The educational landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, with Artificial Intelligence at its helm. Recent discussions highlight a pivotal shift from initial apprehension to active experimentation with AI tools in classrooms, from personalized learning platforms emerging in Tennessee to cutting-edge language acquisition tools from Google and Duolingo. While the promise of AI agents, real-time translation, and advanced video capabilities excites, a critical discourse also questions the balance between AI's assistive power and the crucial role of "productive struggle" in genuine learning. As open education continues to evolve, with mega open universities reinventing themselves and the ongoing relevance of Open Educational Resources (OER) for AI educators, the core challenge lies in fostering AI literacy and developing a "posthumanist epistemology" where AI augments, rather than supplants, human cognitive development. This evolving dialogue, rooted in connectivist principles, suggests a future where knowledge is not merely additive, but compounds and crystallizes through new, AI-integrated learning paradigms.
Don Olcott, Jr., Apr 08, 2025 Honestly, this article (17 page PDF) could have come from 2005. The case for mega open universities hasn't really changed (even if the world has). But that case is still relevant today. Don Olcott summarizes the game-changers on the post-secondary system as "1) leadership, 2) expanding...
Florian Rampelt, et al., Open Praxis, Apr 15, 2025 This article surveys users of AI Campus, a platform teaching AI skills and competences, on how and why AI educators are using open educational resources (OER) in their projects. The literature review covers AI literacy (which I still view as a moving target),...
Bryan Perozzi, Google Research, Apr 18, 2025 This is a topic we touched on a lot when we were defining connectivism back in the early 2000s. Connectivism was in part the thesis that the way individuals - and societies - learn is described by graph learning. Graph learning is explained mathematically with...
The personalized learning platform is currently being implemented in Tennessee schools. How will it change education?
Available through Google Labs, the new tools use AI to provide language lessons to help you in real-life situations.
AI continues to expand its reach into our lives, and language learning is next on the list.This week brought big developments from both Google and Duolingo on that front. On Google's end, the search giant launched new Gemini-powered AI tools for users to learn foreign languages. Dubbed Little Language Lessons, the experimental feature offers three interactive...
David Ross, Getting Smart, May 01, 2025 I've discussed AI agents and related protocols (MCP, A2A) in previous posts, but unlike David Ross, I don't actually see them being applied to classroom learning. And I consider the recommendations to be misguided (the number one priority in the table illustrated is...
Bryan Alexander, AI, academia, and the Future AI, academia, and the Future, May 09, 2025 Bryan Alexander summarizes and then criticizes a Chronicle article by Scott Latham that can be summarized with two pullquotes: "Professors need to dispense with the delusional belief that AI can't do their job" and "I...
Dean Shareski, Ideas and Thoughts, May 07, 2025 Dean Shareski discusses a recent post from Clay Shirkey on the idea that students are not learning when they depend on AI do do the work. Now Shirkey's observations are based on "talking with professors and students" and are going to be biased in a certain...
Joan Westenberg, Westenberg., May 12, 2025 Short, but correct, to a point. "Knowledge isn't additive. It's not clay you pile. It's not sandbags on a levee. It doesn't obey volume. It compounds, condenses, crystallizes. And it does so slowly, painfully, across thousands of iterations." Twenty people with...
[Slides][Audio] What is the role of AI in education and its connection to Connectivist learning theories? 3rd International Virtual Congress on Research, Innovation, and Educational Technology in Pre-University and High School Education, Mexico City, via Zoom (Keynote) May 16, 2025 [Link] [Slides] [Audio] []
Edited transcript of recording by Google Audio Recorder. Slides and audio available here. There will be audio and video of the presentation available for you later. Oh, this is the audio being recorded. What's neat about that is it's automatically generating a transcript. So, that's our first use of artificial intelligence.So today, I'm speaking on...
J. Owen Matson, Ph.D.This essay was written in response to Dede’s recent public invitation for feedback on his keynote lecture exploring the role of generative AI in shaping human creativity. In that talk—as in much of his recent work—Dede advocates for an educational paradigm in which AI is used to support and extend human capacities rather than replace...
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Carlo Iacono, May 28, 2025 Good overview of where we're at with generative AI in education (TLDR: we've stopped panicking and started to experiment with the new tools, while the tools themselves are developing beyond their text-only roots). The best bit is saved to near the end: "Perhaps the most important...
Bharat Khushalani, EDUCAUSE Review, May 28, 2025 This is one of those cases where I misinterpreted a headline leading me to be disappointed in an otherwise decent article. The tagline is, "student success is a shared institutional commitment," and this tells you where the artile is going: getting different...
Alex Sarlin, Edtech Insiders, May 29, 2025 This article allows me to mention several recent Google announcements in a single post. One of them is Gemini's quiz feature. Another is the announcment of new AI video capabilities (though I think it still lags what's out there). Also, real time translation in...
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