Predictive analytics in universities often overstates how accurately student outcomes can be forecast from incomplete, biased historical data.True educational insight requires context, human judgment, and understanding students’ individual circumstances, not simply labeling them “at risk” based on dashboards.
How AI Is Changing Teaching Workflows
AI is saving teachers meaningful time. Whether that eases burnout depends on where the time goes.
https://edtechinsiders.substack.com/p/how-ai-is-changing-teaching-workflows…
This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren’t all on board
CSU’s large-scale ChatGPT Edu partnership with OpenAI aims to make it the first AI-powered university system of its kind, but many students and faculty remain skeptical about AI’s educational value and broader impacts.
https://www.kosu.org/news/2026-05-25/this-big-university-system-is-embracing-ai-students-and-faculty-arent-all-on-board…
The Pope on Defederation
The Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas encyclical is viewed as a treatise on AI, writes Laurens Hof, but the article also reads it as a diagnosis of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/…
How DuckDuckGo Can Be a Hero
Google’s shift from pure web search to AI assistant features creates an opening for DuckDuckGo to position itself as the default “pure web search” alternative while keeping its privacy advantage.
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A human centered model for discussing AI in assessment
AI should not be the centre of assessment renewal; instead, it should prompt us to redesign assessment around three human-centred questions: Did students do the work? Have they learned? Are we helping them learn more?
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AI is Forcing the Return of Writing by Hand in the Classroom
As AI makes take-home writing harder to police, many teachers are shifting toward in-class, handwritten, and more personal reflective assignments.
https://mindmatters.ai/2026/04/ai-is-forcing-the-return-of-writing-by-hand-in-the-classroom…
Student Success (in the Age of AI)
AI exposes the collapse of a school bargain built on compliance and credentials, making student agency the only remaining source of real learning and success.
https://www.stevehargadon.com/2026/05/student-success-in-age-of-ai.html…
The Time My Students Used AI in Their Final Reflections – and I Liked It!
A critical AI educator explains that, while deeply skeptical of AI’s harms and ideologies, they focus on building students’ critical AI literacy and transparency, and were pleasantly surprised by thoughtful student uses of AI in final reflections.
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In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few
The Pope’s first encyclical reportedly critiques AI’s concentration of power, lack of public oversight, privacy risks, manipulation, and tendency to reinforce hidden biases under the appearance of neutrality.
https://religionnews.com/2026/05/25/in-his-first-encyclical-pope-leo-xiv-says-ai-must-serve-humanity-not-the-powerful-few/…
Microsoft Wants to ‘Make People Addicted’ to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
Planning documents for “Scout” say the plan is to “make people addicted” to the tool before adding new features.
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/…
Academia Is Enshittifying. AI Made It Faster.
A small retraction notice opens onto a large structural shift. AI did not start the rot in academic publishing. AI is the catalyst that is finishing it.
https://theslowai.substack.com/p/academia-is-enshittifying-ai-made-it-faster…
10 Free Google AI Tools You’re Probably Not Using Yet (But Should Be)
Google offers several free, browser-based AI tools beyond Gemini that provide practical, accessible ways to explore generative AI for work, learning, creativity, and everyday tasks.
https://aitoolsclub.com/10-free-google-ai-tools-youre-probably-not-using-yet-but-should-be…
Students Are Digital Natives. Let Them Lead the AI Revolution in Education
The article argues that AI literacy should become central to education reform and that students should help shape responsible AI policies for schools.
3,500-Year-Old Hittite Handwriting Deciphered by New AI System
Researchers have developed Palaeographicum, an AI tool that analyzes handwriting patterns in Hittite cuneiform tablets, helping scholars match broken fragments, date undated texts, and potentially identify individual scribes much faster than before.
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/19/ai-decipher-hittite-handwriting…