Underlining what matters in higher ed and ed tech: news, vendor updates, and commentary from across the field, in one place.https://theunderline.netlify.app/voices/http://www.downes.ca/post/79902/rdhttp://www.downes.ca/post/79902/rdDATAMETA LAB, TopSciNet, Oct 12, 2026 This looks like a really useful set of tools: "Free online tools with no signup: line counter, image resizer, compressor, PDF converter, QR generator, percentage calculator and more. Everything runs in your browser, so your files never leave your device." What's funny is that I…Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:37:00 GMTVoiceshttp://www.downes.ca/post/79907/rdhttp://www.downes.ca/post/79907/rdYaretzy Gabriela Calamaco Munguia, unitwin-unoe, Oct 12, 2026 This post from a primary school teacher and Master's student from the Benemérita Escuela Normal de Coahuila (BENC) in Mexico recounts her experience attending the UNESCO's Digital Learning Week 2026 in France. "It was not a feeling of smallness as a synonym…Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:37:00 GMTVoiceshttp://www.downes.ca/post/79912/rdhttp://www.downes.ca/post/79912/rdMichał "rysiek" Woźniak, Songs on the Security of Networks, Oct 12, 2026 This article is much too long and has a but of a tone, but it is chock full of evidence to back up what it says, and what it says is important: the media itself is responsible for the near total control of the tech industry over its…Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:37:00 GMTVoiceshttp://www.downes.ca/post/79913/rdhttp://www.downes.ca/post/79913/rdOle Bjørn Rekdal, Social Studies of Science, Oct 12, 2026 Via a Mastodon post from Alfie Kohn posted today I encountered this great 2014 article on how urban legends are perpetuated in academic writing. The article looks at the chain of commentary around the idea that spinach is a great source of iron (it isn't). You…Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:37:00 GMTVoiceshttp://www.downes.ca/post/79914/rdhttp://www.downes.ca/post/79914/rdClaudio Cinà, Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs, Oct 12, 2026 "Many who succeed in academia become reliant on the recognition of its gatekeepers - tenure committees, journal editors, prize juries—until that recognition becomes the currency of existence." See also: qualifications and brain…Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:37:00 GMTVoiceshttp://www.downes.ca/post/79915/rdhttp://www.downes.ca/post/79915/rdBrad Woods, Brad Woods Digital Garden, Oct 12, 2026 The is the approach I'm trying to take with CList: "With the capabilities of natural language processors, we can create a new approach to teaching UIs. User-driven UI. Instead of pushing features onto the user, the user pulls them in when needed. The software always…Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:37:00 GMTVoiceshttps://marcwatkins.substack.com/p/discernment-in-the-age-of-agentshttps://marcwatkins.substack.com/p/discernment-in-the-age-of-agentsCalls to pace the frontier and slow AI development for safety miss the very real changes ubiquitous AI brings to our professional and personal lives.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:36:38 GMTMarc WatkinsVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/dont-throw-away-your-rationaleshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/dont-throw-away-your-rationalesOr how I built 46,000 description cards that still reflect my months-long journeySat, 10 Oct 2026 20:41:56 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/can-you-ace-schools-and-systemshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/can-you-ace-schools-and-systemsCharters, districts, and one-room schoolhouses.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:37:55 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/in-the-world-of-llms-the-descriptionhttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/in-the-world-of-llms-the-descriptionThe Memex has arrived, for anyone with the sense to see it.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:08:31 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://teachinginhighered.com/2026/10/09/how-much-is-my-network-like-me-a-mapping-activity/https://teachinginhighered.com/2026/10/09/how-much-is-my-network-like-me-a-mapping-activity/In week one of Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Mastery workshop, I mapped my network and asked how much it looks like me. The answer: not much, and that’s what enriches my sensemaking. I also reflect on collaboration versus cooperation, and what a recent reorganization at work has taught me about both.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:28:03 GMTBonni StachowiakVoiceshttps://derekbruff.org/2026/10/09/centering-process-over-product/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=centering-process-over-producthttps://derekbruff.org/2026/10/09/centering-process-over-product/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=centering-process-over-productThis week included a quick trip to New York City to share a few thoughts on AI-aware teaching with the editors at W. W. Norton. During their annual editors retreat, they spent some time thinking about AI, how its changing higher education, and what that means for a textbook publisher …Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:12:54 GMTDerek BruffVoiceshttps://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-people-in-your-neighborhood/https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-people-in-your-neighborhood/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:33:00 GMTAudrey WattersVoiceshttps://teachinginhighered.com/2026/10/08/beginning-again-making-time-for-sensemaking/https://teachinginhighered.com/2026/10/08/beginning-again-making-time-for-sensemaking/I’m returning to Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Mastery workshop. Here’s how I’m making time for sensemaking, plus PKM resources to get you started.