Dwayne Ripley
@dwayneripley.bsky.social
Creating and translating knowledge on the learning sciences. PhD in design for interdisciplinary education.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7812-0614
ORCID: 0000-0002-7812-0614
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I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence.
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
Developing guidelines for supervising Neurodivergent HDR students
redcap.unisq.edu.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence.
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
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I'm excited to launch a new course offering AI professional development for educators. The Practical AI Process covers GenAI from foundation to advanced levels. Learn more in the article. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduf="/hashtag/AIEducation" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #NewCourse #OnlineCourse #PD #Training #Education
New Online Course: The Practical AI Process
I'm excited to launch a new course offering AI professional development for educators. The Practical AI Process covers GenAI from foundation to advanced levels. Learn more in the article.
leonfurze.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm excited to launch a new course offering AI professional development for educators. The Practical AI Process covers GenAI from foundation to advanced levels. Learn more in the article. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduf="/hashtag/AIEducation" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #NewCourse #OnlineCourse #PD #Training #Education
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This is a really important issue. Who is doing good work on it?
wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...
wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...
Students taking resits need specific support
There’s a notable absence of consideration for students taking resits in both pedagogical and policy conversations. Karen Lander sets out the need for change There’s a striking absence of consideratio...
wonkhe.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
This is a really important issue. Who is doing good work on it?
wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...
wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...
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Hey entrepreneurs who think #GenAI is the solution to all of education's problems! I think you're wrong, but if you want to be right, start by reading this article and designing your GenAI to do everything it recommends. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1177/2372...
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hey entrepreneurs who think #GenAI is the solution to all of education's problems! I think you're wrong, but if you want to be right, start by reading this article and designing your GenAI to do everything it recommends. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1177/2372...
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So I'll have 100+ papers to desk review tmrw 😔 It's not all AI, though publisher says that's a likely contributor. But I don't fully understand what else is driving this crazy increase - or what to do before journals collapse under the strain
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
So I'll have 100+ papers to desk review tmrw 😔 It's not all AI, though publisher says that's a likely contributor. But I don't fully understand what else is driving this crazy increase - or what to do before journals collapse under the strain
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AI search is 5.6% of search traffic rn and has grown 126% yoy. 98% of chatGPT users still use google. They just route by query type now: LLMs handle more research/complex q's, search handles more transactional/navigational searches. Seems more like a behavioral split and not direct replacement.
October 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
AI search is 5.6% of search traffic rn and has grown 126% yoy. 98% of chatGPT users still use google. They just route by query type now: LLMs handle more research/complex q's, search handles more transactional/navigational searches. Seems more like a behavioral split and not direct replacement.
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"Education should teach students to grapple with complexity. AI is designed to avoid it. This mismatch is yet another reason to slow roll the rush to put AI in students’ hands." www.edweek.org/technology/o...
AI Is Trained to Avoid These 3 Words That Are Essential to Learning (Opinion)
Chatbots aren’t designed to model the type of thinking we expect from our students.
www.edweek.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Education should teach students to grapple with complexity. AI is designed to avoid it. This mismatch is yet another reason to slow roll the rush to put AI in students’ hands." www.edweek.org/technology/o...
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In this meta-analysis, topic knowledge was not related to people's subjective perceptions of the truthfulness of content (i.e., credibility perceptions). Source credibility, argument quality, and ease of understanding (fluency) had the strongest relations. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Factors Associated With Information Credibility Perceptions: A Meta-Analysis - Mengxue Ou, Shirley S. Ho, 2024
Research on factors influencing information credibility judgment is increasing, whereas their findings are mixed. This study conducted a meta-analysis of 85 emp...
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In this meta-analysis, topic knowledge was not related to people's subjective perceptions of the truthfulness of content (i.e., credibility perceptions). Source credibility, argument quality, and ease of understanding (fluency) had the strongest relations. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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New open access paper by Simon Knight in AER. Lots to reflect upon.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Am I an Education Researcher? - The Australian Educational Researcher
How individual researchers and communities of scholars situate themselves with respect to each other has a range of consequences, relating to issues from identity and norms of practices, to how one is benchmarked or positioned to apply for jobs or funding. Education, perhaps more than other disciplines, has a longstanding attention to tensions in this situating. This paper provides a reflection from an individual researcher, relating their experience to the literature, and collated and original analysis of data relating to education research in Australia, to provide an instrumental case study. It does this through framing of disciplines in relation to areas of knowledge, organisational units, and communities of researchers. The paper provides an overview of the discipline, including some key organisational features and updating of data commonly used in benchmarking exercises (while recognising the significant limitations of such data). The paper is intended to support researchers in their own reflection, and perhaps provoke (senior) researchers in considering challenges we face.
link.springer.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
New open access paper by Simon Knight in AER. Lots to reflect upon.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Clear articulation of the current situation. Being critical of educational technology doesn't mean you are anti-technology.
Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduf="/hashtag/AIEducation" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #DigitalTech #DigitalTechnologies
Technology is Actually Pretty Great
Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability.
leonfurze.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Clear articulation of the current situation. Being critical of educational technology doesn't mean you are anti-technology.
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"Hype is no longer fleeting noise. It has become institutionalised, calculable, and consequential."
Neat little essay on studying hype practices, devices, and techniques www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/h...
Neat little essay on studying hype practices, devices, and techniques www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/h...
