Category: Artificial Intelligence

At an EdTech conference in New York, Coursemojo co-founder Dacia Toll argued that AI has so far had a net negative impact on students, despite its potential. She cautioned that education faces a complex mix of good and bad uses …

Take control of your privacy, cut off data trackers, and erase your online presence. Here’s how.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/11-ways-to-delete-or-hide-yourself-from-the-internet-and-protect-your-privacy…

Students are adopting generative AI for learning much faster than schools, according to Project Tomorrow’s latest national survey of over 45,000 participants. Experts and students urge schools to create clear AI policies and integrate these tools into teaching or risk …

Big Tech’s AI integrations are deepening surveillance capitalism, collecting and inferring unprecedented amounts of personal data without meaningful consent. The article argues for private, encrypted AI alternatives like Lumo to counter growing data exploitation and restore user control.

https://proton.me/blog/private-ai…

Some of Grokipedia’s pages say that content is ‘adapted’ from Wikipedia.

https://www.theverge.com/news/807686/elon-musk-grokipedia-launch-wikipedia-xai-copied…

A professor explains that using ChatGPT for essays misses the point: AI can’t reflect one’s own thoughts, values, or experiences. He also notes that most proposed “solutions” to AI in education, like changing teaching strategies, sound easier than they are …

OpenAI’s new browser, Atlas, replaces real web content with AI-generated material, blurring what’s authentic online. It also shifts control, users must guess commands while effectively working for the browser instead of it serving them.

https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser…

Copilot now has its own virtual character for its voice mode.

https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy…

Universities often fail at implementing learning analytics because they treat it as a static IT or enterprise system rather than a dynamic decision-support process. Using situational awareness theory, the author shows that effective analytics must align with teachers’ real contexts, …

After trying out plenty of options, here are the five best Duolingo alternatives that stand out from the rest.

https://www.androidauthority.com/duolingo-alternatives-3608570…

This guide offers strategies for integrating Generative AI into multimodal teaching, learning, and assessment. It supports educators and educational developers in driving pedagogical innovation amid evolving educational landscapes.

https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194252/1/Output1_an-educators-guide-to-multimodal-learning-and-generative-ai.pdf…

Teachers in EdSurge’s research urged schools to replace AI bans with a harm reduction approach, teaching students to use AI responsibly rather than prohibiting it. This philosophy emphasizes preparedness over prohibition, fostering transparency, co-learning, and context-specific guidelines that build critical …

Champlain College Saint-Lambert’s Millennium Certificate Program (MCP) helps students build 21st-century skills through independent and experiential learning using the Linkr platform. Guided by faculty mentors, students earn certificates by completing projects and peer exchanges, an approach that could inspire similar …

I’ve tried countless note-taking apps over the years: OneNote, Google Keep, and everything in between, from the ultra-minimalist to the overwhelmingly feature-packed. Yet none have made me want to write quite like Anytype.

https://www.makeuseof.com/anytype-beautiful-open-source-note-taking…