Carla Aerts TrAinOfThought
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Carla Aerts TrAinOfThought
@carlaaerts.bsky.social
Futures of Education | Speaker | AI in Learning & Knowledge | Arts | Eternally Curious
Off to the AIEOU first summit at Oxford University. I will be present a talk on Humanising the Algorithm, but not quite what it seems. Sowing some seeds based on writings by Alison Gopnik, Martha Nüssbaum and Rupert Wegerif towards AI in Education.
#GenAI #AI #conference
aieou.web.ox.ac.uk/events
September 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
UNESCO's Paris Digital Learning Week last week saw the publication of a multi-author global report and think piece mine on Challenging hyper-personalization: Towards (re-)socializing learning in human-to-human-to-machine dialogue. (p.58)
Download: lnkd.in/ex49GZch
#ai #learning #futures #thinkpiece
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The #polymath #festival is coming up and I'll be speaking on 26th August in a panel that makes me rather excited on "Towards an Interdisciplinary Education System". Big topic, but discussing this with Carl Gombrich and Ashish Jaiswal, it can't but be inspiring for all of us by The DaVinci Network
August 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Recommended read as the echo chamber’s lure and resonance are stronger and louder than ever. Aeon Essay
#echochamber #ai #socialmedia #digitalworld #reinforcement #genai #personalisation

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Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays
First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult
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July 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
My new post on Substack on Byung-Chul Han’s Crisis of Narration (and what it could mean for education)

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My new Substack post on Byung-Chul's Han Crisis of Narration and what it may mean for education. | Carla Aerts
My new Substack post on Byung-Chul's Han Crisis of Narration and what it may mean for education. #learning #dialogue #philsophy #digitalworld #airevolution #narration #story #teaching #informatio...
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July 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I walk the road ahead
Insects buzzing in the heat
Joy of the skylark
June 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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June 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Still at London Edtech week. Discussing the AI evolutions in #education in its early days. #efficiency #retention #outcome and #learner renewed focus. Should have been there all along. Maria Spies highlights shifts of focus, triggered by #ai #genai
Edtech needs to rethink to concept of scale. | Carla Aerts
Edtech needs to rethink to concept of scale. Thank you! Maria Spies HolonIQ Trends in Edtech investment to get us underway to consider some AI and EdTech questions. London EdTech Week DOHE
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June 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reflections on a Keynote and the measure of it.
#paradigmshift #assessment #keynote #reflection #genai #ai #learners #futures #education
June 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Just finished my keynote a the e-AA conference and it seems to have been well-received. Thank you @ntoka.dev
#ai #assessment #tech #dialogue #paradigmshift
At the eAA conference today and just got massively inspired by @carlaaerts.bsky.social thought provoking Keynote.
June 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The cracks in the reasoning capability claim or (over-)promise. Interesting research by Apple that exposes reasoning in these models may not be quite what it seems...
#llms #genai #reasoning #claim #accuracy #neuralnetworks

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Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities | Carla Aerts
The cracks in the reasoning capability claim or (over-)promise. Interesting research by Apple that exposes reasoning in these models may not be quite what it seems... #llms #genai #reasoning #claim #...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Podcast on joining the dots in #education and #learning in the age of #ai Great fun talking to Al Kingsley and Matt Jessop
#education #innovation #futures #learners #ai #breakingthemould | Carla Aerts
Podcast recorded a few weeks ago has arrived. It was a privilege to share thoughts and experiences with Al Kingsley MBE and Matt Jessop. I had a wonderful time talking to them. Links below. #educat...
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June 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This Brain Discovery Could Unlock AI’s Ability to See the Future.
Reinforcement learning and rewards not just a question of instant gratification.
#dopamine #reward #reinforcement #algorithm #planning #ai
June 8, 2025 at 5:48 AM
We Are Free to Change the World: A Lesson in Love and Disobedience. If you are going to read one book this year, this should be the one. A Lesson for our time like no other.
#book #philosopher #totalitarianism #freedom #humanity #thinking #questioning

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We Are Free to Change the World
Hannah Arendt’s Lesson in Love and Disobedience – Lyndsey Stonebridge
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May 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Over the past 2 days, I discussed the Education Futures with a great bunch of people in Cambridge - DEFI, beneficial to institutional & policy thinking. For a start we should consider weak (and not so weak) signals AI is already revealing engage in #anticipatory #thinking. #learning #ai #futures
May 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A while back I posted this article on The Use of AI for Better Education: a response to Rebecca Wintrhop's Davos take-aways. Rebecca is co-author of the Disengaged Teen and Leads the Centre for Universal Education @brookings.edu
#genai #neuroplasticity #cognitive #manipulation
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May 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
New substack post on @weinberger.org in conversation with Prof K. Werbach and some take-aways and my interpretation of them. Not representing the podcast. My thoughts in response to Accountable AI: Deeper Implications.
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#ml #genai #implications #thinking #shaping #human #learning
Accountable AI: Deeper Implications
A conversation with David Weinberger and Professor Kevin Werbach
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May 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The AI generation: Balancing technology and socialization in education. Fascinating session with variety of perspectives for reflection. www.brookings.edu/events/the-a...
@brookings.edu #ai #companions #anthropomorphication #mentalhealth #relationships
The AI generation: Balancing technology and socialization in education
On May 6, the Center for Universal Education will host a conversation on the impacts of AI on children's education and development.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Me and Kevin Werbach talking about AI. I like and respect Kevin in equal measure, which is a lot. Plus, a cold gave me a super bass voice, so I sound especially authoritative, don't I? DON'T I???
What if AI is changing not just business and our lives, but the very way we understand the world? Renowned author and internet thinker @weinberger.org joins me on the Road to Accountable AI to discuss the deeper human implications of AI.

apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform.
May 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social heard your discussion with that wonderful Mr Stewart on the trans debate. Unbelievable the bandwidth this is taking up. But thank you for the response to it during The Rest is Politics. Some common sense prevailing.
#trans #policy #debate #polarisation
May 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I went into a bit of a mental and philosphical perusal, being somewhat intrigued by 'reality' and how we perceive it.
Wrote a very short essay on my perusals. For those interested.
#philosophy #genAi #metaphysics #ancientgreeks #dialogue #modernphilosophers #thinking #ontology
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May 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Article on AI and its WEIRD impact on education on Substack.
#ai #genai #weird #learning #teaching #education
April 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM