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Ana Cristina Pratas
October 2, 2011 2:24 PM
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Ana Cristina Pratas
January 9, 10:50 AM
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Deep Dives Into Assessment Methods for the AI Age, Part 3
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Ana Cristina Pratas
January 7, 8:54 AM
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Learning is like constructing a new building — you can’t build strong walls without sturdy scaffolding! Read our latest blog post to learn about educational scaffolding and how teachers use this proven strategy in the classroom. (Hint: show and tell makes a comeback.)
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Ana Cristina Pratas
January 1, 8:13 AM
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Curious to see what ChatGPT might do with a diagram or concept map I adapted a few years ago, I submitted the original adaptation to ChatGPT: ChatGPT turned it into: Aside from the credit box, it's perfect.
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 21, 2025 5:52 AM
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Why We Cannot Use Probabilistic Tools to Police Probabilistic Systems
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December 21, 2025 5:41 AM
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The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relationship between AI tool usage and critical thinking skills, focusing on cognitive offloading as a mediating factor. Utilising a mixed-method approach, we conducted surveys and in-depth interviews with 666 participants across diverse age groups and educational backgrounds. Quantitative data were analysed using ANOVA and correlation analysis, while qualitative insights were obtained through thematic analysis of interview transcripts. The findings revealed a significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities, mediated by increased cognitive offloading. Younger participants exhibited higher dependence on AI tools and lower critical thinking scores compared to older participants. Furthermore, higher educational attainment was associated with better critical thinking skills, regardless of AI usage. These results highlight the potential cognitive costs of AI tool reliance, emphasising the need for educational strategies that promote critical engagement with AI technologies. This study contributes to the growing discourse on AI’s cognitive implications, offering practical recommendations for mitigating its adverse effects on critical thinking. The findings underscore the importance of fostering critical thinking in an AI-driven world, making this research essential reading for educators, policymakers, and technologists.
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December 19, 2025 9:20 AM
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December 8, 2025 6:14 AM
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Commentary on Training and Educational Data Analytics: An Overview by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 8, 2025 6:11 AM
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Commentary on They have to be able to talk about us without us by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 3, 2025 11:19 AM
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Discover how educators can use AI tools like NotebookLM and Suno to hear student evaluations differently—transforming feedback into reflective, motivating, and actionable insights for course improvement.
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 1, 2025 9:06 AM
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Discover practical strategies to design a meaningful course ending that reinforces learning, fosters reflection, and builds student confidence and closure.
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November 28, 2025 11:15 AM
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Five Fundamental Challenges That Will Reshape Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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November 26, 2025 4:42 AM
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There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence (AI). When AI seems to make things up or distort reality — adding extra fingers to human hands, inventing nonexistent court cases, or generating surreal advertisements — we commonly describe them as AI hallucinations. But a metaphor of hallucination reinforces the misconception that AI is conscious; it implies that AI experiences reality and sometimes becomes delirious. We need a new way to talk about AI outputs when they don't match our expectations for realism or facticity. For this paper, we analyzed the implications of more than 80 alternative terms suggested by scholars, educators, and commentators. Ultimately, we chose a more fitting term: AI mirage. Just as a desert mirage is an artifact of physical conditions, an AI mirage is an artifact of how systems process training data and prompts. In both cases, a human can mistake a mirage for reality or see it for what it really is. We propose the general use of the term AI mirage in place of AI hallucination because it can help build AI literacies, prompting us to explore how AI generates outputs and how humans decide what those outputs mean.
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Ana Cristina Pratas
January 9, 11:33 AM
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I’ve spent the last few years dismantling my assumptions about grading. I removed points. I minimized instructor judgment. I experimented with self-assessment and declaration grades. What I learned is this: removing grades is not the same thing as designing for agency.
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January 8, 6:05 AM
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What has September to November 2025 taught us about the future of learning? Since September 2025, the AI landscape in education has transformed at a pace that would make your head spin - it certainly has mine. I've been tracking these developments across LinkedIn posts, classroom experiments, and late-night deep dives into model capabilities (because…
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January 1, 8:15 AM
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Since I spend so much time working on BoodleBox Bots, ChatGPT Custom GPTs and Projects, I find myself longing for a better way to organize it all. While BoodleBox has made great strides in making their bots, knowledge stacks, chats much easier, it can still get overwhelming (especially given the number of chats I create).…
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December 29, 2025 5:16 AM
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On the Crucial Distinction Between Refusing to Use AI and Refusing to Teach About It
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December 21, 2025 5:49 AM
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Dr Phillippa Hardman shares some fascinating ways learners are using GenAi to learn. As I read her excellent piece, I wondered, “What might prompts look like for the various ways learners use GenAi AI? What prompts could illustrate these uses?” So I asked ChatGPT and then layered in Hattie and instructional coaching into the response.…
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December 20, 2025 11:26 AM
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I guess I will start off with the blogger cliche: it has been a while. I know. It’s not that I don’t have anything so say – it’s just that it feels repetitive to keep talking about Ai. It never really improves – not in any true way. And the news just keeps getting worse and worse.
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December 10, 2025 8:05 AM
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Discover real classroom lessons from students using AI inappropriately—and learn practical strategies to create clear AI policies, support integrity, and guide ethical AI use.
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 8, 2025 6:12 AM
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Commentary on Reframing Togetherness: Advances in artificial intelligence and the intersection of open learning by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 8, 2025 6:07 AM
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We often discuss in education the importance of keeping the “Human-in-the-Loop” (HITL) when using generative AI. It’s the golden rule of AI literacy. Don’t let the robot do the thinking. Use it to amplify your cognition, not replace it. But what does that actually look like in practice?
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 2, 2025 1:13 PM
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Imagine that you’ve been dropped into an escape room with no clue how to get out. Instructions are delivered piecemeal, often in the form of mysterious riddles… Escape room activities have become increasingly common in secondary and post-secondary courses.
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December 1, 2025 7:38 AM
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Ana Cristina Pratas
November 26, 2025 4:44 AM
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For the past few months, I've been visiting schools and hearing from students about why and how they're using (or refusing) generative artificial intelligence. In this article, I'm talking about two of the more problematic perspectives that have emerged from those conversations: it's good enough, and it's better than me.
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Ana Cristina Pratas
November 26, 2025 4:40 AM
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In "Metaphors We Live By," Lakoff and Johnson emphasise that metaphors are fundamental to human thought and language, not just decorative language. In this post, I've examined my own use of metaphors to describe AI and analysed their implications, highlighting the power and limitations of these metaphors in shaping our understanding of AI and its impact.
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