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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 3h

Still worrisome, but misleading all the same: "one in four students" is a minority.

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Teaching the AI-Native Generation | Oxford fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/... [PDF]
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4h

Listening to mom in the neonatal intensive care unit: a randomized trial of increased maternal speech exposure on white matter connectivity in infants born preterm | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4h

"Premature babies who heard recordings of their mothers reading to them had more mature white matter in a key language area of the brain"

Mom’s voice boosts language-center development in preemies’ brains, study finds | Stanford Medicine med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4h

Analyzing spatial patterns of urban green infrastructure for urban cooling and social equity | Urban Forestry & Urban Greening www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4h

Inequality:

"Neighbourhoods with lower incomes, less access to education, and higher proportions of racialized residents tend to be hotter due to less vegetation"

Concordia study links urban heat in Montreal to unequal greenspace access | Concordia university www.concordia.ca/news/stories...

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 6h

Échappatoire ridicule. Comme si toutes les familles étaient libres de choisir ! Comment accorder sa confiance en une ministre déconnectée de la réalité ?

Marc-Antoine Charette @marcantoinecharette.com · 6h

«"Il revient aux familles de choisir ce qui leur convient le mieux", affirme la nouvelle ministre de l’Éducation. »

www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e... via @ledevoir.com

#eduqc #polqc #assnat #éducation

Sonia LeBel n’a pas l’intention de changer le système à trois vitesses

«Il revient aux familles de choisir ce qui leur convient le mieux», affirme la nouvelle ministre de l’Éducation.

www.ledevoir.com

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 23h

An impressive dossier and list.

Next Big Things in Tech 2025 | Fast Company www.fastcompany.com/next-big-thi...

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 1d

Apple’s new language model can write long texts incredibly fast | 9to5 Mac 9to5mac.com/2025/10/13/a...

FS-DFM: Fast and Accurate Long Text Generation with Few-Step Diffusion Language Models | arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2509.20624
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DavidPBLRoss @davidpblross.bsky.social · 1d

A report found that 19% of HS students surveyed have had or know someone who has a romantic relationship with an AI, and 42% reported using it or knowing someone who has for companionship cdt.org/insights/han... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #artificialintelligence

Hand in Hand: Schools’ Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students

Artificial intelligence (AI) has continued to alter the educational experiences of teachers, students, and parents during the 2024-25 school year. The frequency and variety of AI uses continues to gro...

cdt.org

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 1d

La technologie a supplanté la technique.

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 2d

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It | Futurism futurism.com/artificial-i...

ExplanAItions 2025: Key Insights | Wiley www.wiley.com/content/wile...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 2d

Je crains moins les usages scolaires de l'IA que la satellisation des écoles par l'industrie de l'IA.

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 2d

IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are significantly influenced by educational differences | Acta Psychologica www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 2d

"when their schooling is very different, their IQs can be as dissimilar as those of unrelated strangers"

Major IQ differences in identical twins linked to schooling, challenging decades of research | PsyPost www.psypost.org/major-iq-dif...

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 2d

"the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year"

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought | Futurism futurism.com/future-socie...

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 2d

Or the opposite.

Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 3d

How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?
@summerfieldlab.bsky.social et al.
'AI may provide an opportunity to update the social contract underlying rep. democracy, by expanding the role of citizen input... including the design of democratic institutions and processes'
arxiv.org/abs/2409.06729

How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?

Advanced AI systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available. In this paper, we discuss the impacts that generative artificial intelligence may have on demo...

arxiv.org

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 3d

Which is greatest threat to education: Big AI or the lack of human teachers? In the long run, it's a double whammo.

Dropouts at universities of education hit record high for 2nd year | The Korea Times www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 3d

Hell no!

One of the world's biggest AI companies wants a deal with Canada. Is sovereignty the trade-off? | CBC www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 3d

Masked agents, unmarked vehicles, and a police vehicle that flees the scene. This is how fast a country can descent into lawlessness.

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4d

Phishing detection in multitasking contexts: the impact of working memory load, goal activation, and message framing cue on detection performance | European Journal of Information Systems www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4d

This bit of information caught my attention: "3.4 billion malicious emails sent daily".

Multitasking makes you more likely to fall for phishing emails | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4d

Screen Time and Standardized Academic Achievement Tests in Elementary School | JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4d

This study targets home use. In my opinion, that's where the problem arises: "Length, type and content of screen time key to early interventions".

Screen time linked to lower academic achievement among Ontario elementary students | The Hospital for Sick Children www.sickkids.ca/en/news/arch...

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4d

Creativity, collaboration and conformity: Curriculum making and teacher motivation | The Curriculum Journal bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4d

More research on what is hurting education.

Increasing pressures for conformity de-skilling and demotivating teachers, study warns | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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