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Doug Holton
@edtechdev.bsky.social
faculty development, educational technology, open source, learning sciences...
Mostly posting on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@dougholton
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Multiple articles have reported allegedly alarmingly low levels of #math prep of students at @ucsandiego.bsky.social (buff.ly/L5TlNL3 ). We need to know how this is being measured because research has shown that traditional techniques have made many errors (buff.ly/9YyhCvW). #AcademicSky #highered
What the internet backlash over remedial math at UC San Diego misses
Limiting students’ access to college because they are deemed underprepared does not seem to do them any favors.
buff.ly
December 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Ibukunoluwa Bukola, Meagan Sundstrom, Justin Gambrell, Colin Green, Adrienne L. Traxler, Eric Brewe: Measuring fidelity of implementation of named active learning methods in physics https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17699 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17699 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17699
December 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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💎 70 Gems! www.edugems.ai

There's now a total of 70 Gemini Gems on my EduGems site covering:
💡 Curriculum & Lesson Design
📖 Literacy & Language
🧒 Student Activities
💯 Assessment
🔑 Support
💼 Professional Tasks

Use, copy & share for free!

#EduSky #EduSkyAI #EdTech #GoogleEDU
December 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I'm exhausted of pieces that bemoan the state of accommodations in #HigherEd, which thoughtful ppl then devote precious time debunking. I'm grateful that there is a cadre of folks willing to do the labor represented in this piece, but can we just please STOP?! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Colleges Don’t “Over-Accommodate” Disabilities (opinion)
A certain genre of articles skeptical of higher ed’s disability accommodation process fuels attacks on civil rights.
www.insidehighered.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A Scalable, Theory-Based Intervention to Influence Teachers' Student Engagement Practices Improves Academic Performance in a State-Wide Sample www.researchgate.net/publication/...
More about FUSE (Fellowship Using the Science of Engagement): fuse.prc.utexas.edu
#EdDev #EdPsy #Teaching
(PDF) A Scalable, Theory-Based Intervention to Influence Teachers' Student Engagement Practices Improves Academic Performance in a State-Wide Sample
PDF | What can be done about the crisis of student disengagement? A theoretical analysis led to a novel behavioral intervention that motivated and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
www.researchgate.net
December 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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The Hidden Curriculum of AI Syllabus Statements: How Fear-Based Framing Shapes Student Behaviour and Academic Integrity academicintegrity.org/aws/ICAI/pt/sh… #AI #education
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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New in The Important Work, Maggie Boyd writes about working with colleagues to create a tool to help students think about the choice to use AI and shares her experience using the tool to help Writing Center tutors talk to students about AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/pause-befo...
Pause Before You Prompt
Empowering Students to Evaluate AI Tools in a Values-Based Framework
theimportantwork.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Tried out Gemini 3 for real classroom tasks. Two were fine. One was jaw-dropping. Think time-stamped video feedback grounded in YOUR rubric.
Full blog post here: open.substack.com/pub/davidpbl...
#Education #GenerativeAI #ProjectBasedLearning #Gemini3 #EdTech #PBL #formativeassessment #assessment
How Google’s Gemini 3 Could Revolutionize Project-Based Learning and Assessment in K–12
Google’s newest AI model, Gemini 3, may not be sparking joy for every classroom teacher — but that might change. I put the model through three classroom-centric tasks and found one function that left ...
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Universities 'refusing to use AI checkers' are a light in the darkness for me, as it means that FOR ONCE they want to actually tackle a problem, not throw money at a flawed solution because it means they can get it off their list & stop thinking about it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Consider the reasons why student may be driven to submit AI generated assessment: Are they overburdened with content? Do we explicitly describe the value in the development of the skills? Is the assessment aligned to the learning outcomes? Is this made apparent to the students? #AcademicSky #EduSky
Navigating AI generated assessment and academic integrity standards
Tertiary education has received a shake up since the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, challenging educators to rethink what truly constitutes student work and academic honesty. While AI-generated responses pose new questions about integrity, meaningful assessment design and deeper student engagement remain key to authentic learning. Discover strategies for defending against AI-produced submissions, fostering higher-order thinking, and nurturing ethical digital citizenship in today’s classrooms.
theeddesigner.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Ludovic Petitdemange, Salom\'e Nashed: Enabling Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals to Pursue Careers in Science https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17620 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.17620 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.17620
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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The Case for AI as Accommodation (opinion) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/… #AI #education #accessibility
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The Role of Prior Knowledge in Effects of Embodied Pedagogies on Learning: https://osf.io/qyjp9
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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This is a cool paper showing that first-gen college students don't realize a lot of unwritten rules that lead to success (the value of internships, student clubs, letters from professors).

But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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My essay for The Teaching Professor, "How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning" now freely available at ResearchGate
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning
PDF | Last month I wrote about how students fool themselves into thinking they have learned concepts when they really haven't. This month I focus on how... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
www.researchgate.net
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Student Success | How Academic Setbacks Impede First-Generation Completion

A recent study finds students who are the first in their family to attend college are more likely to drop out after receiving a negative grade. https://bit.ly/4oTFZKd

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Adult learners are reshaping higher education. Learn what the science says about cognitive ageing, effective interventions and how to build age-inclusive classrooms: https://ow.ly/3VBZ50XnbGi #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
‘Adults bring experience and cognitive strengths to lifelong learning’
The science of adult learning provides a road map for strengths-based, age-inclusive programme design and helps turn classrooms into vibrant hubs of intergenerational learning
ow.ly
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
AI Literacy Across the Curriculum
edtechdev.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/a...
Mastering #AILiteracy or indeed any literacy is not something that can be done in a single lesson or module, but is better distributed throughout students’ education (like Writing Across the Curriculum) #AIEd #EdDev #EdTech
AI Literacy Across the Curriculum
As you have no doubt seen, AI is becoming ubiquitous in our lives and in the technologies we use every day. Generative AI is no longer an experimental tool, but a deployed technology in many of the…
edtechdev.wordpress.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Faculty Development and GenAI Playbook: Evidence-based Best Practices www.everylearnereverywhere.org/resources/fa...
#EdDev #AIEd
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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New post on Humanist! I was excited to read Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger's “Opposite of Cheating,” and the writing is a pleasure. Yes, plagiarism is rampant, but …
Reviving academic integrity: Part I - Dishonesty as a Design Challenge
When I first saw the announcement that Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A Rettinger were putting out a new book called The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI, I immediately ...
humanist.ghost.io
October 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"Increasingly, AI chatbots are unwilling to acknowledge that they do not know the answer to a question. Instead, they make stuff up. A September report from NewsGuard, which monitors online misinformation, found that “non-response rates fell from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025.”"
An alarming amount of the news information AI chatbots provide to users is false.

The study found that 20% of the AI chatbots’ answers “contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.”
What happens when you trust AI for news
AI chatbots are surging in popularity.
popular.info
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM