AI_Agents_for_Lifelong_Learning_1756985742.pdf
JUTLP_Rana_2025.pdf
AI_Agents_for_Lifelong_Learning_1756985742.pdf
How Can Vibe Coding Transform Programming Education? – Communications of the ACM
AI will make our children stupid | David James and Carl Hendrick | The Critic Magazine
Of all the recent signs that Western civilization is circling the drain, the most depressing is the apparent decline in IQs. The so-called Flynn Effect once showed IQs rising steadily.
The threat that AI poses to intelligence is existential: it allows children to outsource their thinking entirely
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
“As we transition from the internet era to the AI era, what we’re consuming is not only ever more low-value, ultra-processed information, but more information that is essentially predigested, delivered in a way that is designed to bypass important human functions, such as assessing, filtering and summarising information, or actually considering a problem rather than finessing the first solution presented to us.” (Sophie McBain.)
Artificial intelligence is the opposite of education
Or: what if there is no middle ground?
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
Why critical thinking is key to using AI wisely – Alt Ed Austin
Returning guest writer Stephanie Simoes is the mind behind Critikid.com , a website that teaches critical thinking to children and teens through interactive courses, worksheets, and lesson plans. This article is meant to help educators (and parents) more effectively teach kids to use large lang
Why critical thinking is key to using AI wisely – Alt Ed Austin
Returning guest writer Stephanie Simoes is the mind behind Critikid.com , a website that teaches critical thinking to children and teens through interactive courses, worksheets, and lesson plans. This article is meant to help educators (and parents) more effectively teach kids to use large lang
An Open Letter to My Students about AI
AI for students: Learn to thrive! Understand AI's impact, use it wisely, boost your critical thinking, and succeed in the AI era.
In Praise of Memory
Offloading must follow internalization
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet (2).pdf
In Praise of Assistance
A response to the cognitive offloading literature and Terry Underwood's "The Humanities and AI: A Year of Reckoning"
AI Conversations Behind Closed Doors
Student Focus Groups Reveal What's Actually Happening
AI_Agents_for_Lifelong_Learning_1756985742.pdf
Education Futures
Explore research, publications, and workshops on the future of education and discover how Education Futures can spark fresh thinking and tangible innovations.
Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits
A reading for your students
OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth
Soon we can have chatbots grade the work of chatbots.
Student Question of the Week: Does AI Kill Student Thinking?
New Series: Questions from Future Educators
The Algorithmic Turn: The Emerging Evidence On AI Tutoring
If we take learning to be a durable change in long-term memory and if we take instruction as the key lever of that and if AI can teach better than humans, not as some distant possibility but as an emerging reality, then we must reckon with what that reveals about teaching itself.
The lesson here is not that AI has discovered a new kind of learning, but that it has finally begun to exploit the one we already understand.
But let’s be clear. Again, the history of Edtech is a story of failure, very expensive failure. This is not merely a chronicle of wasted resources, though the financial cost has been considerable. More troubling is the opportunity cost: the reforms not pursued, the teacher training not funded, the evidence-based interventions not scaled because capital and attention were directed toward shiny technological solutions. As Larry Cuban documented in his work on educational technology, we have repeatedly mistaken the novelty of the medium for the substance of the pedagogy.
The reasons for these failures are instructive. Many EdTech interventions have been solutions in search of problems, designed by technologists with limited understanding of how learning actually occurs. They have prioritised engagement over mastery, confusing students’ enjoyment of a platform with their acquisition of knowledge. They have ignored decades of cognitive science research in favour of intuitive but ineffective approaches. They have failed to account for implementation challenges, teacher training requirements, and the messy realities of classroom practice.
1,001 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizations
A snapshot of how top companies, governments, researchers and startups are enhancing their work with Google's AI solutions.
Podcast with Adam Pacton: The Higher Education Crisis & the Future of Written Assesment
The essay has stuck around...Should it stick around? I don't think so.
How Are Students Using AI?
A W. W. Norton newsletter with Annette Vee, offering insights and ideas for building AI literacy.
AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose
Even before generative AI went mainstream, fewer people were reading books.
AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose
AI in education is a public problem
Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash Over the past year or so, a narrative that AI will inevitably transform education has become widespread. You can find it in the pronouncements of investors, tech ind…
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AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading
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.
IS AI making us dumb?
AI is saving money, time, and energy but in return it might be taking away one of the most precious natural gifts humans have.