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Bloggers, newsletters, and podcasts from people in the field
Tuesday, September 22
The Agentic Turn: A Recent Talk
Are we committing the same mistake with agentic AI that we committed with generative AI?
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Monday, September 21
Jev might be overhyped as a solo tool, but solo is not the point
I’ll have more to say about this later, but I do think Jev is going to have a non-trivial impact on how we use AI.
mikecaulfield.substack.comBeyond Silos: A state policy playbook for building integrated education-to-career systems
Today, Angela Jackson (the CEO of Future Forward Strategies), Mallory Dwinal-Palisch (the President of Craft Education, a WGU company and nonprofit data platform that enables apprenticeship degrees), Danny Curtis, and I published a series of six papers
michaelbhorn.substack.comWhat Does Defiance Taste Like?
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
Sunday, September 20
What Happens When Grading Costs Almost Nothing?
Ultra Cheap Machine Intelligence Arrives
marcwatkins.substack.com
Saturday, September 19
The “Experts Excel and Novices Don’t” critique gets the AI educational situation backwards
We want technologies in classrooms that reward knowing things, it’s good actually
mikecaulfield.substack.comThinking of My Obituary
I'm getting old enough now that thinking about what I want my obituary to say is not some vague hypothetical but instead is something visible on the horizon. So asking myself what my obituary to say isn't just some exercise to orient and make my life better, as suggested in this article. And in any case, with most of…
halfanhour.blogspot.comHow well do you know the philosophy of education?
Plato to Dewey.
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Friday, September 18
Ironic How a Newsletter was My Early Gateway to Web Building
I’l dial back my mockery of the email newsletter being the new definition of a web site (not here), but the Wayback Web Machine that is in my head went to remembering how a big effort/motivation the first year I set up a web server (what do I win for it being in 1993?) was […]
cogdogblog.comThe Overhang
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
oneusefulthing.orgAI and What It Portends for Young Learners and College Students
Today’s general update is chock full of pieces about AI: from AI bans in large school districts to college leaders grappling with what the right posture on AI should be—and the implications for learning, career opportunities and more.
michaelbhorn.substack.com
Wednesday, September 16
Survey Results
Here's the question I asked and the responses: What work would you think is most useful and valuable for me to do over the coming months? All text would be 100% human-authored unless otherwise specified A CList MOOC - 12 AI for learning - 25 CList - 9 Critical Literacies - 22 Logical Fallacies upgrade - 15 Server side…
halfanhour.blogspot.comYour Kids Can Learn 10x Less in 10x Less Time!
Notes from a fifth grade classroom.
danmeyer.substack.comStamping the Moment in Time: Welcome Back
In our season opener of Class Disrupted, Diane Tavenner and I reflected on our journey cohosting the podcast and take stock of the evolving challenges and opportunities in education.
michaelbhorn.substack.com463. Teaching and Generative AI
Generative AI has disrupted familiar approaches to teaching and assessment, but also created new opportunities to reconsider what, and how, we want students to learn. In this episode, Travis Thurston and Beth Buyserie join us to discuss ways of using AI productively in our classrooms by shifting the focus of learning…
teaforteaching.com
Tuesday, September 15
Hold me back
It seems that periodically we get a story about how AI vendors are fearful about the awesome, apocalyptic power of their tech, and for God’s sake, won’t someone stop them. There’s been a recent round of this from Anthropic. I’ve wondered what the intent behind these stories was, since caring about harm or morality has…
blog.edtechie.netThe Tapestry and The Hustle
An essay about figuring things out...
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Monday, September 14
Why College Could Matter More than Ever in the AI Era
As students settle back on college campuses across the country, there’s a big question in the ether.
michaelbhorn.substack.comCaching Behavior
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
Sunday, September 13
Getting Back in the Range After Eight and change (months of daily photos in 2026)
The wheels sort of came off the daily photo bus, given the last report was end of April. I mean photos were taken, but somewhere I got off track catching up to the editing, titling, tagging, publishing as May, June, July, and August rolled over. The hole gets deeper the more you spend time staring […]
cogdogblog.comWhen AI Developers Regulate Themselves
Safety & AI Regulation Should Include Present Harms, Not Just Future Ones
marcwatkins.substack.com
Saturday, September 12
Click Here to Comply
Perhaps you’ve read Ben Riley’s exposé on AlphaSchool’s “boot camp” -- along with his follow-up in which the school provides even more creepy details on the bizarre eight-week training program that high school students enrolled in the private school must
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.comPrompts can be poetic
It’s worth thinking about an LLM not as something that writes, but something you write into.
mikecaulfield.substack.comCan you ace education research and reform?
