Stephanie Boragina
@sboragina.bsky.social
🇨🇦 PhD student and instructional designer of online courses
Studying math education at the postsecondary level. Currently examining the growth of student mathematical understanding when taking asynchronous online math classes.
#MathEd #OnlineEd
Studying math education at the postsecondary level. Currently examining the growth of student mathematical understanding when taking asynchronous online math classes.
#MathEd #OnlineEd
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My essay for The Teaching Professor, "How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning" now freely available at ResearchGate
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(PDF) How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning
PDF | Last month I wrote about how students fool themselves into thinking they have learned concepts when they really haven't. This month I focus on how... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My essay for The Teaching Professor, "How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning" now freely available at ResearchGate
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Three words: pine, crab, sauce. There’s a fourth word that combines with the others to create another common word. What is it? When you finally get it, it may feel instantaneous. A recent study shows what happens in the brain during “aha” moments.
How Your Brain Creates ‘Aha’ Moments and Why They Stick | Quanta Magazine
A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Three words: pine, crab, sauce. There’s a fourth word that combines with the others to create another common word. What is it? When you finally get it, it may feel instantaneous. A recent study shows what happens in the brain during “aha” moments.
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From a report by Oxford University Press, "Teaching the AI-Native Generation," comes this quote about a 17-year-old unable to find the right words. There are many things to be sad about in this world, but this one sticks with me.
1. This is being passed off as a benefit of generative AI.
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1. This is being passed off as a benefit of generative AI.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
From a report by Oxford University Press, "Teaching the AI-Native Generation," comes this quote about a 17-year-old unable to find the right words. There are many things to be sad about in this world, but this one sticks with me.
1. This is being passed off as a benefit of generative AI.
1/x
1. This is being passed off as a benefit of generative AI.
1/x
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Another example of the increasingly common situation where AI helps an academic with intellectually challenging work (solving a 42-year-old open math problem). Seems like real value in combining expert human guidance and increasingly powerful LLM. arxiv.org/abs/2510.23513
October 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Another example of the increasingly common situation where AI helps an academic with intellectually challenging work (solving a 42-year-old open math problem). Seems like real value in combining expert human guidance and increasingly powerful LLM. arxiv.org/abs/2510.23513
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This is a heavy, emotionally charged paper... and so beautiful at the same time... a must-read. Link in the first comment.
October 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is a heavy, emotionally charged paper... and so beautiful at the same time... a must-read. Link in the first comment.
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Curious about how help-seeking behaviors relate to learning in an online learning environment? Then check out this open access (!) article authored by Chenyu Hou, featuring the outstanding mentoring of @shelbikuhlmann.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1007/s114...
Process mining measures students’ help-seeking transitions when completing assignments in an online learning and assessment platform - Metacognition and Learning
The shift towards active pedagogies in higher education that emphasize students’ engagement in their own learning in and outside of the classroom has increased the ubiquity of online learning and asse...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Curious about how help-seeking behaviors relate to learning in an online learning environment? Then check out this open access (!) article authored by Chenyu Hou, featuring the outstanding mentoring of @shelbikuhlmann.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1007/s114...
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Here's GREAT news for educators! You know all the hard work you put in to design outside of class activities to help your students learn? Well, when they do those things, in the order you intended, they actually learn more! Check it out: dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
August 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Here's GREAT news for educators! You know all the hard work you put in to design outside of class activities to help your students learn? Well, when they do those things, in the order you intended, they actually learn more! Check it out: dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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A major UNSW Sydney study found teachers suffer depression, anxiety, and stress at rates three to four times higher than the national average, largely driven by excessive administrative tasks. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Teachers’ workload, turnover intentions, and mental health: perspectives of Australian teachers - Social Psychology of Education
Teaching has long been recognised as a demanding profession. Despite growing acknowledgement of the stress and emotional exhaustion experienced by teachers, limited research has considered how these e...
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August 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
A major UNSW Sydney study found teachers suffer depression, anxiety, and stress at rates three to four times higher than the national average, largely driven by excessive administrative tasks. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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I was happy to contribute to 'AI and the future of education: disruptions, dilemmas and directions', a publication by UNESCO aligned with Digital Learning Week.
Check it out for an overview of thoughts from education experts and leaders on the #ai zeitgeist! #aied
doi.org/10.54675/KEC...
