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AI Learning, Keeping It Human
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The right question, asked in the wrong room
Four years in, higher education’s technology leaders have made “where does AI actually add value” their top priority. It’s the right question.…
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Who gets to say what done looks like
Two districts bought AI with almost nothing to go on, a state wrote rules, and a company wrote contracts. Underneath all of…
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Teaching the question
A two-year AI tutoring trial found students rarely messaged for help, and mostly sent bare answers when they did. Decades-old research on…
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Why didn’t the students ask for help?
A two-year trial in Tennessee found only small gains from an AI tutor, and a clear reason why: students rarely asked it…
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750 papers would have been wrongly flagged as AI-written
Detection is being switched off across higher education, and the reason matters more than the news does. The tools were quietly teaching…
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Give them the problem, not the method
A meta-analysis of 53 studies says people learn more when you give them the problem before the method. The same evidence says…
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What AI does to beginners, and what the workplace studies never measured
Two large studies show AI helps beginners most. One careful study shows the help does not become skill. I had read the…
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The sentence that costs the least
Every publisher now asks you to declare AI use. The research says declaring it will cost you trust. Both things are true,…
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Everyone’s favourite AI study asked us not to say the thing everyone says
For anyone who has been sent the “AI makes you dumber” study this month and had a feeling something was missing from…