Students Struggle Starting Without AI

Scholar power: 88.5%

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by Harry Anthony Patrinos

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Tressie McMillan Cottom

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers!

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke...

www.cambridge.org/core/books/q...

www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla...

jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

September 30, 2026 at 2:07 PM

by Katerina Harvati

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🎓 Katerina Harvati	1%	51	2.1%

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Katerina Harvati

@katharv.bsky.social

Just don't use it!

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 2d

There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. Specialists in education and cognition have useful tips on how to stay cognitively sharp in the age of AI, according to a feature in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪

How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking

There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.

go.nature.com

September 30, 2026 at 11:54 AM

by Adam Wellstead

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Adam Wellstead

@amwellstead.bsky.social

The link goes to a different article about teaching using AI. That said, the opinion piece is just as dumb.

September 30, 2026 at 12:11 PM

by Greg O’Brien

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🎓 Greg O’Brien	4%	19	5.2%

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Greg O'Brien

@profobrien.bsky.social

Sorta like university Administrators who haven't taught a class of their own in years, even decades, but assume they know what learning strategies are effective.

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 3h

Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it.

They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

September 30, 2026 at 12:13 PM

by Goldie Blumenstyk

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Scholar power: 34.2%

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🎓 Goldie Blumenstyk	38%	9	34.2%

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Goldie Blumenstyk

@goldiestandard.bsky.social

Been thinking about how the breakneck pace of AI is changing how students approach their college educations — and how institutional leaders should respond. So I’m excited to be moderating this discussion tomorrow at 1 pm. Join us.

portal.cumuonline.org/events/webin...

Webinar | Empowering the AI-Era Learner: Moving from Institutional Policy to Pedagogical Action - Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities

portal.cumuonline.org

September 29, 2026 at 3:41 PM

Reposted by Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

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by Pedro Domingos

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Scholar power: 16.5%

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by Brendan Nyhan Reposted by Ethan Porter

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Scholar power: 3.1%

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🎓 Brendan Nyhan	1%	51	2.1%
🎓 Ethan Porter	2%	22	0.9%
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by Andrés Guadamuz

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Scholar power: 2.3%

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🎓 Andrés Guadamuz	2%	15	2.3%

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Andres Guadamuz

@technollama.bsky.social

Interesting results from first student poll on AI, this is a second year "AI and the Law" class. Small class (optional module capped at 25 students). Unsurprisingly, mostly positive or indifferent to AI, self-selection bias.

September 30, 2026 at 8:18 AM

by Andrés Guadamuz

2%

Scholar power: 2.3%

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🎓 Andrés Guadamuz	2%	15	2.3%

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Andres Guadamuz

@technollama.bsky.social

Also unsurprising in AI attitudes, but very high reliability. The comment from students was that they had noticed a reduction on hallucinations and increase in capabilities. Class evenly split on super-intelligence.

September 30, 2026 at 8:21 AM

by Brendan Nyhan Reposted by Jan W. Mueller

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Scholar power: 2.8%

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🎓 Brendan Nyhan	1%	51	2.1%
🎓 Jan W. Mueller	4%	3	0.7%
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Brendan Nyhan

@brendannyhan.bsky.social

Contrary to this op-ed, we don't actually have to give up on papers! New in @chronicle.com

How to Assign Research Papers Again
Three ways to counter AI and restore confidence in the integrity of student writing www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

September 29, 2026 at 5:58 PM

by Margot C. Finn

1%

Scholar power: 1.2%

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🎓 Margot C. Finn	1%	17	1.2%

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Margot Finn

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

'How about discipline/subject-based collaboration that researches, tests and implements viable learning, teaching and assessment policies for taught students in the AI age?

Surely an area where instead of competing we should be collaborating for best practice not just regionally but across the UK.

September 30, 2026 at 7:22 AM

by Markus K. Brunnermeier

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🎓 Markus K. Brunnermeier	0%	65	0.0%

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Reposted by Mick Smith, Steve Peers, Els Torreele

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Scholar power: 0.8%

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🎓 Mick Smith	2%	18	0.8%
🎓 Steve Peers	0%	27	0.0%
🎓 Els Torreele	-	27	-
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Iris van Rooij 💭

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social

🚨 Please boost, read, and sign if you want to support ✍️

OPEN LETTER: Pause the national rollout of AI-mediated tutoring in England's schools

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OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND’S SCHOOLS

OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...

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September 29, 2026 at 5:20 PM

by Patrick Stokes

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Scholar power: 4.0%

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🎓 Patrick Stokes	4%	11	4.0%

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Patrick Stokes

@patrickstokes.com

"With AI you'll never have to listen to music you don't like again!" is basically the musical equivalent of a sex doll. Like bots that only say yes and are never unavailable. It's absolute solipsism.

September 30, 2026 at 9:46 AM

by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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Scholar power: 5.9%

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🎓 Ben Harris‐Roxas	4%	24	5.9%

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Ben Harris-Roxas

@benhr.bsky.social

As more Australian universities use AI to mark students’ work, is it creating a ‘slop-cycle’? www.theguardian.com/australia-news…

Couldn’t agree more with this quote.

Text Shot: “We’ve got to be really careful where we are stepping here,” he says. “Because I think there’s always a risk, at the moment, for higher education to collapse”.

September 29, 2026 at 11:08 PM

by Ian Bremmer

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🎓 Ian Bremmer	0%	23	0.0%

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ian bremmer

@ianbremmer.com

self-awareness does not (!) absolve ai companies from responsibility…

or serve as an adequate development guardrail…

September 29, 2026 at 4:26 PM

by Stephen D. Williamson

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Stephen Williamson

@1954swilliamson.bsky.social

😂😂😂Yes, whenever I see students with their headsets on watching their computers, I know the technology is enormously effective...at holding their attention. What it's doing to them is another thing altogether.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Linda McMahon: "AI is definitely a tool used correctly. I've seen it in action. I have visited the Alpha School in Austin, Texas, where they use AI for the first two hours every single morning. The students have their headsets on, they are watching their computers ... it is incredibly effective"

September 29, 2026 at 6:17 PM

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