@lundieeducation
Professor of Education, University of Glasgow Dumfries campus. Deputy Editor, British Journal of Religious Education. ESRC Teaching for Digital Citizenship. Templeton Bridging Culture Gaps through Empathy. #TeamRE #UofG #philosophy
Enjoy the audio overview version of my latest blog, Will Generative AI Kill the Open Educational Resources Movement? notebooklm.google.com/notebook/f80... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #OER
When two teen test accounts asked about carrying out violence, many AI chatbots didn’t refuse or discourage them, they helped via @CNN edition.cnn.com/2026/03/12/b... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai
"age verification undermines any effort to protect children by putting their privacy at risk.
These systems fail in predictable ways... Scale that experience across millions of users, and you bake the privacy risk into how platforms work"
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/h...
Things don't occur in a vacuum. Threatening students with failure or expulsion is going to terrify them, particularly when the "AI detection" methods are flawed.
This is a really good look at some of the unintended consequences of harsh AI penalties from @masnick.com
#AcademicSky
Is there a case to be made to the financial markets as well - that balancing the books doesn't bring stability if it's a strategy that falls off a cliff edge and guarantees an extreme and irresponsible government (left or right) in 3 years time, so some more spending needs to be tolerated?
What's the harm in identifying as a cat anyway? Cats never did me any harm. I'd be far more worried about children identifying as Reform supporters! Reform MS Laura Anne Jones's children identifying as cats speech labelled misinformation - BBC News share.google/qbqZ8WnIGixh...
NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.
“We just can't rely on the companies to voluntarily stand up,” says Dr. Alan Mackworth, UBC computer science prof. emeritus. “There needs to be some public accountability by having a regulatory agency with enforcement powers to check standards.” @cs.ubc.ca @alanmackworth.bsky.social
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#areiac + anyone interested in the changes that may be ahead for RE and how this can ensure diverse voices are included are welcome to join! #teamre 👇tinyurl.com/yx3zstsk
aeon.co/essays/what-... "The fragmentation [of attention] correlates not with screens in general but with specific design patterns... choices made by specific companies for specific economic reasons. They are not inherent properties of the medium."
"Once built, this surveillance infrastructure will be abused, just as every prior expansion of government surveillance and censorship power has been. We must do everything in our power to stop these laws where we can and preserve a free and open internet."
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As Glasgow Film Festival opens with Everyone to Kenmure Street, Lucy Butters asks what Scotland’s protests say about our culture | Lucy Butters
Can't help being reminded of CS Lewis and the Screwtape Letters when Hegseth talks about "the Enemy"
Text reads: Why education? Education’s investment appeal stems from its fundamental role as economic infrastructure. The global education market is projected to expand from $6tn in 2022 to $8tn by 20303, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.7%, a trajectory that reflects sustained market expansion despite economic uncertainties.
How the private equity industry views education is really alien to how educators see it. Yet these investors probably have a bigger say in how the future of education will unfold.
First, education is a *market* worth $trillions *in the future* making it a good speculative bet for investment...
A trend becoming visible in student recruitment in UK and other European universities
Is it getting to the point where fiscal restraint is actually a check on stable economic growth? Markets are looking at this the same way they looked at Biden, "sure, things are stable now, but if you keep going like this, we know what's coming."
They just need the powdered wigs and the Restoration Comedy will be completely period-accurate!
Well, of course he needed a massage, he'd put his back out playing golf at St Andrews, and then he'd had to sit all cramped in the back of an RAF helicopter he'd chartered to take him back up to Balmoral in the evening!
When I was misconduct officer, I saw so many students flagged by Turnitin for plagiarism who said "Sorry, I thought I had changed it enough". I realised we had told them what not to do, but not why they are doing what we ask them to do in the first place. Detection doesn't get to the root problem.
📢 New workshop alert! Calling all secondary #teachers and #edtech company representatives in the Cardiff area. Join us for some lively discussions about #equity. @cardiffmet.bsky.social
edtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/workshops/wo...
Cheering on #TeamMouat local lads from D&G, in the @teamgbofficial.bsky.social @winterolympics.bsky.social #Curling this evening. Any budding young curlers wanting to train with #TeamMorrison at Dumfries Ice Bowl or #TeamMouat in Stranraer might want to study with us at @uofgdumfries.bsky.social
Part of our recent paper led by @jkom.bsky.social was on how academic papers are assetized by being licensed tp big tech for LLM training - and now we see the subscription products appearing from publishers to double the financial yield of those agreements link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I shouldn't judge them by appearances. But they chose to be photographed that way. In hunting tweed. And with that mustache. I mean... Seriously?
Is today the world's biggest convergence of celebrations? Mardi Gras, 1st day of Ramadan, and Chinese New Year? I make that at least 4m people around the world celebrating something.
They have to take all those Timeouts to make space for all the advertising.
You have good researchers. Get out of their way, and they will do good research. It's Arts & Humanities, so you don't need to decide who gets to use the supercollider. You know you've got "research culture" right when people stop talking about research culture and just talk about their research.
The title of the session
Two ingredients of conspiracy theories: distrust and the art of vague insinuations
Two biases we are all vulnerable to: the causality bias and the intentionality bias!
How to craft a popular conspiracy theory in three easy steps!
Fun Masterclass yesterday with a group of engaged year 12 students! We talked about conspiracy theories and played Fake Plots, using The Philosophy Garden resources! #philsky #edusky #philosophyforeveryone #philosophymatters
We are at BETT across the next 3 days! 🌟
You can come talk membership, accreditation, grab an EdTech Evidence Evaluation Tool, or just say hi to one of our team at stand SP86, or catch Cat, Sam, Katy or Holly speaking! (See image for agenda)
#BETTUK2026
The biggest challenge for the UK is our "independent" nuclear deterrent is dependent on US for supply & maintenance. Cutting that link means de facto disarmament, unlike the Canadians. Alternatives are either develop our own at trillions in costs, or buy a balanced portfolio of Russian/Chinese nukes