Check it out for an overview of thoughts from education experts and leaders on the #ai zeitgeist! #aied
doi.org/10.54675/KEC...
doi.org
September 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I was happy to contribute to 'AI and the future of education: disruptions, dilemmas and directions', a publication by UNESCO aligned with Digital Learning Week.
Check it out for an overview of thoughts from education experts and leaders on the #ai zeitgeist! #aied
doi.org/10.54675/KEC...
Check it out for an overview of thoughts from education experts and leaders on the #ai zeitgeist! #aied
doi.org/10.54675/KEC...
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“In educational contexts, rapid
technology adoption can create or exacerbate inequalities between early and late adopters, particularly if the technology confers significant learning advantages.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.00717 Given schools’ jagged adoption AI, this is worth considering. #eduskyAI
technology adoption can create or exacerbate inequalities between early and late adopters, particularly if the technology confers significant learning advantages.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.00717 Given schools’ jagged adoption AI, this is worth considering. #eduskyAI
Generative AI in Higher Education: Evidence from an Elite College
Generative AI is transforming higher education, yet systematic evidence on student adoption remains limited. Using novel survey data from a selective U.S. college, we document over 80 percent of stude...
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August 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“In educational contexts, rapid
technology adoption can create or exacerbate inequalities between early and late adopters, particularly if the technology confers significant learning advantages.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.00717 Given schools’ jagged adoption AI, this is worth considering. #eduskyAI
technology adoption can create or exacerbate inequalities between early and late adopters, particularly if the technology confers significant learning advantages.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.00717 Given schools’ jagged adoption AI, this is worth considering. #eduskyAI
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Aggregate Non-Repayable Aid vs Aggregate Domestic Tuition fees, 2007-08 to 2023-24, in Billions of $2023. Canada has had net-negative tuition fees for seven years now.
August 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Aggregate Non-Repayable Aid vs Aggregate Domestic Tuition fees, 2007-08 to 2023-24, in Billions of $2023. Canada has had net-negative tuition fees for seven years now.
Seems obvious, and yes: "organizations should establish clear norms for response times across different communication channels. ... Just as importantly, teams should have a shared practice for letting senders know when a timely response isn’t possible—preventing frustration and bottlenecks."
It’s Time to Streamline How We Communicate at Work hbr.org/2025/08/its-...
It’s Time to Streamline How We Communicate at Work
Misaligned communication habits—whether around response times, preferred channels, or writing style—can lead to missed deadlines, frustrated colleagues, and lost productivity. As digital tools proliferate and AI-generated writing becomes more common, it’s more important than ever for leaders to set clear, shared norms for how teams communicate. Drawing on extensive research and experience advising organizations from the U.S. Army to Microsoft, the authors outline five conversations every leader should have with their teams to build a more consistent and effective communication culture.
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August 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Seems obvious, and yes: "organizations should establish clear norms for response times across different communication channels. ... Just as importantly, teams should have a shared practice for letting senders know when a timely response isn’t possible—preventing frustration and bottlenecks."
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Another example of a persistent problem with LLMs. They do very well on standard medical questions, but when the right answer is replaced with “none of the above” performance drops.
More recent models generally have lower drops in performance. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
More recent models generally have lower drops in performance. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
August 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Another example of a persistent problem with LLMs. They do very well on standard medical questions, but when the right answer is replaced with “none of the above” performance drops.
More recent models generally have lower drops in performance. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
More recent models generally have lower drops in performance. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Those of us studying edtech platforms and infrastructures in education talk a bit about vendor "lock-ins" - how schools can't get out of a platform once they're on it. This is a magnificent paper about that by @lucascone.bsky.social and Signe Sophus Lai www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
August 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Those of us studying edtech platforms and infrastructures in education talk a bit about vendor "lock-ins" - how schools can't get out of a platform once they're on it. This is a magnificent paper about that by @lucascone.bsky.social and Signe Sophus Lai www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Contradiction is key. For change to happen, students must recognize that what they believed is incompatible with the correct view. If there’s no conflict, they may just absorb the new fact into the wrong framework.
August 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Contradiction is key. For change to happen, students must recognize that what they believed is incompatible with the correct view. If there’s no conflict, they may just absorb the new fact into the wrong framework.
