David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"The researchers found that the kids were significantly more engaged when they learned from the hologram than when they completed a worksheet." What if one of the options was learning from a teacher who is well-supported, who is not stressed out to hell? 010
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Along similar lines, this can go to hell too: www.wosu.org/2026-09-17/s...wosu.org'Super Buddy' AI hologram expected to help kids learn life skills at Lifetown ColumbusThe artificial intelligence hologram named Mia is designed to ask for advice, allowing kids to share what they've learned and become mentors. 110
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is a great piece so far! Thx for sharing it! 120
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Imagine if students didn't need four fucking jobs to be able to afford tuition, housing, food, and all the other conditions necessary for learning. But nah, let's sticky with the AI study buddy. That way, students can learn AND have four fucking jobs! 120
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Imagine if--and this is a shocking fantasy--there was a way to make localized education options available and more broadly to transform our society into one in which people have the time and resources and supports to attend the schools they wish. 110
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Imagine if the time and energy and gazillions of dollars that are poured into the tech industry for technological "solutions" were instead spent on addressing those structural barriers 131
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yeah, yeah, I know - distance ed and other cases where the barrier to connecting with others is more pronounced. It's completely in line with AI's technosolutionism, though, to address them as problems of data rather than addressing the structural barriers to nurturing living relationships. 140
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Universities: Wow, students are really struggling with isolation and mental health these days for some reason. Students, please don't be alone! Also universities: Here's a new AI "study buddy"! Now you don't have to connect with others in your class. That shit's hard, so automate it. 1214
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Here's a slightly expanded version of my earlier thread on the ridiculous "It's okay to use AI to get started" story that's so popular in higher ed discourse on research education these days.davidjameshudson.caNo, it’s not “okay to use it to get started” - David James HudsonThe “It’s okay to use it to get started” story is fast becoming a trope in higher ed discourse on the relationship of AI commercial products like ChatGPT to research education. And it’s irritating the... 1105
Reposted by David James HudsonNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Why is Labour withholding this report about ecosystem collapse…?novaramedia.comZack Polanski Demands Full Release of Report Warning of Ecosystem CollapseZack Polanski is calling on the government to publish the full, unredacted version of a report outlining how ecosystem collapse will plunge Britain into a national security crisis. 524069
Reposted by David James HudsonLisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.  329252975777
Reposted by David James HudsonKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026The media has collectively lost its mind over this guy. I mean, it was already bad. But at this point, they're actively assisting and empowering tech's hunger for fossil fuels by boosting this absolute grifter 38121
Reposted by David James HudsonKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 181286593
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There's a piece to be written about the trope of stress in AI marketing. You are stressed. AI will do your work for you. That -- hahahaha -- that will mean -- hahaha -- that will mean you will --- hahahaha -- that will mean you have less work! 210
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Or do those who are articulating these "it's okay to use it for brainstorming" narratives genuinely believe that these practices don't have substantive educational value? 230
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026So does the concern about learning lost through the use of genAI products not extend to the kinds of learning embedded in these kinds of practices of "getting started"? 120
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026None of this is earth shattering. None. I imagine that these are incredibly common and conscious practices in the work of instruction librarians and other educators all over the place. I imagine we all bring these things into our teaching because we think they bring important learning with them. 141
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026(The practice of summarizing a source falls outside the scope of what I teach, but I take it as a given that it integrates, among other things, exercises of critical reading and contextualization) 110
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And as we are doing so, we talk about the practice of navigating the political, analytical, and ethical dimensions of language, about the tension between words for your searching and words for your writing. 111
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We explore the practice of identifying keywords for searches through a similar lens, situating it as a process of attending to the ways in which a phenomenon is and isn't being framed. 120
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026As we are doing so, we take the time to underscore the value of imagination in research--the utility of replacing "What are primary sources related to EVENT?" with "Maybe EVENT was covered in the local newspapers?" and "Maybe there were posters advertising EVENT?" 110
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We also talk about and practice the process of brainstorming potential topics as a means of actively considering what *might* be conceivable rather than only what definitely *is.* And we take the time to explore the logic behind these conceivable research directions: "Maybe .... because ..." 120
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We apply similar kinds of strategies to the challenge of refining an existing research question and that of articulating the scope of a project. 110