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:38:31 GMTBonni StachowiakVoiceshttps://leonfurze.com/2026/10/08/beyond-chatbots-convenient-costume/https://leonfurze.com/2026/10/08/beyond-chatbots-convenient-costume/The chatbot interface barely scratches the surface of what AI can do. It is also being used to hide genuinely harmful and even criminal activities.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:15 GMTLeon FurzeVoiceshttps://www.downes.ca/presentation/606https://www.downes.ca/presentation/606Slides and video of my session at FediForum - thanks Mark for being the only one to join me (we're not the cool kids :p ) which introduces CList and offers an alternative way to look at (and build) the open social web, The usual live demo glitches, but I think we made the point. I didn't actually show the slides, just…Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:43:00 GMTVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/building-the-post-industrial-corehttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/building-the-post-industrial-coreMany people talk about transforming “factory-model schools” to “learner-centered” models.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:11:08 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://danmeyer.substack.com/p/when-teachers-answer-their-own-questionshttps://danmeyer.substack.com/p/when-teachers-answer-their-own-questionsAnd what to do instead.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:24:06 GMTDan MeyerVoiceshttps://joshbrake.substack.com/p/dont-make-muse-do-ithttps://joshbrake.substack.com/p/dont-make-muse-do-itNot because of what it will do to Muse, but because of what it will do to youWed, 07 Oct 2026 10:30:42 GMTJosh BrakeVoiceshttps://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-house-that-turnitin-built/https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-house-that-turnitin-built/I gave this talk this afternoon at Concordia University, as part of the SkepTech series questioning education technology. Today's bird, which does not appear anywhere in the talk, is the house sparrow, which along with the pigeon is one of the most widely distributed wild birds, thanks inTue, 06 Oct 2026 22:00:58 GMTAudrey WattersVoiceshttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/new-publication-ai-oer-case-studieshttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/new-publication-ai-oer-case-studiesAnd now, a word from some authors...Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:31:21 GMTLance EatonVoiceshttps://cogdogblog.com/2026/10/ninth-months-daily-photos/https://cogdogblog.com/2026/10/ninth-months-daily-photos/Indeed with a lack of real words to rhyme with ninth, needing to keep the patterns for this year’s posts, I resorted to a chap who just cheerfully makes stuff up to define “grinth” as “the peculiar little feeling of having noticed something nobody else did.” Clever? More importantly after last month thrashing through…Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:14:00 GMTCogDog The BlogVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/priority-2-revise-requirements-tohttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/priority-2-revise-requirements-toTwo weeks ago, 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 papersMon, 05 Oct 2026 14:06:56 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/yes-ai-can-watch-a-dramatic-filmhttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/yes-ai-can-watch-a-dramatic-filmThe gap between what people think AI’s capabilities are and what they actually are continues to widen.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:06:09 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/how-well-do-you-know-the-history-f51https://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/how-well-do-you-know-the-history-f51The SAT, the ACT, and everything in between.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:35:44 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/present-company-excepted/https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/present-company-excepted/“Generative 'AI' is here to stay." We hear this a lot. But a reminder: this is not a statement of fact. It is an assertion, but it is merely speculation. The future is unwritten – much to the consternation of those who’d like veryFri, 02 Oct 2026 19:00:40 GMTAudrey WattersVoiceshttps://derekbruff.org/2026/10/02/scaling-ai-aware-teaching-beyond-the-individual-course-or-what-i-thought-about-that-mit-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scaling-ai-aware-teaching-beyond-the-individual-course-or-what-i-thought-about-that-mit-reporthttps://derekbruff.org/2026/10/02/scaling-ai-aware-teaching-beyond-the-individual-course-or-what-i-thought-about-that-mit-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scaling-ai-aware-teaching-beyond-the-individual-course-or-what-i-thought-about-that-mit-reportWhat does it take to help the entire faculty of a college or university learn and adopt new teaching practices? This is a question I’ve had to grapple with twice in my career. The first time was during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. I was serving as the director of …Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:08:41 