@GrahamAttwell

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Researcher, blogger, socialist based in Valencia, Spain and Pontypridd, Wales. Work for Pontydysgu Spain and UK. Interests include education, teaching and learning theory and practice and use of technology for social good, for learning and for knowledge development. Support Werder Bremen football club.
#e-learning #knowedge-development @e-assessment #vocationaleducationandtraining #aianded #training -teachers #werderbremen #education

Work is evolving away from repeatable processes. Routine & even technical work continue to get automated. The future of human work in the digital network era is in craft & creative work — focused on unique, non-replicable processes. Improving insights is critical for this type of work. Social & informal learning need to be integrated into the workflow. This is much more than courses-on-demand or performance support tools. It is connecting people & knowledge. (2019)

https://jarche.com/2019/09/insights-over-processes/

Excellent article on banning young people from social media: "Young people are presumed incapable of navigating the digital world responsibly while parents are positioned as the primary custodians of digital safety. This creates a circular blame loop in which adolescents are punished for an apparent lack of maturity and parents for an assumed lack of vigilance all the while technology companies remain largely unaccountable."

https://digitalliteraciesnetwork.com/2025/12/06/misplaced-accountability-why-should-young-people-be-made-to-pay-for-the-problems-big-tech-create/

Misplaced accountability: Why should young people be made to pay for the problems Big Tech create?

Should individuals aged 16 and under face restrictions on social media use? The European Parliament thinks so. This position raises pressing questions: What assumptions underpin these recommendatio…

Digital Literacies Network
"have you used AudioPen
or have an opion on it" asked my colleague Dirk on our group chat. "tried it and didnt get on with it" replied Angela. And that seems as good a technical evaluation that I have seen!
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ih6ypaguutcm37typp6cftmw/post/3mae5cydfpc2z
More.from John Naughton's newsletter - "Large Language Models are cultural technologies and, as such, moderately useful. But they (and those who build them) have two blind spots. One is their embodiment of a ludicrously narrow concept of ‘intelligence’. The other is the delusion that when one has ‘read’ everything that’s been written, one knows everything worth knowing."
The old jokes are the nest -from John Naughton's newsletter - ”What’s the difference between a maths PhD and a large pizza? A large pizza can feed a family of four.”

If circulating pictures of the 'Peace Prize' charade I suggest the ALT-text:

"Spineless sycophants petting the ego of malignant narcissist'

"many commercial educational AI tools are based on folk theories of learning" Michał Wieczorek, and Alberto Romele
Compar:IA is a platform developed as part of the startup supported by the French Ministry of culture that allows users to try and evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMs’ responses. This tool also helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including users’ prompts data). http://comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025
compar:IA, le comparateur d'IA conversationnelles

compar:IA est un outil permettant de comparer à l’aveugle différents modèles d'IA conversationnelle pour sensibiliser aux enjeux de l'IA générative (biais, impact environmental) et constituer des jeux de données de préférence en français.

Scientific publishing may be the biggest scam you've never heard of. A billion-dollar industry built on free labor and public money—then sold back to us at a markup. It's not just broken. It's sabotaging progress.
#Science #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/we-need-to-talk-about-the-billion-dollar-industry-holding-science-hostage/

We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage

Your tax dollars fund the research. You pay again to read it.

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