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We also focus on the relationship between different sorts of questions. "What happened during this event?", "Where and where did this event take place?", "What other significant events were happening in the same time and the same place?" and so on. 120
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We also use these basic questions as a means of specifically identifying what you don't know. And we talk about the practical value of articulating basic gaps in knowledge with as much specificity as possible, the value of having smaller questions to pursue as a means of getting started. 140
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We talk about and practice asking basic who-what-when-where-why-how questions as means of facilitating this initial work of identifying existing knowledge. 120
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We talk about the intellectual and emotional value of surfacing, honouring, and qualifying what you already know and/or what you already assume about a subject, even if that subject seems overwhelmingly unfamiliar. 130
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We talk about what context means, about what it means to contextualize something. 130
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And it's precisely these kinds of practices that the students with whom I work tend to struggle with the most, which is why I dedicate a good chunk of class time to exploring techniques for addressing them. 140
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The "It's okay to use it for brainstorming" story seemingly abandons the idea that there is crucial learning embedded in these practices. 161
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Inaccuracy. Lost learning. Yeah, those are good reasons. But do they not also apply to the processes of getting started with a new topic, brainstorming ideas, refining your topic, identifying keywords, and summarizing readings? 161
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's frequently also noted that if you are using genAI products to automate your searches, your source evaluation, and the production of your paper, then you are missing the learning that is embedded in these processes. 151
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026But these stories often also note that these products can be wrong, so you shouldn't trust them to do the substantive bits of your work, the bits of your work that are important. You should think about the consequences of inaccurate information. 130
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Another part of it seems like it's rooted in the reduction of AI literacy to academic integrity and the reduction of integrity to "follow the damn rules": Using genAI to do the "important" work of doing your searching, evaluating your sources, and writing your paper is "cheating." 140
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is the assumption that "they" all use it, "they" all want to use it, so the best we can do is meet them half way by splitting use into the columns "appropriate" and "inappropriate." 150
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Part of what irritates me about "it's fine to use it for brainstorming" is that it feels like it's a bit of a capitulation to the narrative that AI is inevitable. 1130
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026(I mean, beyond the more general "it's fine to use genAI" and the utter lack of criticality that tends to accompany such assertions) 150
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This narrative is all over academic library libguides, university AI policies, and other documents in higher ed. I've been trying to get my head around why this irritates me so much. 140
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Such "appropriate" uses are typically contrasted with "inappropriate" uses: don't use it to do the actual lit searching, to evaluate the results, or to write the paper. 250
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The story goes that it's fine to use genAI text-generators in research to brainstorm ideas, refine topics, identify keywords for searches, and summarize readings. 140
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Why the "It's okay to use it to get started" story about AI consumer products in research education bugs the hell out of me: 🧵 1206
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I'd love to see those slides if you ever feel you're open to sharing them! 110
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026There are a gazillion others who say the same thing. But it seems like we always need to counter the dominant construction of "AI" as "tool" or "technology," which erases structural context and consequences. 020
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026*When I say "AI," I'm referring to the sociopolitical project by which AI commercial products are being forcibly installed and normalized as a visible, desirable, and inevitable part of virtually all aspects of our lives. 121
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026But still, it feels so very pronounced right now, the violence of AI*, its intensification of the erosion of the conditions that support teaching-learning. So I'm still especially resentful right now. What a wonderful way to start the school year. 230
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026As has been said over and again, AI* is an expression of how the social order is structured, not an aberration. 120
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026It's not like the classroom, the library, and the university were previously garbage-fire free spaces. It's not like there wasn't evidence of structural violence to contend with before--stuff I wish I didn't have to deal with. 140
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Or talking about the relationship between research, community, agency, and help-seeking. Or telling them basic stuff like how to get in touch with me and where the damn library is. 120
David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I'd much rather not have the sudden appearance of this new, overwhelming garbage fire. I'd much rather spend time, for example, supporting students' learning of strategies for countering overwhelm when faced with a new topic, or facilitating a critical discussion of peer review conventions. 150