Dwayne Ripley
@dwayneripley.bsky.social
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Creating and translating knowledge on the learning sciences. PhD in design for interdisciplinary education. ORCID: 0000-0002-7812-0614
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
In this meta-analysis, topic knowledge was not related to people's subjective perceptions of the truthfulness of content (i.e., credibility perceptions). Source credibility, argument quality, and ease of understanding (fluency) had the strongest relations. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Factors Associated With Information Credibility Perceptions: A Meta-Analysis - Mengxue Ou, Shirley S. Ho, 2024
Research on factors influencing information credibility judgment is increasing, whereas their findings are mixed. This study conducted a meta-analysis of 85 emp...
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dwayneripley.bsky.social
Clear articulation of the current situation. Being critical of educational technology doesn't mean you are anti-technology.
leonfurze.com
Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #DigitalTech #DigitalTechnologies
Technology is Actually Pretty Great
Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability.
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teachinginhe.bsky.social
New publication alert! 🚨

Approaches to educational curation: how lecturers in higher education incorporate educational resources in course designs

By R.H. Leighton et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEd #EducationalResources
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Approaches to educational curation: how lecturers in higher education incorporate educational resources in course designs by R.H. Leighton, D.M.E. Griffioen and J. Elen. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link). A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
"The better way forward, I’d wager, is both simple and drastic: to consider A.I. as the constructed piece of code it fundamentally is, not a mystical black box with unlimited potential... (1/4) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...
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ACOG @acog.org · 16d
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
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liedra.net
In other news, sky is blue, sea is wet, and anyone who has worked with machine learning has known this all along
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garethwatkins.bsky.social
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
dwayneripley.bsky.social
This shows that it's not economically viable to reduce, and impossible to eliminate AI hallucinations.

The responsibilty for what AI spits out is up to the user.

Applying a critical lens to information and developing an understanding of how knowledge is created becomes more important than ever.
jeffgreene.bsky.social
This is a really fascinating article on why LLMs will likely always suffer from hallucinations and how the fixes are unpalatable to average consumers. It suggest general use LLMs will always have hallucinations, whereas more bespoke LLMs could be made more reliable, at significant expense.
OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It
OpenAI's latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as "hallucination".
www.sciencealert.com
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australianare.bsky.social
Looking for someone who has researched the impact of violent images on the news and via scrolling on children's health and wellbeing to write a piece for #EduResearchMatters. Please reach out to Naomi Barnes or Jenna Price if you have the expertise to comment on this in the context of education.
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
🗣️ When is using #GenAI a helpful shortcut, and when is using it really just cutting yourself short?

Find out in this (short!) article in Psychology Today by yours truly.

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky #Expertise
Learning With GenAI: Shortcuts Versus Cutting Yourself Short
When should you use generative AI to learn? Some say you should use generative AI all the time; others say never. Your answer should depend on your goals.
www.psychologytoday.com
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ccguerilla.bsky.social
I keep asking myself, if convenors are throwing in AI, as in "teaching students how to use it", what are they throwing out of their courses, and why?
olivia.science
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
dwayneripley.bsky.social
"perhaps not the avalanche... but if some students are reporting learning benefits then this should be taken as evidence that there is at least some good being done. But... it all feels like rather thin stuff."
- Evidence shows that students are poor judges of their own learning though, so very thin
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schleiermocker.bsky.social
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
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essaywells.bsky.social
If the business model doesn't allow for paying the people who do the work the business depends on, maybe the business should not be a business.
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
Do students learn to think like researchers? 🧪 Our study found psych majors judged study quality & designed research using sound criteria. High achievers also reflected on why methods matter. More evidence for teaching epistemic reflection.
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
College Undergraduates’ Use of Epistemic Criteria and Strategies While Designing Psychology Research Studies
Barzilai and Chinn (2018) have advocated for framing education more overtly around epistemic matters to help students learn how to create worthwhile epistemic aims, which they achieve by using appr...
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