Signy Emptifier
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Educational staring contests & fresh tasting equivocation
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There are four main arguments for AI in education:
1. Efficiency, saving teachers time
2. Equity, making education inclusive
3. Improving outcomes by personalizing learning
4. It's inevitable
Is it true?
Nope.
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1. Efficiency, saving teachers time
2. Equity, making education inclusive
3. Improving outcomes by personalizing learning
4. It's inevitable
Is it true?
Nope.
Micro 🧵
August 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There are four main arguments for AI in education:
1. Efficiency, saving teachers time
2. Equity, making education inclusive
3. Improving outcomes by personalizing learning
4. It's inevitable
Is it true?
Nope.
Micro 🧵
1. Efficiency, saving teachers time
2. Equity, making education inclusive
3. Improving outcomes by personalizing learning
4. It's inevitable
Is it true?
Nope.
Micro 🧵
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"AI can now produce essays credible enough to pass as human work. The humanities tend to reward theoretical fluency and stylistic polish-areas where AI excels...By contrast STEM subjects...are harder for AI to mimic."
You understand we don't set essays to increase the total number of essays right?
You understand we don't set essays to increase the total number of essays right?
yet again the dominance of cows is being entrenched - the hege-moo-ny perhaps
AI is peeling back the layers of 'low-value' work - NZ may be well-placed to adapt | RNZ News share.google/jynZSfVQW3Ia...
AI is peeling back the layers of 'low-value' work - NZ may be well-placed to adapt | RNZ News share.google/jynZSfVQW3Ia...
AI is peeling back the layers of 'low-value' work - NZ may be well-placed to adapt
As generative AI advances at breakneck speed, it is upending assumptions about which jobs are "safe" from automation.
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August 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"AI can now produce essays credible enough to pass as human work. The humanities tend to reward theoretical fluency and stylistic polish-areas where AI excels...By contrast STEM subjects...are harder for AI to mimic."
You understand we don't set essays to increase the total number of essays right?
You understand we don't set essays to increase the total number of essays right?
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🚨 New special issue alert! 🚨
✨Democratic Methodologies in Education Research✨
Check out these titles and abstracts 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/toc/riea/121/2
✨Democratic Methodologies in Education Research✨
Check out these titles and abstracts 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/toc/riea/121/2
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August 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🚨 New special issue alert! 🚨
✨Democratic Methodologies in Education Research✨
Check out these titles and abstracts 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/toc/riea/121/2
✨Democratic Methodologies in Education Research✨
Check out these titles and abstracts 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/toc/riea/121/2
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Any academics keeping track of how your papers are being used by publishers to create value as data for AI companies, here's the latest financial report from T&F on its further "Data Licensing Agreements" for access to its "content archive" www.informa.com/globalassets...
July 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Any academics keeping track of how your papers are being used by publishers to create value as data for AI companies, here's the latest financial report from T&F on its further "Data Licensing Agreements" for access to its "content archive" www.informa.com/globalassets...
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A sneak peek of our exciting new special issue incoming for August on...
✨Democratic Methodologies in Education Research✨
Guest Editors: Charlotte Haines Lyon @haineslyon.bsky.social and Deborah Ralls
✨Democratic Methodologies in Education Research✨
Guest Editors: Charlotte Haines Lyon @haineslyon.bsky.social and Deborah Ralls
July 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A sneak peek of our exciting new special issue incoming for August on...
✨Democratic Methodologies in Education Research✨
Guest Editors: Charlotte Haines Lyon @haineslyon.bsky.social and Deborah Ralls
✨Democratic Methodologies in Education Research✨
Guest Editors: Charlotte Haines Lyon @haineslyon.bsky.social and Deborah Ralls
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And here’s what’s wrong with Turnitin’s business model and other predatory EdTech companies: theconversation.com/clones-in-th...
Clones in the classroom: why universities must be wary of embracing AI-driven teaching tools
Big EdTech is increasingly filling a gap left by university underfunding. But tertiary stakeholders must question whether such “solutions” really contribute to a university education.
theconversation.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
And here’s what’s wrong with Turnitin’s business model and other predatory EdTech companies: theconversation.com/clones-in-th...
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This is good reporting bc it’s often hard to get the specific numbers. But I’ve written about this before: Turnitin is a predatory EdTech tool that uses mora panics to siphon public edu funding into private coffers at the expense of student IP and educators. calmatters.org/education/hi...
