major Exam or Assignment

I’ve earlier shared evidence-based teaching tips and resources for the critical first week of a course, including these resources: Establishing Expectations: A Growth Mindset Approach –…

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · Sep 18

The homework help button is gone, but starting today, there is an omnipresent Gemini button on the top right of Chrome, and it can do the same stuff. Additionally, it supports Gemini Live mode (voice mode). I tested it and it answered questions in a Canvas quiz for me: blog.google/products/chr...

Go behind the browser with Chrome’s new AI features

Google Chrome is getting upgraded with the latest AI to make it safer, smarter and more useful

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · Sep 17

Looks like the Homework help button doesn't appear anymore. That's what the last comment at the above canvaslms discussion says, too. Unfortunately though, this kind of stuff is only pushing folks to use Honorlock and similar tools even more.

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yes, the Homework help button appears on any Canvas or D2L site, as well as others. community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Qu...

How can we detect or disable Google's new "Homework help" Chrome browser feature during Canvas quizzes?

Google has rolled out a new "Homework Help" button in the URL bar of Chrome, and I just tested it out. During a Canvas quiz, if I click that button in the URL bar and select a quiz question in Canvas,...

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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · Sep 10

6 ways to use NotebookLM to master any subject https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-student-features/ (new features) #AI #NotebookLM

6 ways to use NotebookLM to master any subject

This semester, students can use NotebookLM to instantly generate flashcards, quizzes, professional reports and more.

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Sep 10

Opinion: Without specific classes, students may leave college still unable to separate science from nonsense, says Natalia Pasternak

#AcademicSky #EduSky

Higher education does not teach critical thinking by default

Without specific classes, students may leave college still unable to separate science from nonsense, says Natalia Pasternak

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · Aug 28

If any LLM devs want to skip ahead of the class, check out How People Learn nap.nationalacademies.org/read/9853/ch... or Teach Students How to Learn youtu.be/yGBfd7LeGMM?...
Another Metacognitive AI strategy: confidence self-assessments arxiv.org/abs/2508.152... #LearningSciences

Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · Aug 28

Teach an LLM to master a body of knowledge? by @jessylin.bsky.social

They propose Active Reading 📙: where for each training doc, they have the model itself propose study strategies, "actively reading" to synthesize its own augmented training corpus.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · Aug 12

Teaching students how to learn changes more than effort—it changes the pattern of their learning. A brief SRL intervention made study habits more regular & organized all semester, boosting grades. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Screenshot of article published in the British Journal of Educational Technology titled: "Leveraging complexity frameworks to refine theories of engagement: Advancing self- regulated learning in the age of artificial intelligence."

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · Aug 6

I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it.

Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...

A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment

On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions

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Doug Holton @edtechdev.bsky.social · Aug 7

Advancements in astronomy education research: Two decades of progress with undergraduate and adult learners journals.aps.org/prper/abstra...
#Astronomy #PhysicsEd #STEMeducation #DBER #EdDev #ActiveLearning #Teaching

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