GMTDerek BruffVoiceshttps://bryanalexander.org/horizon-scanning/american-views-of-higher-ed-decline-once-again/https://bryanalexander.org/horizon-scanning/american-views-of-higher-ed-decline-once-again/Quick post today, as I travel across several American cities: United States attitudes towards higher education soured yet again, according to a new Gallup poll. The main question asked this time was “How important is a college education today — … Continue reading →Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:28:56 GMTBryan AlexanderVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/more-campuses-new-models-can-universitieshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/more-campuses-new-models-can-universitiesWhile much of higher ed is retrenching and struggling, other schools are making big bets on having multiple locations.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:21:37 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-dot-and-the-swarmhttps://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-dot-and-the-swarmBenefitting from the Bitter LessonThu, 01 Oct 2026 10:54:12 GMTEthan MollickVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/fact-checking-a-film-by-having-thehttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/fact-checking-a-film-by-having-theMy fact-checking AI agent now can stream public domain films, make contact sheets, pair that with transcribed dialogue from the audio stream, and fact-check the film summary.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:46:22 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/how-to-say-thank-youhttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/how-to-say-thank-youA moment for all of you.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:39:42 GMTLance EatonVoiceshttps://blog.edtechie.net/books/sept-26-round-up/https://blog.edtechie.net/books/sept-26-round-up/Despite being retired, September still has a back-to-school feel about it. After an enjoyable (but hot) summer it was good to get back to my desk again (and to wear jumpers). Things I enjoyed this month: The massive facepalm of the republicans thinking they had a gotcha moment over Jack Smith; watching The Office; Fat…Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:09:47 GMTmwellerVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/could-alpha-school-disrupt-k12-educationhttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/could-alpha-school-disrupt-k12-educationThis is the second of two posts that Thomas Arnett of the Christensen Institute and I coauthored about Alpha School.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:11:31 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://danmeyer.substack.com/p/six-important-findings-from-the-aihttps://danmeyer.substack.com/p/six-important-findings-from-the-aiThis study is four years overdue.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:05:17 GMTDan MeyerVoiceshttps://bavatuesdays.com/hard-rain-falling/https://bavatuesdays.com/hard-rain-falling/Post by @jimgroom@social.ds106.us View on Mastodon I had a lot of emotions while I was helping to settle my daughter in for her first year of college in Michigan a couple of weeks ago. I couldn’t help but … Continue reading →Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:32:00 GMTReverendVoiceshttps://joshbrake.substack.com/p/use-ai-to-build-fireplaceshttps://joshbrake.substack.com/p/use-ai-to-build-fireplacesSome reflections on how AI is enabling me to make more engaging learning experiences for my students this semester.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:31:26 GMTJosh BrakeVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/yes-when-llms-dont-use-tools-theyhttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/yes-when-llms-dont-use-tools-theyAnd that’s important for nonobvious reasonsTue, 29 Sep 2026 06:13:45 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://bryanalexander.org/scenarios/health-care-nation-a-2026-update/https://bryanalexander.org/scenarios/health-care-nation-a-2026-update/Greetings from late September. I’m writing this from several different airplanes and airports, traveling back from the University of Alaska’s second AI Symposium. Aircraft wifi has been uneven, dropping in and out, and once tried to double charge me. Another … Continue reading →Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:31:19 GMTBryan AlexanderVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/priority-1-getting-a-view-and-settinghttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/priority-1-getting-a-view-and-settingA week ago, 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 papersMon, 28 Sep 2026 13:44:56 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/autumn/https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/autumn/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:31 GMTAudrey WattersVoiceshttps://bavatuesdays.com/victory-laps-all-the-way-down/https://bavatuesdays.com/victory-laps-all-the-way-down/I have yet to post about my talk and subsequent podcast interview with Jöran Muuß-Merholz at the end of June. It’s been quite a summer, and I kept waiting for the perfect time to blog, but there’s no perfect time. … Continue reading →Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:00:30 GMTReverendVoiceshttps://bavatuesdays.com/blue-3ds-xl-version-2/https://bavatuesdays.com/blue-3ds-xl-version-2/A post from the blaugust26 hootenany —now lost to the sands of bad search and rusty bookmarking skills— inspired me to re-visit my random desire to replace the Blue 3DS XL my kids used to play with. I already blogged … Continue reading →Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:44:57 GMTReverendVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/can-you-ace-the-ideas-that-changedhttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/can-you-ace-the-ideas-that-changedKindergarten.