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jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social @jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social · Jul 21

When students all have their own avatars trained on their life story, we might be in real trouble. At the moment, there's enough friction when creating personalized AI podcasts that I'm not worried yet. Especially if teachers prioritize collaboration, iteration and process over the final product.

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jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social @jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social · Jul 21

I was thinking about that as I was writing this. As the tech changes, I believe there will still be surprising benefits to multimedia for assessment. Each layer of media (writing>audio> video) adds new opportunities for humanity that are easier to offer personally than they are to copy digitally.

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jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social @jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social · Jun 5

All teachers should read this

Mica Mulloy @micamulloy.bsky.social · Jun 4

I don't know that this saved me any time, but students got so much more individualized feedback than I ever could have generated on my own.

Sometimes AI isn't about working less—it's about impact per hour invested 💪 🕰️. #EduSky #AIEdu #AIinEducation

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What Happened When I Let AI Help Grade a Project

A real classroom experiment turned an AI-assisted process into pages of personalized guidance for every student

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 24

Sebastião Salgado, a celebrated Brazilian photographer whose striking images of humanity and nature in the Amazon rainforest and beyond won him some of the world’s top honors and made him a household name, has died at 81.

Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · May 21

The state of research on AI and education from controlled studies: Growing evidence that, when used as a tutor with instructor guidance, AI seems to have quite significant positive effects. When used alone to get help with homework, it can act as shortcut that hurts learning.

Still early days.

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Mindful AI for Education @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social · May 19

Kristen DiCerbo, @khanacademy.org Chief Learning Officer, visited our school in April and talked about their methodology for developing tools like Khanmigo and the importance of the teacher-student relationship. #EduSky #AIEdu

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Gratitude and Optimism: A Reflection on Khan Academy’s Approach to AI for Educators

Khan Academy featured a guest post from our Mindful AI for Education team

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Apr 26

I don’t mean to be a broken record but AI development could stop at the o3/Gemini 2.5 level and we would have a decade of major changes across entire professions & industries (medicine, law, education, coding…) as we figure out how to actually use it & adapt our systems.

AI disruption is baked in.

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Mindful AI for Education @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social · Apr 20

We don’t need AI to think for us—we need it to think with us.
Co-agency in classrooms starts with intentional design.

🤔 How are you using AI as a thought partner or teaching assistant? We're looking for some great examples to share 👀.

#EduSky #AiEdu

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jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social @jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social · Apr 20

I’m really grateful for their perspective on all this. Just picked up AI Snake Oil. I think regardless of whether they’re right or wrong, they’re taking a really important stance for the moment we’re in.

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jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social @jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social · Apr 17

Gratitude and optimism: my primary takeaways after Khan Academy’s CLO @kristendicerbo.bsky.social came to speak about AI at our school.

Here’s my reflection about her presentation from KA’s Blog.

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#aiedu #edusky

Guest Blog Post: Jake Kelly, Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, AZ

Jake Kelly has taught visual and media arts at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona since 2016. He teaches Journalism, Digital Photography, AP Studio ... Read more

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jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social @jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social · Apr 17

This is comprehensive! Totally agree.

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Jennifer Casa-Todd @jcasatodd.bsky.social · Apr 17

If you are an advocate of EdTech, I would love your opinion on this post I wrote: The argument for and against technology in schools: jcasatodd.com/the-most-com... #TLSky #EduSky

The most compelling argument for and against Educational Technology in Schools

I found myself on a parent thread on my Raising Digital Leaders account, where a few parents shared that they are calling for the abolition of Educational technology, citing a video called, The mos…

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jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social @jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social · Apr 16

Imagine being any kind of migrant right now. We've got folks who are really struggling to find pathways to any country that will validate their humanity. It's important to support agencies like Kino Border Initiative.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=klgP...