California colleges spend millions on AI detectors. Is the faulty tech worth it?
Turnitin’s AI detectors are flawed and the company demands forever access to student papers.
calmatters.org
June 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
This is good reporting bc it’s often hard to get the specific numbers. But I’ve written about this before: Turnitin is a predatory EdTech tool that uses mora panics to siphon public edu funding into private coffers at the expense of student IP and educators. calmatters.org/education/hi...
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"How did human beings freely bring themselves to lose their freedom?"
New in review, Frank Ruda on Aaron Schuster's How to Research Like a Dog, from @mitpress.bsky.social: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/frank_ruda_r...
New in review, Frank Ruda on Aaron Schuster's How to Research Like a Dog, from @mitpress.bsky.social: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/frank_ruda_r...
June 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"How did human beings freely bring themselves to lose their freedom?"
New in review, Frank Ruda on Aaron Schuster's How to Research Like a Dog, from @mitpress.bsky.social: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/frank_ruda_r...
New in review, Frank Ruda on Aaron Schuster's How to Research Like a Dog, from @mitpress.bsky.social: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/frank_ruda_r...
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'The Lacanian Teacher. Education, Pedagogy and Enjoyment.'
Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...
The Lacanian Teacher
This book provides a reading of Lacan and education with powerful implications for a rethinking of the figure of the teacher.
link.springer.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
'The Lacanian Teacher. Education, Pedagogy and Enjoyment.'
Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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A race is on to produce statistical evidence of the effects of AI in education. It's leading to a rush of viral studies that play well on social media but don't stand up so well to methodological scrutiny. New post codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/e...
Enumerating AI effects in education
Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash Over recent weeks, controversy has surfaced over research publications claiming to show statistical evidence that generative AI has beneficial effects on learning.…
codeactsineducation.wordpress.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A race is on to produce statistical evidence of the effects of AI in education. It's leading to a rush of viral studies that play well on social media but don't stand up so well to methodological scrutiny. New post codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/e...
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🚨 New issue alert! ✨
journals.sagepub.com/toc/riea/121/1
Give our May issue a browse for our latest articles bringing insights from theory, policy, and practice in education research.
Check out these titles and abstracts 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/toc/riea/121/1
Give our May issue a browse for our latest articles bringing insights from theory, policy, and practice in education research.
Check out these titles and abstracts 🧵
May 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
🚨 New issue alert! ✨
journals.sagepub.com/toc/riea/121/1
Give our May issue a browse for our latest articles bringing insights from theory, policy, and practice in education research.
Check out these titles and abstracts 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/toc/riea/121/1
Give our May issue a browse for our latest articles bringing insights from theory, policy, and practice in education research.
Check out these titles and abstracts 🧵
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May 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Perhaps it would be wise to present this account. The International Teacher Education Research Collective (ITERC) is a network of researchers, teachers, and students with a particular focus om teacher education. The collective has members on five continents and around 20 countries and is growing.
May 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Perhaps it would be wise to present this account. The International Teacher Education Research Collective (ITERC) is a network of researchers, teachers, and students with a particular focus om teacher education. The collective has members on five continents and around 20 countries and is growing.
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Shout out to @en-demic.bsky.social for offering the first widely available translation of Laruelle's essay on mysticism and the Vision-in-One. Probably my favorite piece of work by Laruelle I've read. Link in the show notes on YT--and that link is below!
youtu.be/jDoocDoMtfk
youtu.be/jDoocDoMtfk
Mysticism Without Transcendence? Laruelle’s 'Vision-in-One' with Jeremy R. Smith
YouTube video by Acid Horizon
youtu.be
April 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Shout out to @en-demic.bsky.social for offering the first widely available translation of Laruelle's essay on mysticism and the Vision-in-One. Probably my favorite piece of work by Laruelle I've read. Link in the show notes on YT--and that link is below!
youtu.be/jDoocDoMtfk
youtu.be/jDoocDoMtfk
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Nothing really exists in education until there is an OECD test for it. So we can now expect the international "AI literacy" ranking results in 2030, in case any countries wanted yet another way to be seen to perform on a made-up education metric.
www.oecd.org/en/about/pro...
www.oecd.org/en/about/pro...