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:33:53 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/to-dismantle-democracy-you-subvert-public-schools/https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/to-dismantle-democracy-you-subvert-public-schools/For at least the past fifty years*, conservatives have made substantial efforts to dismantle public education, through a variety of policies, practices, and story-lines: budget cuts, vouchers, charter schools, anti-tax measures, anti-union initiatives, “free to choose” and “failing school” narratives. And of course,Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:45:59 GMTAudrey WattersVoiceshttps://bavatuesdays.com/couch-to-family-pictures-podcasts/https://bavatuesdays.com/couch-to-family-pictures-podcasts/I don’t know if you know this about me, but I am a content producer! So much so I can’t even keep up with it on this blog. It is serious. Michael Branson Smith and I are approaching our 80th … Continue reading →Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:36:03 GMTReverendVoiceshttps://blog.edtechie.net/writing/flow-vs-grind/https://blog.edtechie.net/writing/flow-vs-grind/No, this is not a comparison of dating sites, but rather a reflection on recent writing experience. I’ve published my second novel (I know, why haven’t mentioned this before?), and the writing of that came pretty easily. The characters led the plot and it flowed fairly quickly, in comparison with my first novel. I’ve…Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:16:13 GMTmwellerVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/if-you-dont-like-alpha-its-probablyhttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/if-you-dont-like-alpha-its-probablyThis is the first of two posts about Alpha School coauthored with Thomas Arnett of the Christensen Institute.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:19:05 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://bavatuesdays.com/the-incommunicable-past/https://bavatuesdays.com/the-incommunicable-past/I’m binding together a beat-up copy of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia. I read it my freshman year of college—something that hits differently now as Tess starts hers in the US—and it was part of a Modernist American literature class at … Continue reading →Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:04:14 GMTReverendVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/a-sample-jev-based-classroom-activityhttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/a-sample-jev-based-classroom-activityA step-by-step guide.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:24:47 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/the-agentic-turn-a-recent-talkhttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/the-agentic-turn-a-recent-talkAre we committing the same mistake with agentic AI that we committed with generative AI?Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:26:17 GMTLance EatonVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/jev-is-overhyped-as-a-solo-tool-buthttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/jev-is-overhyped-as-a-solo-tool-butI’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.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:30:03 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/beyond-silos-a-state-policy-playbookhttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/beyond-silos-a-state-policy-playbookToday, 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 papersMon, 21 Sep 2026 11:31:03 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/what-does-defiance-taste-like/https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/what-does-defiance-taste-like/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:00:47 GMTAudrey WattersVoiceshttps://marcwatkins.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-grading-costs-almosthttps://marcwatkins.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-grading-costs-almostUltra Cheap Machine Intelligence ArrivesSun, 20 Sep 2026 12:11:12 GMTMarc WatkinsVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/the-experts-excel-and-novices-donthttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/the-experts-excel-and-novices-dontWe want technologies in classrooms that reward knowing things, it’s good actuallySun, 20 Sep 2026 00:13:05 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/09/thinking-of-my-obituary.htmlhttps://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/09/thinking-of-my-obituary.htmlI'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…Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:39:05 GMTStephen DownesVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/how-well-do-you-know-the-philosophyhttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/how-well-do-you-know-the-philosophyPlato to Dewey.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:19:10 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/newsletter-web-gateway/https://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/newsletter-web-gateway/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 […]Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:05:44 GMTCogDog The BlogVoiceshttps://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-overhanghttps://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-overhangUsing your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agencyFri, 18 Sep 2026 17:54:32 GMTEthan MollickVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/ai-and-what-it-portends-for-younghttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/ai-and-what-it-portends-for-youngToday’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.