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Connecticut College is thrilled to announce the inaugural AI and the Liberal Arts Symposium from October 17-19, 2025. This symposium, featuring keynote speaker Lance Eaton, a distinguished writer, educator, and consultant with over 20 years of experience in higher education and a leading voice in AI instruction, will convene thought leaders, educators, and researchers to explore both the developing role and the inherent challenges of artificial intelligence in undergraduate liberal arts education. Together, we aim to shape the future of teaching and learning by fostering innovation, collaboration, and the ethical integration of AI technologies, while also critically examining the associated…
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Jessica Smith LINK: When AI Erased My Disability Excerpt: I love AI. It’s a powerful tool with incredible potential to revolutionize the way we communicate, create, and connect. From improving accessibility for people with disabilities, to helping businesses work smarter, to unlocking new forms of creativity, AI is reshaping what’s possible across every industry. Recently, however, when I experimented with asking AI to generate images of me, I was in for a rude awakening. AI could generate a polished, professional look of me, or even transport me to a sunny vacation. But there was one glaring omission—the AI gave me…
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TL;DR: We’re assembling voices for an edited volume on generative AI in art & design education! Share this with colleagues who are experimenting with AI in their creative classrooms. Abstracts due July 15, 2025. CFP here, https://drive.google.com/…/1tgbZnYP1RzHbsh5tzj…/view… The Long Part: I’m writing to ask for your assistance in sharing an opportunity with colleagues in your department or institution who might be interested in contributing to an upcoming edited volume. Dr. Mary Frances Zawadzki (University of Mississippi) and I are developing an edited volume titled “The Hydra: The Many Approaches to Generative AI in the Art and Design Classroom.” This collection…
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From Lance Eaton: Here’s one of my recent talks on #GenAI for #Assessment in #HigherEd Ctrl+Alt+Assess: Rebooting Learning for the GenAI Era
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Nicholas Carr LINK: The Myth of Automated Learning Excerpt: Among the general public, generative AI’s most enthusiastic early adopters have been students. Surveys conducted a year ago revealed that nearly 90 percent of college students and more than 50 percent of high-schoolers were regularly using chatbots for schoolwork. Those numbers are certainly higher now. AI may be the most rapidly adopted educational tool since the pencil. Because text-generating bots like ChatGPT offer an easy way to cheat on papers and other assignments, students’ embrace of the technology has stirred uneasiness, and sometimes despair, among educators. Teachers and pupils now find…
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Shoumik Saha / Soheil Feizi LINK: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15666 AbstractThe growing use of large language mod-els (LLMs) for text generation has led towidespread concerns about AI-generated con-tent detection. However, an overlooked chal-lenge is AI-polished text, where human-writtencontent undergoes subtle refinements using AItools. This raises a critical question: shouldminimally polished text be classified as AI-generated? Such classification can lead tofalse plagiarism accusations and misleadingclaims about AI prevalence in online content.In this study, we systematically evaluate twelvestate-of-the-art AI-text detectors using our AI-Polished-Text Evaluation (APT-Eval) dataset,which contains 14.7K samples refined at vary-ing AI-involvement levels. Our findings revealthat detectors frequently flag even minimallypolished text as AI-generated,…
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We’re continuing to share our work openly, this time the Core Values for AI Literacy for our projects with the Responsible Innovation Centre for Public Media Futures, hosted by the BBC. These will help us organise our gap analysis, framework, and recommendations.Core Values for AI Literacy: Embedding Ethics for Audiences aged 14–19 https://blog.weareopen.coop/core-values-for-ai-literacy-0dfb0ce5145f TL;DR: given the context of our work, we took the seven Public Service Media values and applied them to AI Literacy, coming up with:
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Jarek Janio Ph.D. Psychology Today [Excerpt] I recently received an email from a community college professor in California. They’d heard I advocate for behaviorism as the foundation for teaching and learning. Their question was simple and sharp: “If we define learning as behavior, what’s the point? Once you identify the expected behavior, ChatGPT is going to replicate it. So what can faculty do that ChatGPT can’t?” It’s a fair challenge and it gets to the heart of why behaviorism is more relevant than ever. Behaviorism Isn’t Just About Output. It’s About Conditions Let’s be clear: ChatGPT can generate outputs. It…
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LINK: https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/collections/continuing-experiments/cfp-continuing-experiments/ In August 2023, WAC Clearinghouse published our co-edited collection TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies (Eds. Vee, Laquintano, Schnitzler),a collection of early experiments in pedagogy with generative text technology, including but not limited to AI. The fully open access and peer-reviewed collection features 34 undergraduate-level assignments to support students’ AI literacy, rhetorical and ethical engagements, creative exploration, and professional writing text generation technology, along with an Introduction to guide instructors’ understanding and their selection of what to emphasize in their courses. TextGenEd enables teachers to integrate text generation technologies into their courses and respond to this crucial moment. In the spirit of those pedagogical experimentations…
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Kathryn Locke Associate Researcher in Digital Disability, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University Tama Leaver Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University The Conversation: AI is now used for audio description. But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision Excerpt: Since the recent explosion of widely available generative artificial intelligence (AI), it now seems that a new AI tool emerges every week. With varying success, AI offers solutions for productivity, creativity, research, and also accessibility: making products, services and other content more usable for people with disability. The award-winning 2024 Super Bowl ad for Google Pixel…