Border Spotlight | April 14

YouTube video by Kino Border Initiative/Iniciativa Kino para la Frontera

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Mindful AI for Education @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social · Apr 14

When it comes to AI integration, a Both/And approach feels like a more productive way to intentionally operate in the healthy and necessary tensions educators all face. #EDUSky #AiEdu

Nathan Lang-Raad, Ed.D @drlangraad.bsky.social · Mar 25

Why are we stuck in either/or thinking about AI in education? Either personalized learning OR human connection? Either innovation OR tradition?
The sweet spot isn't choosing sides—it's finding where these "opposites" enhance each other. #edusky
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Beyond Either/Or: Finding the Sweet Spot in AI and Education

Have you ever noticed how discussions about technology in education quickly turn into either/or propositions?

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Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral.com · Mar 28

Stages Of A Self-Directed Learning Model
#EduSky
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Stages Of A Self-Directed Learning Model

The goal of the model isn't content knowledge (though it should produce that), but rather something closer to wisdom--learning how to learn.

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Mica Mulloy @micamulloy.bsky.social · Mar 24

Are you using AI to enhance student feedback? This week @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social keeps digging into practical ways to partner with AI without sacrificing your voice and direction. #EduSky #AiEdu #EdTech

Mindful AI for Education @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social · Mar 24

How can teachers partner with AI to give students better feedback?

Our new post outlines 3 mindful ways to collaborate with AI—enhancing how we guide, support, and connect with students. #EduSky #AiEDU #EdTech

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Three Approaches to Collaborating with AI to Provide Students with Feedback

Using AI for feedback can take different forms

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jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social @jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social · Mar 24

I’m sick of getting added to these random group chats in Signal

jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social @jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social · Mar 21

Great frameworks for using AI for feedback from @danikachorskyphd.bsky.social

Three Approaches to Collaborating with AI to Provide Students with Feedback

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Three Approaches to Collaborating with AI to Provide Students with Feedback

Using AI for feedback can take different forms

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Mar 21

Evidence that a well prompted LLM can help learning from a (small, single-subject) randomized controlled trial at Harvard: “here we show that students learn more than twice as much in less time with an AI tutor compared to an active learning classroom, while also being more engaged and motivated.”

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Sugarboy @sugarboy.bsky.social · Mar 13

Gaming has strayed too far from what it once was. We need to go back to our roots. Bring back big head modes and cheat codes that unlock silly costumes

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Mindful AI for Education @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social · Mar 14

A thread on the difficulties of learning to code. Studies show that roughly 1/3 of incoming Comp Sci majors do not progress to their 2nd year, often due to the difficulty of the subject and lack of preparation. 🧵

#EduSky #AiEdu #Coding

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jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social @jakejakekellykelly.bsky.social · Mar 13

A new post from me on my thoughts about vibe coding in education spaces.

#edusky #aiforedu

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Learning Through Liking: The Appeal of Vibe Coding

Why Vibe Coders Start with Fun and Curiosity, Then Figure Out the Rest Later

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Mar 12

[Sigh].

A) Jelani Cobb is a great journalist and teacher of journalism and he oversaw his students as they did superb and vital work covering the protests on their campus.

B) He is telling them (as he says later) the honest and brutal truth: their school can't protect them from the Fed Govt.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · Mar 12

Great. Columbia J-school students from abroad are being told to obey in advance by their dean. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...

Students who were not U.S. citizens should avoid publishing work on Gaza, Ukraine and protests related to their former classmate’s arrest, urged Stuart Karle, a First Amendment lawyer and adjunct professor. With about two months to go before graduation, their academic accomplishments — or even their freedom — could be at risk if they attracted the ire of the Trump administration.

“If you have a social media page, make sure it is not filled with commentary on the Middle East,” he told the gathering in Pulitzer Hall. When a Palestinian student objected, the journalism school’s dean, Jelani Cobb, was more direct about the school’s inability to defend international students from federal prosecution.

“Nobody can protect you,” Mr. Cobb said. “These are dangerous times.”

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Mar 13

If you have used LLM image generators, you know they are hard to control: LLM had to send a prompt to a separate image generation tool, it did not not make the image.

Gemini is the first public release of a full multimodal LLM that can directly make images. This allows the systems to do detail work

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Mar 11

sometimes I feel like people who freak out about keeping science fiction and fantasy separate and distinct are like that little kid who doesn't want the peas and carrots to touch on their plate.

It's all imaginative fiction, folks.

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