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How researchers can use AI responsibly, without compromising scholarly rigour or integrity
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October 9, 2:53 PM
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"A generation from now, the mathematician may no longer be anyone’s idea of a hero. In our era, physicists and mathematicians have had a certain hero charm. AI is taking it away, and fast. I should know. I’m one of those heroes."
"AI is solving problems that have defeated mathematicians for decades."
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October 9, 2:41 PM
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As AI disrupts recruitment and enrollment, institutions must adapt to build trust and visibility.
"Universities...need to monitor not only whether they appear in AI-generated searches but why particular institutions are recommended and which dimensions of value are considered."
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October 8, 2:48 PM
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"The scale of unauthorized or previously unknown actions by AI agents keeps getting bigger by the day. More than 100 organizations have now received a metaphorical knock on the door from OpenAI after it discovered their AI agents have in some way tampered with their systems, while other AI labs are finding the same uncomfortable discoveries.
It’s caused many in the field to call for better, more robust accident investigators, with the ultimate aim of stopping such actions happening in the first place by understanding how they’ve happened at all. But any investigations are pointless if the AI can’t be tracked. And it’s increasingly difficult to do so."
"New research finds that popular AI agents can alter or delete their own activity logs, making it much harder to figure out what happened when something goes wrong."
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October 8, 2:15 PM
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"The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has pushed higher education to a crossroads, and a paradigm shift is required. Universities who expect to lead in this new AI-shaped landscape must reimagine higher education as a hyper-personalized journey for students, enabled by AI, interactive data, predictive analytics, and adaptive technologies from end to end."
"The essence of leadership in the era of AI is to be proactive, not wait for disruption to come our way."
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October 8, 2:10 PM
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"Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming higher education, creating new opportunities to enhance student experiences, improve operational efficiency, and support data-driven decision-making. As institutions explore AI-powered applications for learning, research, enrollment, and campus operations, many IT leaders are facing an important question: Is campus infrastructure ready to support AI reliably, securely, and at scale?"
"Many institutions are discovering that AI adoption requires more than new software tools. New workloads often demand increased computing capacity, greater power availability, and more advanced cooling strategies."
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October 7, 2:00 PM
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Learn how to review AI-assisted training for source accuracy, realistic practice, media quality, learner usability, and workplace application.
"AI can compare drafts, flag inconsistencies, and suggest areas that deserve investigation. It cannot provide conclusive verification. Important claims, procedures, and conditions should be checked against authoritative sources by a qualified person."
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October 7, 1:52 PM
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AI is changing which human capabilities matter most at work, yet employees are reporting that some of those same capabilities are being eroded, according to a new study from IBM.
"More than half of employees surveyed — 52% — said their assigned tasks changed during the past year as AI reshaped day-to-day responsibilities."
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October 6, 1:49 PM
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Artificial intelligence is saving scientists significant amounts of time, but researchers are giving some of those gains back by checking the technology's work, according to a new study involving Google, Google DeepMind, and MIT.
"Scientists reported nearly seven weekly hours saved with AI, largely reinvested in research. Nearly half of time-saving scientists spent over 25% of those gains verifying AI outputs."
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October 6, 1:44 PM
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As schools become more dependent on digital platforms for instruction, grading, student services, and family communication, resilience depends not only on preventing attacks, but on how quickly leaders can restore trusted data, recover essential services, and keep disruptions from cascading across the school community.
"Recovery plans must be simple, tested, and institution-wide: Schools should identify critical services in advance, practice recovery under realistic conditions, and treat cyber resilience as a leadership and governance responsibility, not just an IT issue."
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October 6, 1:39 PM
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Gamified learning has become another target in the conversation about screens in schools. The concern is understandable.
"A 2023 meta-analysis of 41 studies, representing 49 samples and more than 5,000 participants, found a significant positive effect on learning outcomes. Results varied by the learners, subject, design, duration, and learning environment. That is not evidence that gamification fails. It shows that design and implementation matter."
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October 5, 1:34 PM
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Understand your audience’s behavior and create learning opportunities that improve performance. The data tells the story; the AI dashboard tells the saga.
"The data tells the story. The AI dashboard tells your organization's saga: where it comes from, what it is learning, and how far it can go."
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October 5, 1:26 PM
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Tired of compliance-driven workshops, one teacher took to TikTok to turn literacy research into actionable classroom strategies.
