Dr PenSep 12, 2025
Merchant's take on the recent academic plea for more criticality towards bots and text generators as education substitution apps. Why is HE (always) so compliant? bc HE is built on two things: obedience and normativism. #ai #chatbots #chatgpt #academia #academicbanter #education #highered

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Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

Blood in the Machine
Dr PenJul 20, 2025
Reactions to this morning's flurry of fairly pithy posts from Ben Williamson. Ed-tech is a mess, uncritical adoption dating back a long time led to the current situation. #academia #academicbanter #education #ai #genai #edtech #datasociety The righteous ire of Ben Williamson | penworks.net

The righteous ire of Ben Willi...
The righteous ire of Ben Williamson

Every academic in every discipline should be following Ben Williamson as part of CPD awareness for digital learning, I've followed his work since when...

Dr PenMar 21, 2025
Global HE rankings are big business. THE, QS, and Academic Rankings of World Universities offer consulting services, big data analysis, benchmarking, and other services. Conflict of interest and ethics of the system are a problem. #HE #data #academicbanter https://ihe.bc.edu/pub/6nf0v9ku/release/1

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Dr PenMar 17, 2025
It may be that part of the reason #HE has ran into the arms of #AI so willingly is bc most academics are rather digitally illiterate. Just thinking aloud, its not a scientific fact. But imo its very often true. AI does it for you, you dont have to use any other tech. #academia #academicbanter
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