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Jon Jackson
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Senior Lecturer & Programme Director at qmul.ac.uk; Visiting Research Fellow at bnu.ac.uk; SpongeBob fan; I also like coffee gimme coffee 😬

Higher Education | Degree Apprenticeships | Software Engineering | AI Ethics | LLMs

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Cloudflare down 😬
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November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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#DigiTechFest25 was awesome 🎉

Huge thanks to our guest speakers and those apprentices who had their work showcased 👏
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Today is #DigiTechFest25 at @qmul.bsky.social for our Digital and Technology Solutions degree apprentices.

On the agenda:

- Guest speakers and Q&As
- Apprentice video showcase
- Competition Awards

First time we're running this, and I am super excited for it!

#degreeapprenticeships
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November 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Come on Copilot, I've got slop to generate! #GenAI
Graph showing Microsoft Copilot outages reported in the last 24 hours. A spike in 200+ reports in the last hour (4-5pm)
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Quick sound check on this slide please.

Is it loud enough?

#academicSky
PowerPoint slide with “Capture. The. Outputs.” in huge 100pt+ font
October 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Feeling spicy over on LinkedIn 👀

Gotta love the pseudo-educator AI hypester grift

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LinkedIn comment by Jon Jackson: By opening with deliberate, fallacious engagement bait like "there's no assignment, paper, or project that Al can't do better, faster, and with zero effort", you got me to engage. Congratulations 👍 You have also tanked your own reputation in front of those that actually know what they're talking about. Congratulations 👍
October 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Passive aggressive possibly-human-maybe-a-bot support agent.

Air quotes… “your query” 😝
John has joined the chat Hello, I hope you are doing splendid today, I am here to assist you with "your query". End this chat
October 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Spice up your Entity Relationship Diagrams with GenAI 👌

The bizarre typos are delicious and I particularly like the psychopathic relationship cardinalities.

Also, customers aren’t people, ok? #GenAI says so.

I’m going to have so much fun with this and my students 🤓

#SoftwareEngineering #AI
I don’t know what to say other than it’s a really messed up entity relationship diagram that’s wrong wrong wrong
September 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Generative AI reducing inequalities in some contexts, widening inequalities in others.

via @economist.com

#GenAI
Pulling up the ladder Impact of generative Al on the gap between high- and low-performing workers Source: The Economist Peng et al. (2023) Coding efficiency Inequality reduced Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2023) Customer chat Inequality reduced Noy and Zhang (2023) Writing quality Inequality reduced Dell'Acqua et al. (2023) Product design Inequality reduced Chen and Chan (2023) Ad effectiveness Inequality reduced Choi, Monahan and Schwarz (2023) Legal analysis Inequality reduced Otis et al. (2023) Profits and revenue Inequality increased Roldan-Mones (2024) Debating points Inequality increased Toner-Rodgers (2024) Material discovery Inequality increased Kim et al. (2024) Investment decisions Inequality increased
September 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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ChatGPT faired a bit better but dropped some of the text
September 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Thanks Copilot. Super useful.

#GenAI
Screenshot of chat with Microsoft Copilot. Prompt: "upscale this image please" (attachment is a black and white diagram related to business environmental factors, purely made up of text and boxes) Response shows an AI-rendered image of a woman, brown hair, in her 20s or 30s
September 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Hello from me a floofy kitty cat (yesterday evening) 👋
Selfie with fluffy white/cream cat staring into the camera up close and Jon in the background
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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“AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?” on the @economist.com

Gift link 👇

economist.com/business/202...

#GenAI
Graph: Title: Giving up the search Worldwide internet search traffic, June 2024=100 Shows a decline across various categories of web search into 2025
July 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Very weird answer to the question: “Will the teachers be able to see what the students are doing?”

#genAI #AIEd
Will the teachers be able to see what the students are doing? Sikkut: We might have to launch it first just with basics. But the idea is that we’ll have two apps, a teacher’s assistant and a student’s one, so teachers get feedback or recommendations on how to guide the particular student better. The idea is to make learning more personalized for better learning outcomes.
July 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Thoughts are being thunked and words are being writ ✏️

The Role of Generative Al in Education: Questions, Reflections, and Provocations

Coming soon (hopefully) somewhere (probably)

#academicSky #GenAI #AIEd
A photo of a laptop screen with Microsoft word buttons visible at the top with a title on the page: The Role of Generative Al in Education: Questions, Reflections, and Provocations Jonathan Jackson
June 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Weekend fiction by J. G. Ballard ❤️

The Crystal World
An open book being held, with a conservatory and garden above it in the blurred background. Chapter title of open page reads: CHAPTER FIVE THE CRYSTALLIZED FOREST
June 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Full poster (image)
Poster "Who's Doing the Thinking Here?" A Pedagogy-First Approach to Integrating Large Language Models in Higher Education
June 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Screenshot of the virtual poster gallery from the QMUL festival of education 2025
June 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Poster boy (of sorts)

#AcademicSky
Jon standing in front of his poster at the QMUL festival of education in London. Poster title is:"Who's Doing the Thinking Here?" A Pedagogy-First Approach to Integrating Large Language Models in Higher Education
June 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Excited to be attending this conference today at @qmul.ac.uk:

Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier

Looking forward to @katecrawford.bsky.social’s keynote.

#PhilAI #AIEthics

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Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier
May 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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hi
May 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Sunshine! ☀️

It’s beautiful here in Oxfordshire. What’s it like where you are in the world?
Selfie of Jon with headphones. Outside with greenery and trees in the background and a bright blue sky with some small wisps of white cloud. Sun is at top left of photo.
May 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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It was a pleasure to present my short paper at IEEE #EDUCON last week, hosted at @qmul.ac.uk

"Who's Doing the Thinking Here?": A Pedagogy-First Approach to Integrating LLMs in Higher Education

PDF of slides available on LinkedIn 👇

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It was a pleasure to present my short paper at lEEE EDUCON last week, hosted at Queen Mary University of London. You can take a peek at my slides below •e "Who's Doing the Thinking Here?": A Pedagogy-First Approach to Integrating LLMs in Higher Education Thanks to Nathalie Al Kakoun, PhD for chairing the session: Generative Al in learning and educational settings. Kudos to Usman Naeem and all the team who worked tirelessly to make the conference a success.
April 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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A collection of blog posts 👌
1 This chapter is based on an essay originally published on my Substack newsletter, Elevate with Addy Osmani, "The 70% Problem: Hard Truths about AI-Assisted Coding," December 4, 2024. 1 This chapter is based on two essays I first published on my Substack newsletter, Elevate with Addy Osmani: "Beyond the 70%: Maximizing the Human 30% of AI-Assisted Coding," first published March 13, 2025, and "Future-Proofing Your Software Engineering Career," first published December 23, 2024.
April 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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“These four interaction styles were represented at similar rates (each between 23% and 29% of conversations), showing the range of uses students have for AI.”

Surprisingly balanced
Diagram showing 4 segments Top row headings: Problem solving / Output creation Left column headings: Direct / Collaborative Caption: Our taxonomy for student-AI conversations, along with sample conversation topics based on those surfaced by Clio. Main text beneath image: These four interaction styles were represented at similar rates (each between 23% and 29% of conversations), showing the range of uses students have for AI.
April 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM