The "return on investment" with tenured faculty is having accomplished experts who are experienced teachers there to teach the students. It's sort of a basic point about colleges, you'd think the people on a board of trustees would get that.
It was a fantastic opportunity to be a panelist for @york.ac.uk Open Research Awards again this year! 🥳 So many amazing projects by students and staff from throughout the university! Check them out via the link below 👇
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Kevin M. Kruse
Only a week to our 49th #CALRG conference! Fully online, and free!
All welcome!
www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/
#CALRG2026 #EdTech
Google’s attempt to use the National Enquirer defense (“we’re inherently untrustworthy”) fails!
“Google argued that users could check the linked sources themselves to verify whether the AI summary was correct. Users generally knew ‘that information generated with AI shouldn’t be blindly trusted.’”
We need to think deeper: why is this unacceptable for a 17 year old but acceptable for an 18 year old - or a 57 year old?
Age controls are not the real problem.
FWIW, I’ve got an archive of self-created, self-hosted, open-source, non-extractive, non-surveillant class websites going back 22 years! wordsinspace.net/classes/
Katie Vernon
teddyintn
There isn’t much left to say except that your children will be less well-rounded than you. Less well-read than you. Less intelligent than you. Less able to problem solve than you. Leas worldly than you. Less empathetic. Less equipped. And more helpless.
For the first time in living history.
Institute of Educational Technology
Red Wall discourse has so clouded Labour’s mind that they’re sleepwalking into doing to university towns what Thatcher did to mining towns
A student who sets out to write a research paper will now encounter chatbots who will offer to do their work in their word document, in their learning management system, in their email, in their web browser, and in certain library database interfaces.