One of the things teachers often hope for when it comes to AI in education is that it might finally reduce the time they spend providing feedback on writing assignments. Good feedback is one of the most powerful ways to promote learning, yet it also remains one of the most time-consuming parts of a teacher’s… Read More What AI does better than teachers. And especially what it doesn’t.
A Substack post that suddenly seemed to appear everywhere in my feed led me to an interesting systematic review recently published in Review of Education. The authors did something that, surprisingly, had never been done before. They searched for experimental evidence supporting the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies, a framework that has become highly influential in some… Read More The Multimodal Learning Confusion
In recent years, I have regularly heard that AI systems work with attention. It is no coincidence that this word reappears in the title of the famous article that made the current generation of language models possible: Attention is All You Need, a paper published 9 years ago today. But how comparable is that attention actually to human… Read More Does AI have an attention problem?
No new research in this post, but rather another retraction involving AI. We already had that large meta-analysis that did not meet quality standards, but this time the story is different. The article in question appeared in Teaching and Teacher Education, one of the most prestigious journals in educational science. The title alone reveals that… Read More Another AI article retracted from a top journal. But this time, the story is different.
Sometimes I receive comments that I am too critical of AI. But let me make one thing clear: I try to look at both the advantages and the disadvantages. And that is not limited to AI. That is also true for this new study in Nature by Qianyue Hao and colleagues. They investigate, on a… Read More AI makes scientists more successful, but does it also narrow science?
Imagine submitting a paper as a student. A few days later, you receive feedback. Detailed. Polite. Well-structured. Perhaps even empathetic and warm-hearted. Except: no one has actually read your text. That scenario is closer than many people think. A new British research project involving Cambridge, Nottingham, and Manchester Metropolitan University, among others, investigated how well AI systems… Read More When AI Grades Your Essay: Impressive, but Problematic
Not another blog post about AI and education… No, I’m not trying to guess your thoughts, but it is what I sometimes think myself. Sometimes I feel like everything has already been said and written. Whether it be by AI or not (I wanted to insert an em dash here just for fun). But there… Read More What ChatGPT does to critical and creative thinking
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Yesterday, I came across this message (in French) on Twitter. Because the person who shared it isn’t named Éléonore, I assume she didn’t write it herself. So I went looking. Call it an obsession. I found the same message a few times, including on Facebook , but also a similar message from a certain Claire on Instagram:… Read More Synthetic Authenticity: Be Careful With AI Testimonials About Education…
I, too, have received emails about articles or papers that I supposedly wrote, but which simply do not exist. It is a phenomenon that researchers increasingly encounter, as AI systems produce convincing-sounding but fabricated references. Through Inside Higher Ed, I discovered that these are now called Frankencitations. These citations appear to be compiled from existing authors,… Read More Word of the day: Frankencitations