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The Admin Console Arms Race: Visibility With(out) Architecture #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79089 This article looks at what four AI edtech companies are doing. "Every AI edtech company pitching districts right now has the same slide in their deck: a sleek admin console showing usage analytics, content moderation controls, and real-time visibility into what students and teachers are doing with AI." The products are SchoolAI's Mission Control, MagicSchool, Brisk Teaching, and Kira.

Building Resilience through DigitalSmarts #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79088 According to the blurb, "this report (82 page PDF) shares findings from MediaSmarts' four-year intervention research project... which developed and evaluated the Resilience through DigitalSmarts program.

Avoiding the attractiveness of Generative AI in essay writing: A combined view from a student and a tutor – Teaching Matters #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79087 This article touches on both analytical reading and its application in essay writing. I wouldn't say that it's wrong exactly - a lot of it overlaps with my own way of doing things, though I tend to use far fewer tables - but some of the things are a bit misleading.

Decolonizing Your Reading List: A Practical Starting Guide #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79086 Ciera Smith writes, "Decolonizing a reading list isn’t necessarily about removing works by seminal figures in a discipline. Rather it’s a highly intellectual exercise requiring consideration of whose knowledge is privileged and whose voice is excluded.

The open web isn't dying. We're killing it #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79085 Julien Genestoux responds to Anil Dash’s article, Endgame for the Open Web, and makes a point well worth making. "I think it is too easy to tell the story as if the open web was simply attacked from the outside. It also obscures the fact that we actually traded the web away." I think the history of RSS is a good example of this. We're told 'Google killed RSS' when they shut down Google Reader.

EmDash Playground #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79084 A lot of smart thinking went into this application that touts itself as what WordPress would look like if it were built with today's tools. It's "a full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare.

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Resilience in the Age of AI #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79083 Three classes of workers will emerge: Those who care, employed in high-touch professions delivering 'hand-holding' care. Those who service, doing the things that aren't yet automated.

Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the Age of AI: Experts Call for Radical Change Across Institutions, Social Structures - Imagining the Digital Future Center #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79082