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NYT LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/chatgpt-college-professors.html “Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs.” And a response by Marc Watkins: The Stories (and Students) Forgotten in the AI Panic
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This study evaluates the impact of a program leveraging large language models for virtual tutoring in secondary education in Nigeria. Using a randomized controlled trial, the program deployed Microsoft Copilot (powered by GPT-4) to support first-year senior secondary students in English language learning over six weeks. The intervention demonstrated a significant improvement of 0.31 standard deviation on an assessment that included English topics aligned with the Nigerian curriculum, knowledge of artificial intelligence and digital skills. The effect on English, the main outcome of interest, was of 0.23 standard deviations. Cost-effectiveness analysis revealed substantial learning gains, equating to 1.5 to 2…
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LINK HERE Speaker(s): Kate Glazko, University of Washington; Jun Cha, Universitiy of Wisconsin; and Sev Huffman, Gallaudet University & University of WashingtonDate: Jun 23, 2025Grant: AiiCE Researchers present findings on the the benefits, trades offs and impacts of using Generative AI for accessibility by members of the Deaf/HoH communities and Neurodivergent individuals. In the first, Glazko & Cha, et. al., discuss how neurodivergent people, often left out by existing accessibility technologies, develop their own ways of navigating normative expectations. GAI offers new opportunities for access, but it is important to understand how neurodivergent “power users”—successful early adopters—engage with it and…
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Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda New blog post: https://medium.com/@vpineda_34508/ai-is-the-new-curb-cut-why-treating-artificial-intelligence-as-assistive-technology-unleashes-3a54f1020046 Excerpt: Generative models, computer vision, and voice agents are often framed as sci‑fi perks for the privileged. But look closer and you’ll see a very different story: AI is quickly becoming the next generation of wheelchairs, screen readers, and captioners — tools that extend human capability rather than replace it. When we design, regulate, and deploy AI first as assistive technology, we spark the same curb‑cut effect that made sidewalk ramps indispensable for everyone.(AP News) A policy shift in real time Washington is starting to recognize this. Last year the U.S. Access…
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EDUCAUSE Annual Conference The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference connects the best thinkers in higher education technology. This is THE event where professionals and technology providers from around the world gather to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges. It’s the largest gathering of your peers…people you can relate to, learn from, and stay connected to throughout the year. Registration Open
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LINK: https://link.springer.com/collections/hchbjiaife This special issue will explore the philosophical dimensions of AI’s impact on education and learning, broadly understood. We welcome inquiries into how AI alters traditional conceptions of epistemic agency, the conditions of knowledge, and the distribution of cognitive labor. We also invite reflection on the interplay between epistemology and cognition: how shifts in learning processes, reasoning strategies, and skill development in AI-mediated environments challenge or enrich our philosophical understandings of education. Through diverse theoretical approaches, we aim to illuminate both the risks and the transformative potentials AI brings to knowledge, teaching, and learning. Important Dates: – 500-word abstract/proposal…
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Virtual Forum / University of South Florida Thursday, June 5 | 2 p.m. ET LINK: https://www.chronicle.com/events/virtual/new-academic-programs-for-an-ai-driven-work-force?sra=true Artificial intelligence is reshaping the world as we know it. In recent years, AI tools have become more accessible and have changed the way we complete tasks like writing and designing content, managing projects, and even learning. However, many wonder how AI fits into higher education. Today’s college students will enter a job market that’s transformed by AI, making AI literacy an essential skill for the future work force. Many institutions are responding to the growing presence of AI and its rapidly expanding capabilities…
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Join me for the last Tuesday Talk of the semester! I’ll be hosting ITC’s first Ask Me Anything session and we are chatting about AI. Link here.
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LINK: https://www.ncme.org/event/special-conferences/aime-conference Call for Proposals for the upcoming National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)-supported Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con), which will take place October 27–29, 2025, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Conference Theme: Innovation and Evidence: Shaping the Future of AI in Educational Measurement Key Details: Please submit your proposals! Authors have the option of submitting structured abstracts or 6-page papers for consideration for publication in the AIME-Con proceedings, which will be generously hosted by ACL Anthology. We welcome proposals on a wide range of topics including:
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Dear Colleagues, You’re warmly invited to this year’s Faculty Institute at the University of Maine at Augusta (with virtual Zoom access). No cost. The AI in Education community has greatly enriched our professional growth, and now we’re eager to give back. Here is the event website: https://uma.edu/fi2025 Event Details: Why Attend? The 2025 UMA Faculty Institute organizing committee invites presentations from faculty and staff across all disciplines and campuses within the University of Maine System and from higher education colleagues nationwide. The Institute aims to explore the intersection of: We’ve included a chance to engage with leading voices in the…
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