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:37:52 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/09/survey-results.htmlhttps://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/09/survey-results.htmlHere'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…Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:03:32 GMTStephen DownesVoiceshttps://danmeyer.substack.com/p/your-kids-can-learn-10x-less-in-10xhttps://danmeyer.substack.com/p/your-kids-can-learn-10x-less-in-10xNotes from a fifth grade classroom.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:05:43 GMTDan MeyerVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/stamping-the-moment-in-time-welcomehttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/stamping-the-moment-in-time-welcomeIn 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.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:41:30 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://teaforteaching.com/463-teaching-and-generative-ai/https://teaforteaching.com/463-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…Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:00:09 GMTadminVoiceshttps://blog.edtechie.net/ai/hold-me-back/https://blog.edtechie.net/ai/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…Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:57:41 GMTmwellerVoiceshttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/the-tapestry-and-the-hustlehttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/the-tapestry-and-the-hustleAn essay about figuring things out...Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:30:47 GMTLance EatonVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/why-college-could-matter-more-thanhttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/why-college-could-matter-more-thanAs students settle back on college campuses across the country, there’s a big question in the ether.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:49:36 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/caching-behavior/https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/caching-behavior/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:26 GMTAudrey WattersVoiceshttps://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/ieight-months-daily-photos/https://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/ieight-months-daily-photos/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 […]Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:12:42 GMTCogDog The BlogVoiceshttps://marcwatkins.substack.com/p/when-ai-developers-regulate-themselveshttps://marcwatkins.substack.com/p/when-ai-developers-regulate-themselvesSafety & AI Regulation Should Include Present Harms, Not Just Future OnesSun, 13 Sep 2026 13:05:22 GMTMarc WatkinsVoiceshttps://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/click-here-to-comply/https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/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 mustSat, 12 Sep 2026 20:00:34 GMTAudrey WattersVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/prompts-can-be-poetichttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/prompts-can-be-poeticIt’s worth thinking about an LLM not as something that writes, but something you write into.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:20:21 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/can-you-ace-education-research-andhttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/can-you-ace-education-research-andWhat does the research say?Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:17:08 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/agents-are-portable-but-judgmentshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/agents-are-portable-but-judgmentsThis is a bigger problem than people realizeFri, 11 Sep 2026 05:56:54 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/cracking-stylehttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/cracking-styleGetting LLMs to understand film style has been exhausting, but I’m getting closerThu, 10 Sep 2026 14:56:21 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://derekbruff.org/2026/09/10/mits-report-on-ai-in-teaching-and-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mits-report-on-ai-in-teaching-and-learninghttps://derekbruff.org/2026/09/10/mits-report-on-ai-in-teaching-and-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mits-report-on-ai-in-teaching-and-learningCross-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…Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:17:01 GMTDerek BruffVoiceshttps://blog.edtechie.net/music/life-beyond-ed-tech/https://blog.edtechie.net/music/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…Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:13:59 GMTmwellerVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/higher-ed-needs-to-decide-what-ithttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/higher-ed-needs-to-decide-what-itIt’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.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:56:12 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://danmeyer.substack.com/p/how-to-inoculate-yourself-againsthttps://danmeyer.substack.com/p/how-to-inoculate-yourself-againstIt’s fifth grade for me this year.