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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A Inovação Pedagógica no Ensino Superior na Era dos Algoritmos. Uma perspectiva muito distinta da tradicional sobre a natureza e prática da inovação pedagógica. Editorial do número de Jan-Jun 2026 da Revista Portuguesa de Educação. revistas.rcaap.pt/rpe/article/...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Education and Robots: Can Robots Teach Children to Love Reading? Check out my new post on SubStack! open.substack.com/pub/humandim...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

My latest post on The Human Dimension of Technology addresses The Responsibility of Academics. open.substack.com/pub/humandim...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Teenagers and Social Media. My post today on ‘The Human Dimension of Technology’. The next post will be a follow-up to this one, devoted to the relationship between teenagers and artificial intelligence. open.substack.com/pub/humandim...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Educar em Tempos de Ecrãs: Desafios para a Infância e Adolescência. Uma tertúlia das Inquietações Pedagógicas, às 18:00 horas da próxima terça-feira forms.gle/R8WoYkRMEUpS...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Revista Vértice. Inteligência Artificial. O número mais recente da revista Vértice (nº 213) é dedicado à Inteligência Artificial e contém artigos da autoria de uma dezena de académicos portugueses.

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Prompt Engineering. This Google whitepaper [PDF, 6.8 MB, 69 pages] offers an extensive guide for developers, researchers, and AI professionals to optimize their interactions with large language models and improve the quality of their content www.gptaiflow.tech/assets/files...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

O Desafio de Ser Humano na Era da Inteligência Artificial. Uma conversa de fim de tarde no parque da cidade (Estação Elevatória de Coimbra).

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Autonomous AI Agents: Risks, Benefits, and Ethical Values. This arXiv paper argues against the development of fully autonomous AI agents, suggesting the preference for semi-autonomous solutions #ai #autonomousagents arxiv.org/pdf/2502.02649

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Being Human Today: Art, Education and Mental Health in Conversation [PDF, 234 pp, Open Access]. A book about education, but without technologies, by a group of innovative authors. Gert Biesta is one of the authors I most enjoy reading when I read about education. library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The winds of AI are blowing scientific research into uncharted waters. Google and OpenAI's ‘Deep Research’ tools will soon make it difficult to distinguish between a genuine doctoral thesis and a fake one. This Nature article addresses the literature reviews lnkd.in/dD8mP8cS

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Artificial Esthetics. How generative AI is transforming our understanding of aesthetics, creativity, design and art. An open acess book [PDF, 8.2 MB, 194 pp] manovich.net/index.php/pr...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Narrative Creativity [Open Access]. This variety of creativity, inspired on neuroscience and storytelling, is distinct from the more common forms of creativity, such as ideation, divergent thinking, design thinking and brainstorming. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Qwen AI. Another Chinese language model, this one from the powerful Alibaba group, with several versions, free, open source and with better performance than DeepSeek. www.makeuseof.com/alibaba-laun...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Where is the critical thinking of Western analysts when they ask DeepSeek about Chinese ideology and use the answers to devalue the model? To use critical thinking is to understand diversity. It's not about following single-minded US models and censoring those that are different!

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking (Springer). This book claims that the recent emphasis on skills in school systems results in the underestimation of solid knowledge, which needs to be corrected by developing a curriculum for deep thinking link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Postsecondary Education: Building Capacity for the Road Ahead (US Office of Educational Technology). A guide for institutional leaders and educators [PDF, 39pp] tech.ed.gov/AI-postsecon...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A Researcher’s Guide. A concise open-access guide for young researchers covering the basic traditional topics [PDF, 147pp]. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Using AI to Automate the Literature Review Process in Education. A report on the use of AI in specific stages of the literature review to improve speed and efficiency [PDF, 68 pp] hashtag#research hashtag#literaturereview docs.edtechhub.org/lib/BVD8JX7V

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Artificial Intelligence for Literature Reviews. An extensive paper [PDF, 49pp] on the use of AI tools for systematic literature reviews #research #literaturereview #slr link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A Responsible Framework for Evaluating the Societal Impact of Research [PDF, 19 pp]. Clarivate, the champion of quantitative metrics, now recognizes the importance of qualitative evaluation and societal impact #research #evaluation #assessment #quality #metrics clarivate.com/academia-gov...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Metacognition and Self-Regulation in the Classroom. A Report with Inspirations from Latin America [PDF, 105 pp] #learning #education #metacognition #selfregulation media.licdn.com/dms/document...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Insights from the Science of Learning for Education: Leveraging Scientific Knowledge for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (UNESCO). I haven't read it yet, but here it is, for those who want to draw their own conclusions unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

OCDE/PISA. Learning Strategies and Attitudes for Life. The OECD has released volume V of the PISA 2022 report. #education #learning #oecd #pisa www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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António Dias de Figueiredo @adfig.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Actor-Network Theory. An introduction to Actor-Network Theory that shows how it can be used for the study, design, and management of socio-technical systems and for innovation #ANT #actornetworktheory #sociotechnical innovation #design #education www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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