Hype is not noise: Why we need Hype Studies
In this article, Professor Neil Pollock, Chair in Innovation and Social Informatics at the University of Edinburgh Business School, and Professor Robin Williams, Director of the Institute for the Stud...
www.business-school.ed.ac.uk
October 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Hype is no longer fleeting noise. It has become institutionalised, calculable, and consequential."
Neat little essay on studying hype practices, devices, and techniques www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/h...
Neat little essay on studying hype practices, devices, and techniques www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/h...
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New education technologies are only as powerful as the communities that guide their use. Opening a new browser tab is easy; creating the conditions for good learning is hard.
#AI #EdTech #Education
share.google/RuqMMIrMj73d...
#AI #EdTech #Education
share.google/RuqMMIrMj73d...
What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools
It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.
share.google
October 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New education technologies are only as powerful as the communities that guide their use. Opening a new browser tab is easy; creating the conditions for good learning is hard.
#AI #EdTech #Education
share.google/RuqMMIrMj73d...
#AI #EdTech #Education
share.google/RuqMMIrMj73d...
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“I don’t mind giving a tip at all,” one Sydney resident said. “My tip? Don’t push bullshit American practices on Australians."
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/01/t...
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/01/t...
New ‘This Is Australia, Dickhead’ Option Added To Tip Screen — The Shovel
“When I go into pick up my takeaway pizza, it’s nice to know I have the choice to add a little extra … context about what country we’re in"
theshovel.com.au
September 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“I don’t mind giving a tip at all,” one Sydney resident said. “My tip? Don’t push bullshit American practices on Australians."
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/01/t...
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/01/t...
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AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers buff.ly/OlGwaFP
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
Some companies are working to remedy the issue.
buff.ly
September 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers buff.ly/OlGwaFP
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New publication alert! 🚨
Approaches to educational curation: how lecturers in higher education incorporate educational resources in course designs
By R.H. Leighton et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #EducationalResources
Approaches to educational curation: how lecturers in higher education incorporate educational resources in course designs
By R.H. Leighton et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #EducationalResources
September 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
New publication alert! 🚨
Approaches to educational curation: how lecturers in higher education incorporate educational resources in course designs
By R.H. Leighton et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #EducationalResources
Approaches to educational curation: how lecturers in higher education incorporate educational resources in course designs
By R.H. Leighton et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #EducationalResources
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Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social
New policy brief: Educators should reassess the hidden impacts of ed tech ecosystems on teaching, learning, and student data. bit.ly/46C2JXT
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
nepc.colorado.edu
September 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social
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"The better way forward, I’d wager, is both simple and drastic: to consider A.I. as the constructed piece of code it fundamentally is, not a mystical black box with unlimited potential... (1/4) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"The better way forward, I’d wager, is both simple and drastic: to consider A.I. as the constructed piece of code it fundamentally is, not a mystical black box with unlimited potential... (1/4) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...
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ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
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In other news, sky is blue, sea is wet, and anyone who has worked with machine learning has known this all along
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
In other news, sky is blue, sea is wet, and anyone who has worked with machine learning has known this all along
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
This shows that it's not economically viable to reduce, and impossible to eliminate AI hallucinations.
The responsibilty for what AI spits out is up to the user.
Applying a critical lens to information and developing an understanding of how knowledge is created becomes more important than ever.
The responsibilty for what AI spits out is up to the user.
Applying a critical lens to information and developing an understanding of how knowledge is created becomes more important than ever.
This is a really fascinating article on why LLMs will likely always suffer from hallucinations and how the fixes are unpalatable to average consumers. It suggest general use LLMs will always have hallucinations, whereas more bespoke LLMs could be made more reliable, at significant expense.
OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It
OpenAI's latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as "hallucination".
www.sciencealert.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This shows that it's not economically viable to reduce, and impossible to eliminate AI hallucinations.
The responsibilty for what AI spits out is up to the user.
Applying a critical lens to information and developing an understanding of how knowledge is created becomes more important than ever.
The responsibilty for what AI spits out is up to the user.
Applying a critical lens to information and developing an understanding of how knowledge is created becomes more important than ever.
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Looking for someone who has researched the impact of violent images on the news and via scrolling on children's health and wellbeing to write a piece for #EduResearchMatters. Please reach out to Naomi Barnes or Jenna Price if you have the expertise to comment on this in the context of education.
September 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Looking for someone who has researched the impact of violent images on the news and via scrolling on children's health and wellbeing to write a piece for #EduResearchMatters. Please reach out to Naomi Barnes or Jenna Price if you have the expertise to comment on this in the context of education.
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🗣️ When is using #GenAI a helpful shortcut, and when is using it really just cutting yourself short?
Find out in this (short!) article in Psychology Today by yours truly.
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky #Expertise
Find out in this (short!) article in Psychology Today by yours truly.
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky #Expertise
Learning With GenAI: Shortcuts Versus Cutting Yourself Short
When should you use generative AI to learn? Some say you should use generative AI all the time; others say never. Your answer should depend on your goals.
www.psychologytoday.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🗣️ When is using #GenAI a helpful shortcut, and when is using it really just cutting yourself short?
Find out in this (short!) article in Psychology Today by yours truly.
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky #Expertise
Find out in this (short!) article in Psychology Today by yours truly.
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky #Expertise