What does the research say?
michaelbhorn.substack.com
Thursday, September 10
Agents are portable but judgments are not
This is a bigger problem than people realize
mikecaulfield.substack.comCracking Style
Getting LLMs to understand film style has been exhausting, but I’m getting closer
mikecaulfield.substack.comMIT’s Report on AI in Teaching and Learning
Cross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (better known as MIT) released a report last month sharing the findings and recommendations of their Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research. I’ve read a lot of university reports on AI over the last…
derekbruff.org
Wednesday, September 9
Life beyond ed tech
As part of the DS106 Radio Summer Camp, I did a session with Clint Lalonde on life after ed tech. I’ve been retired for two years and Clint is heading for retirement. We’ve both been in open and ed tech fro a while so thought it would be fun to discuss things outside of that life, and accompany these with record…
blog.edtechie.netHigher Ed Needs to Decide What It Is
It’s hard to believe Jeff Selingo and I are back for our 10th season of Future U., which had some 65,000 unique listeners last season.
michaelbhorn.substack.comHow to Inoculate Yourself Against Edtech Psychosis
It’s fifth grade for me this year.
danmeyer.substack.com462. Classroom Mindscapes
Neurodivergent students bring varied strengths, needs, and ways of thinking to our classrooms. In this episode, Sarah Silverman joins us to discuss teaching strategies that reduce access friction, increase tolerance for error, and create more inclusive learning experiences for everyone. Sarah is an educator and…
teaforteaching.com
Tuesday, September 8
60000 Vanity Points
Hah! I had forgotten one of my blog obsessions, pursuit started in 2012 to track down and obliterate a never substantiated claim of “research showing people process visual information 60000 times faster than text.” It’s funny how I just circled back, I spotted in Mastodon a reference to Maginalia Search. An open…
cogdogblog.comStop Whatever You Are Doing and Record those Family Voices
Not that anybody is knocking on my door asking for life advice, but here it is dispensed anyhow. Do yourself a future favor, and record by any means possible the people who carry your family stories. I could not be more thankful for the voices I have digitally preserved, my grandmother, my mom. Last week […]
cogdogblog.com“…let’s not let this turn into an inferno.”
Part 2 of an interview with Daryl Privott & Joseph Casey Cosgriff
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Monday, September 7
At the intersection of storytelling, aging, and higher education
Last week we hosted a great conversation on the Future Trends Forum. The topic was the intersection of storytelling, aging, and higher education. Today I’d like to share the recording of that session, along with the resources which participants contributed, … Continue reading →
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Sunday, September 6
AI as “fuzzy disintermediation”: some patterns and risks
Some thoughts I haven’t seen elsewhere
mikecaulfield.substack.comComputer Using AI is Solved
Two years ago I wrote an article arguing that Anthropic’s “Computer Use” – then in beta testing – would be the next ChatGPT moment for education. At the time, computer using agents (CUAs) were not common, and Anthropic’s version was strictly limited to research, running only inside a virtual computer. It had…
leonfurze.com
Saturday, September 5
Move Slow, Remake Things
In the prologue to their book Tinkering Toward Utopia, historians David Tyack and Larry Cuban highlight the tensions in how Americans think about schooling: we have, almost since the nation’s outset, believed in the transformative power of education; and yet, despite the importance we grant to education and
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.comCan you order these milestones in higher education access?
The Morrill Act to need-blind admissions.
michaelbhorn.substack.com
Friday, September 4
Image Scoping Machines
In the “As Much as I Loathe AI I Cannot Escape It” department, I’ve been accumulating some stray experiences with technologies that analyze, interpret information from photos, likely somewhere inside lurks what we lump as AI. And indeed, it’s useful. And interesting. Here’s a buffet of tidbit experiences and no grand…
cogdogblog.com
Thursday, September 3
Yes, Google’s AI Overview (AIO) still hallucinates quite a bit
And AI Mode doesn’t and we should teach students that
mikecaulfield.substack.com
Wednesday, September 2
Rogue AI: Should We Be Worried?
Three AI labs have admitted their models broke into other people’s systems. An Australian gym-goer was bumped off a waitlist by somebody else’s AI assistant. A government lost 2,500 personnel records to a swarm of open-source agents. None of it is a rogue AI — and that is exactly why it should worry you.
leonfurze.comClass Action Coffee
I am on a roll with an exciting new income stream – payouts from class action law suits! The cash has been flowing in and I’m rolling in settlement moohlah. Milking the legal system and then some! The Big One: Blue Cross Blue Shield Subscribers Settlement My email trail indicates I heard about this lawsuit […]
cogdogblog.comThe Value of Live in a World of Abundant AI
In a piece I published a few months back titled “Abundance, Scarcity, and the Future of Work in an AI World,” I made the argument that there’s unlikely to ever be a world of unlimited abundance.
michaelbhorn.substack.comBooks Fall Apart
Between Antonella and I we have a pretty decent book collection. Like with vinyl, VHS tapes, laserdiscs, and DVDs, I also have a book buying problem. I love my physical media. While at the beach this summer reading Philip K. … Continue reading →
bavatuesdays.com461. Postdocs
On past episodes of this podcast, we’ve discussed several stages of the career path for academics including the transition from grad school to faculty and decisions to move to administrative positions. In this episode, Alark Joshi and Victoria Hallinan join us to discuss the role that a postdoc may play in an…
teaforteaching.com
Tuesday, September 1
Neither the restaurants using AI slop photos nor the people critiquing them care about pictures
At enough intensity, AI snobs and AI slobs are just two sides of the same coin
mikecaulfield.substack.com“It’s not a tool. It’s a technology.”
Part 1 of an interview with Daryl Privott & Joseph Casey Cosgriff
aiedusimplified.substack.com
Monday, August 31
Controlling Hardware with Generative Artificial Intelligence
Since 2024, the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT and Claude to proficiently code has emerged as a key driver of their evolution. Their ability to integrate with both software and physical devices presents opportunities for innovative applications. This convergence of AI with everyday technology could…
leonfurze.com“Just reason it out”: A simple follow-up to get the LLM to fall back on semantic capabilities vs. search?
Most times we are begging the LLM to ground in search, but sometimes we need the opposite.
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