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:41:32 GMTDan MeyerVoiceshttps://teaforteaching.com/462-classroom-mindscapes/https://teaforteaching.com/462-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…Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:00:09 GMTadminVoiceshttps://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/60000-vanity-points/https://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/60000-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…Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:26:54 GMTCogDog The BlogVoiceshttps://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/stop-record-family-voices/https://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/stop-record-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 […]Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:33:22 GMTCogDog The BlogVoiceshttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/lets-not-let-this-turn-into-an-infernohttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/lets-not-let-this-turn-into-an-infernoPart 2 of an interview with Daryl Privott & Joseph Casey CosgriffTue, 08 Sep 2026 09:31:08 GMTLance EatonVoiceshttps://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/at-the-intersection-of-storytelling-aging-and-higher-education/https://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/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 →Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:34:08 GMTBryan AlexanderVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/ai-as-fuzzy-disintermediation-somehttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/ai-as-fuzzy-disintermediation-someSome thoughts I haven’t seen elsewhereMon, 07 Sep 2026 00:40:25 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://leonfurze.com/2026/09/06/computer-using-ai-is-solved/https://leonfurze.com/2026/09/06/computer-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…Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:08:10 GMTLeon FurzeVoiceshttps://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/move-slow-remake-things/https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/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 andSat, 05 Sep 2026 19:00:56 GMTAudrey WattersVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/can-you-order-these-milestones-inhttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/can-you-order-these-milestones-inThe Morrill Act to need-blind admissions.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:16:02 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/image-scoping-machines/https://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/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…Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:53:23 GMTCogDog The BlogVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/yes-googles-ai-overview-aio-stillhttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/yes-googles-ai-overview-aio-stillAnd AI Mode doesn’t and we should teach students thatThu, 03 Sep 2026 14:42:05 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://leonfurze.com/2026/09/03/rogue-ai-should-we-be-worried/https://leonfurze.com/2026/09/03/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.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:45:12 GMTLeon FurzeVoiceshttps://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/class-action-coffee/https://cogdogblog.com/2026/09/class-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 […]Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:15:43 GMTCogDog The BlogVoiceshttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/the-value-of-live-in-a-world-of-abundanthttps://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/the-value-of-live-in-a-world-of-abundantIn 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.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:50:37 GMTMichael B. HornVoiceshttps://bavatuesdays.com/books-fall-apart/https://bavatuesdays.com/books-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 →Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:12:40 GMTReverendVoiceshttps://teaforteaching.com/461-postdocs/https://teaforteaching.com/461-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…Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:00:37 GMTadminVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/neither-the-restaurants-using-aihttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/neither-the-restaurants-using-aiAt enough intensity, AI snobs and AI slobs are just two sides of the same coinTue, 01 Sep 2026 13:33:10 GMTMike CaulfieldVoiceshttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/its-not-a-tool-its-a-technologyhttps://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/its-not-a-tool-its-a-technologyPart 1 of an interview with Daryl Privott & Joseph Casey CosgriffTue, 01 Sep 2026 09:31:03 GMTLance EatonVoiceshttps://leonfurze.com/2026/09/01/controlling-hardware-with-generative-artificial-intelligence/https://leonfurze.com/2026/09/01/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…Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:35:05 GMTLeon FurzeVoiceshttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/just-reason-it-out-a-simple-followhttps://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/just-reason-it-out-a-simple-followMost times we are begging the LLM to ground in search, but sometimes we need the opposite.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:16:01 GMTMike CaulfieldVoices