New Publication
People, places and pasta or Uncreative explorations as collective intelligence
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our paper was published online
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proud to see my student’s
Argyro-Anastasia Antonaki
(The American College of Greece) work featured in Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection by the University of Leeds
Kudos to the student editors!
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metaphors like stochastic parrots, high heels, icebergs, or drunk interns don’t just describe AI, they shape how we understand it.
My colleagues and I are preparing a scoping review on such metaphors across scholarly and public discourse. Stay tuned

our article “Between a Bot and a Hard Place: Student Engagement, Technology Anxiety, and ChatGPT Trust in Higher Education” has been accepted for publication in TechTrends (Springer Nature, Association for Educational Communications & Technology). Co-authored with A. Klidas and S. Karakitsou

Excited that our paper 'A Glimpse into the Unsettled Relation: Visual Metaphors and Critical Visual Literacy as Pathways to GenAI Literacy in Online Education' has been accepted for #EDEN2025 conference in Bologna! #ACG Maria Avgerinou. Sissy Karakitsou Kostas Leftheriotis Anastasia Logotheti

Exploring ways to make learning more accessible: I created a short podcast introducing the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory using NotebookLM. Early experiment, great student response so far! Feedback welcome: youtu.be/76ph4kuIYUE
#AIEd #edtech #memory #cognitivepsychology #highereducation

Honored to contribute 3 chapters to APA STP’s Teaching Tips compendium: Engaging students with think-pair-share and real-time polling, Informal midterm student feedback: A guide for instructors, Beyond the curriculum-Instructor characteristics, student engagement & academic performance

#CIWRVURC2025

we’re extending the submission deadline for our special issue, “Pixels, Bots, and Algorithms: Exploring the Intersection of AI and Visual Literacy,” in the Q1 Journal of Visual Literacy: Feb 22. Guest Editors: I. Karayianni & K. Leftheriotis. Editor-in-Chief: M. Avgerinou

A study (Deans et al., 2024) tested AI’s ability to complete a graduate course—and it passed with a 99.36% final grade. ChatGPT wrote essays, aced quizzes, and engaged in discussions undetected.
AI is reshaping education, challenging originality and integrity. The question is how fast HE can adapt.

DeepSeek is a really good model, but it is not generally a better model than o1 or Claude.

But since it is both free and getting a ton of attention, I think a lot of people who were using free “mini” models are suddenly being exposed to what a early 2025 reasoner AI can do & are surprised.

Researchers paid $9 billion over 5 years for their findings to be freely accessible.

This is based on a study of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551