PISA 2029 Media and Artificial Intelligence Literacy
The PISA 2029 Media & Artificial Intelligence Literacy (MAIL) assessment will shed light on whether young students have had opportunities to learn and to engage proactively and critically in a world w...
www.oecd.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Nothing really exists in education until there is an OECD test for it. So we can now expect the international "AI literacy" ranking results in 2030, in case any countries wanted yet another way to be seen to perform on a made-up education metric.
www.oecd.org/en/about/pro...
www.oecd.org/en/about/pro...
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Tomorrow with Lepht Hand
April 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Tomorrow with Lepht Hand
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New education and training act just dropped
Incl changes to s127, which is about Board priorities.
#nzpol
Incl changes to s127, which is about Board priorities.
#nzpol
Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2) 140-1 (2025), Government Bill Contents – New Zealand Legislation
www.legislation.govt.nz
April 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
New education and training act just dropped
Incl changes to s127, which is about Board priorities.
#nzpol
Incl changes to s127, which is about Board priorities.
#nzpol
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Since anthropic announced its new university AI release this week, it’s worth circulating my “Clones in the Classroom” article. Silicon Valley AI are predatory EdTech companies designed to Hoover up public funding for education instead of investing in teachers theconversation.com/clones-in-th...
Clones in the classroom: why universities must be wary of embracing AI-driven teaching tools
Big EdTech is increasingly filling a gap left by university underfunding. But tertiary stakeholders must question whether such “solutions” really contribute to a university education.
theconversation.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Since anthropic announced its new university AI release this week, it’s worth circulating my “Clones in the Classroom” article. Silicon Valley AI are predatory EdTech companies designed to Hoover up public funding for education instead of investing in teachers theconversation.com/clones-in-th...
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Turnitin turned academic writing into a suspicious activity with its similarity score, making a fortune by monetizing plagiarism ... and now it's *actively encouraging* students to write with AI as long as it's "transparent"? 1/2
www.turnitin.com/press/turnit...
www.turnitin.com/press/turnit...
Turnitin launches Turnitin Clarity
Turnitin's new offering brings transparency and integrity insights into the student writing process.
www.turnitin.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Turnitin turned academic writing into a suspicious activity with its similarity score, making a fortune by monetizing plagiarism ... and now it's *actively encouraging* students to write with AI as long as it's "transparent"? 1/2
www.turnitin.com/press/turnit...
www.turnitin.com/press/turnit...
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Turnitin now intends to police academic writing by getting students to write directly on its platform and subjecting them to real-time text surveillance.
Turnitin remains an engine of automated mistrust in education codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/a...
Turnitin remains an engine of automated mistrust in education codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/a...
Automating mistrust
Ben Williamson Turnitin can now analyse students’ individual writing styles to tackle ‘contract cheating’. Image by Xavi The acquisition of plagiarism detection company Turnitin f…
codeactsineducation.wordpress.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Turnitin now intends to police academic writing by getting students to write directly on its platform and subjecting them to real-time text surveillance.
Turnitin remains an engine of automated mistrust in education codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/a...
Turnitin remains an engine of automated mistrust in education codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/a...
Oraxiom 2 is out, a special issue on Non-Philosophical Encounters with Built Environments. There are some new translations and several new articles. Give it a l👀k
March 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Oraxiom 2 is out, a special issue on Non-Philosophical Encounters with Built Environments. There are some new translations and several new articles. Give it a l👀k
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This issue includes my article, "The Multitude Will Never Be Philosophers," which you can read here: oraxiom.org/no2/7Smith.pdf
oraxiom.org
March 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This issue includes my article, "The Multitude Will Never Be Philosophers," which you can read here: oraxiom.org/no2/7Smith.pdf
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Issue 2 of Oraxiom is now live: www.oraxiom.org/issue2.html
Issue 2
www.oraxiom.org
March 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Issue 2 of Oraxiom is now live: www.oraxiom.org/issue2.html
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this call is still open - deadline 28 Feb
CfP: Cinema and Education, a special issue forthcoming at Research in Education edited by myself and Sajad Kabgani
Full details here: journals.sagepub.com/page/rie/cfps
@researchined.bsky.social
Full details here: journals.sagepub.com/page/rie/cfps
@researchined.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
this call is still open - deadline 28 Feb