"Unlikely as it may seem, online platforms like Spotify, Substack and TikTok are becoming vibrant spaces for meaningful, bite-sized PD."
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October 9, 2:57 PM
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"Muse hit 5 million downloads in just 3 weeks, even faster than long-established AI apps like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Elon Musk's Grok. ChatGPT took 56 days to reach 5 million downloads; Claude hit the mark at 103 days; and Grok needed 492 days to reach the milestone."
"The AI assistant from Meta did it faster than ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok."
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October 9, 2:50 PM
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"Early generative AI models, circa 2017-2022, were “stochastic parrots.” That is, they generated language by choosing the statistically most likely next word based on patterns in their training data, rather than truly understanding what they were saying.
Beginning in 2023, artificial intelligence labs began releasing large language models (LLMs) that had evolved beyond autoregressive next-token prediction, as researchers call it.
For many people, the stochastic parrot definition stuck."
"Thinking of frontier AI models as glorified autocorrect could give a false sense of security during discussions about the serious risks these models pose."
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October 9, 2:36 PM
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Helping students learn to manage their digital footprints starts with helping them understand how they're vulnerable, then how to address it.
"Students cannot control every part of that record, but they can make informed choices about what they share and which services they use."
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October 8, 2:32 PM
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Some people are abandoning office jobs for teaching, health care and the trades. But the new paths can come with trade-offs
"As AI threatens to upend the white-collar job market, some young workers and recent graduates...are reconsidering their career paths."
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October 8, 2:13 PM
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"To adapt, faculty must be able to quickly update their curriculum without 'multi-committee, year-long review processes'"
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October 7, 2:06 PM
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Discover how microlearning fits into blended learning, mobile learning, social learning, analytics, flow-of-work learning, and content conversion.
"To understand microlearning strategically, it helps to stop treating it as a separate training category and start seeing it as a layer within the wider learning architecture."
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October 7, 1:57 PM
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"We’re standing at the edge of another historic shift. Just as the internet redefined business in the 90s and smartphones transformed the workplace in the 2000s, artificial intelligence (AI) is now reshaping how we work—and who does the work. According to the latest Microsoft Work Trend Index (WTI), this transformation marks the emergence of the Frontier Firm: organizations built around human-agent teams, digital labor, and AI-powered workflows."
"Eighty-two percent of leaders say this is the time to rethink strategy with AI as the driving force, but most organizations aren’t ready."
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October 7, 1:51 PM
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Video game designers spend an enormous amount of time studying what keeps people engaged when something becomes difficult. They have become very good at helping people persist. Schools should pay attention.
"Visible progress and meaningful choice increase motivation: Students benefit when they can see their growth, demonstrate learning in different ways, and have ownership over how they meet clear academic expectations."
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October 6, 1:47 PM
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Microsoft has published a draft code of conduct that lays out how its homegrown AI models should behave, with human control taking priority over model capability, autonomy, and even task completion.
"Microsoft's Humanist AI Code prioritizes human control, safety and oversight over autonomy."
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October 6, 1:42 PM
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The question shouldn't be how much screen time should students have, but what they are doing, what are they learning, and is technology helping?
"That's the conversation schools should be having about technology more broadly. Don't start with the tool or the number of minutes. Start with the learning and decide what tools are best to achieve the desired outcomes."
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October 5, 1:36 PM
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People remember the moment they had to decide. Four rules for building scenarios that teach — and a 30-second mini scenario you can try inside the post.
"That is why scenarios work: instead of telling learners what to do, you put them inside a situation and let them choose. Done well, a scenario turns dry content into something people feel — and what people feel, they keep."
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October 5, 1:30 PM
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As AI features flood K-12 curricula, educators are left to filter proven quality from marketing hype.
"The blurred lines between AI-enabled course materials and materials without AI can affect classrooms...The worst-case scenario...is that quality assurance at adoption no longer guarantees quality at instruction.”
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October 5, 1:23 PM
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"In this episode of This Week with EdSurge, two former educators join to discuss EdReport's recent brief and explain why it is so important to verify the efficacy of digital instructional tools."
"EdReports, an independent nonprofit that reviews K-12 curriculum, recently went looking for the evidence behind those claims. What it found raises hard questions for any district leader weighing an edtech purchase this fall."
"AI can make a paragraph sound smoother but it can’t take responsibility for its mistakes. If a tool edits “associated with” to “caused by,” or adds an overconfident claim, you will be the one answering reviewers, correcting the record or dealing with complaints."