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Not all wrong answers are equal. I used to think students just needed the right information to fix misconceptions but then I read the work of Michelene Chi🧵⬇️
August 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Not all wrong answers are equal. I used to think students just needed the right information to fix misconceptions but then I read the work of Michelene Chi🧵⬇️
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Nice thing about this figure is unlike benchmarks on factuality or hallucinates eg FACTscore we dont know if the test questions reflected real world use. OpenAI basically gave us the stat we were wondering about (2) More info from system card cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce...
August 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Nice thing about this figure is unlike benchmarks on factuality or hallucinates eg FACTscore we dont know if the test questions reflected real world use. OpenAI basically gave us the stat we were wondering about (2) More info from system card cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce...
"Listening Rooms involvea pair of friends participating in a discussion with prompts provided in a ‘room’. ... One important aspect is that there is no authoritarian presence in the room, just the two friends chatting about what they see on the cards in front of them."
Laura Dyer provides a brief communication asking What if listening rooms could become a method of assessment? in #JLDHE #36 https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi36.1519 Laura reaffirms the need for a diverse and inclusive range of assessment methods in contemporary HE. #LoveLD
August 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Listening Rooms involvea pair of friends participating in a discussion with prompts provided in a ‘room’. ... One important aspect is that there is no authoritarian presence in the room, just the two friends chatting about what they see on the cards in front of them."
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“Starting in July 2024, AI was suddenly everywhere all at once in Latin America after Meta Platforms started incorporating chatbots in its apps across the region. Whether users wanted them or not, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram became homes for a variety of AI bots.”
Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams
When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.
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July 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“Starting in July 2024, AI was suddenly everywhere all at once in Latin America after Meta Platforms started incorporating chatbots in its apps across the region. Whether users wanted them or not, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram became homes for a variety of AI bots.”
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To me, this part is most important. I've had students read multiple ai generated “responses” to discussion questions they’d also answered themselves. It takes reading through about 3 before you start to realize it’s all the same. But we mostly use AI independently so don’t see the repetition.
July 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
To me, this part is most important. I've had students read multiple ai generated “responses” to discussion questions they’d also answered themselves. It takes reading through about 3 before you start to realize it’s all the same. But we mostly use AI independently so don’t see the repetition.
"Some students said that they liked the AI’s topic more than their own human-generated topics. But the students hadn’t compared notes: only I had seen every single AI topic."
"Rather than taking an 'abstinence-only' approach to AI, I decided to put the central, existential question to them directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice would be theirs." —Piers Gelly for @literaryhub.bsky.social
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What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom
My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t…
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July 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
"Some students said that they liked the AI’s topic more than their own human-generated topics. But the students hadn’t compared notes: only I had seen every single AI topic."
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We are hiring an Academic Integrity Strategist within our fabulous Centre for Pedagogical Innovation @brocku.ca:
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The post end date is August 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Academic Integrity Strategist
Brock University is located on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here today. This territory is covered by the Upper Canada ...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
We are hiring an Academic Integrity Strategist within our fabulous Centre for Pedagogical Innovation @brocku.ca:
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The post end date is August 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Starting to see this in more parts of the world: data from Taiwan shows unemployment among university grads is higher than unemployment in the rest of the population. If returns to education really are falling, this is an enormous global challenge to higher ed.
Unemployment hits seven-month high - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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July 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Starting to see this in more parts of the world: data from Taiwan shows unemployment among university grads is higher than unemployment in the rest of the population. If returns to education really are falling, this is an enormous global challenge to higher ed.
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Neat example of AI in the humanities. A Google model trained on Latin text fills in lost parts of Latin inscriptions & identifies related texts.
Historians increased their accuracy by 44% when working with the AI (Though AI alone beats historians, historian + AI was usually best by a small amount).
Historians increased their accuracy by 44% when working with the AI (Though AI alone beats historians, historian + AI was usually best by a small amount).
July 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Neat example of AI in the humanities. A Google model trained on Latin text fills in lost parts of Latin inscriptions & identifies related texts.
Historians increased their accuracy by 44% when working with the AI (Though AI alone beats historians, historian + AI was usually best by a small amount).
Historians increased their accuracy by 44% when working with the AI (Though AI alone beats historians, historian + AI was usually best by a small amount).
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What was new to me was the full digital skills framework, with foundational skills, life skills, and skills for work which I think are a very useful framework for guiding induction and employability activities and/or for students self-reviewing their own skills.
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July 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
What was new to me was the full digital skills framework, with foundational skills, life skills, and skills for work which I think are a very useful framework for guiding induction and employability activities and/or for students self-reviewing their own skills.
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