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Dwayne Ripley

@dwayneripley.bsky.social
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Creating and translating learning sciences knowledge. PhD in design for interdisciplinary education. Researches epistemic cognition, educational technology, and design knowledge. ORCID: 0000-0002-7812-0614

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thoughtful synthesis of current thinking around how #GenAI can affect several aspects of adolescent development including relationships, identity and well-being, and autonomy and achievement. Excellent recommendations for future research, design, and policy. doi.org/10.1177/1745...
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Coming of Age With Generative Artificial Intelligence: The High Stakes of Automating Adolescent Development - Anne J. Maheux, Chelly Maes, 2026
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming the context in which adolescents develop, presenting both opportunities and risks. Adolescenc...
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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 16/09/2026
A lawsuit has been filed against Padlet, alleging they share student data in real time to 160+ third parties (including data brokers, Meta, and Google). Padlet is heavily used in K-12 as well as higher education with students who have no choice. Read the complaint: drive.google.com/file/d/1OGPe...
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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New blog post by Man Ho Adrian Lam! 🚨 "What are students expected to know and demonstrate to succeed in interdisciplinary education?" #HigherEducation #Interdisciplinary teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/l...
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Let’s not forget knowledge in interdisciplinary education!
Tara Winstead on Pexels.com In undergraduate education today, interdisciplinarity is often promoted as a way to broaden students’ academic perspectives and develop their intellectual, social, and i…
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Peter Goodyear @petergoodyear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Students are not disengaged, they are adapting to a thinner university
For Fredrick Agboma and Andrew Doyle, the question isn't whether students are less committed, but what culture they're asked to inhabit
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"[E]ducation fiction invites researchers not only to analyse what is, but also to explore what could be, and to ask who decides: whose classrooms, whose futures, whose exclusions are treated as settled," write Stefan Hrastinksi, @eam0.bsky.social, & Lina Rahm Excited for this new LMT special issue:
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Education fiction
Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2026)
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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Alpha School has nothing to do with AI. It is a Spartan deathcult to abuse young people
Through Bootcamp, failure becomes common rather than shameful, and students learn to recover faster, figure out what they need to change, and keep going without it affecting their sense of self. T
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We spent thousands of years trying to produce enough food, shelter and energy for everyone. We finally became capable of doing it. Then we invented shareholders.
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 30/08/2026
very interesting and worrisome. "Each decision can be individually rational: Google changes a search parameter, OpenAI rebalances the sources its chatbot retrieves. Together, they are reshaping a public epistemic infrastructure that nobody outside the companies can meaningfully inspect or contest."
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Has a commercial edtech company or school chain ever had the press attention of Alpha School? Getting in Scientific American seems like a big win for Alpha School PR. Reckon it's also a clear sign of its strategy to claim *scientific* legitimacy. www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...
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Alpha School wants AI to teach a billion kids. Should it?
The fast-growing private-school network is handing much of instruction over to artificial intelligence. Researchers say the science is far from settled
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Great overview of how the learning sciences evolved from early AI work and how it informs #GenAI work today! keithsawyer.substack.com/p/how-to-cre...
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How to Create a Science
When new ideas about AI and learning created the learning sciences
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
💥New | Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? ✍️ @gemmaderrick.bsky.social Amy Devenney and Lizzie Ville #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #EvidenceBasedPolicy
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Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? - LSE Impact
Despite universities’ important role as evidence-producing organisations, they rarely draw upon research evidence for internal decision making, why?
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026
Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]
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Meat proxy
A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 18/08/2026
Free yourself from prying eyes on your AI chats. Ask Duck.ai, our private and optional AI chatbot.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What does effective searching and vetting of sources look like in the modern information landscape? Welp, Allen and colleagues have theorized this by integrating models of epistemic cognition, metacognition, algorithmic awareness, and justice . Could it be more timely?!? doi.org/10.1080/0046...
Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Educational Psychologist" titled "A multidimensional framework for student searching in algorithmically curated information environments."
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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 13/08/2026
Oh damn it is way worse. Turnitin was trying to make instructors *personally liable* for mistakes made by its faulty AI detector. The entire FAQ is eye-popping. If you're a journalist, download a copy and consider writing about academic surveillance software.. view-su2.highspot.com/viewer/40018...
Screenshot of Turnitin guidance titled “Q23: Am I personally liable for decisions based on a Service Report?” It states that Turnitin disclaims liability for decisions made in reliance on Service Reports and that instructors are “solely and independently responsible” for decisions about students, including placement, performance, academic misconduct, or Service Report contents. Turnitin logo appears at bottom right.
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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When Shel Silverstein predicted AI
HOMEWORK MACHINE
The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine, Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen.
Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime, Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds time, Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be.
Here it is-"nine plus four?" and the answer is "three."
Three?
Oh me . ..
I guess it's not as perfect As I thought it would be.
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Peter Goodyear @petergoodyear.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Really pleased to see this new book on Feedback Practices at Work is now published - what's more it's open access. Many congrats to Liz Molloy & Dave Boud for making this possible. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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Feedback Practices at Work | Maximising Student Learning on Placements
Bringing together the work of experts from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, this book provides the evidence and guidance required to improve feedback practices
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Remember that meta-study of ChatGPT effects on learning that got retracted by SpringerNature recently? Here's a new paper showing why it and others like it can't be trusted due to serious issues with the underlying literature. Bluntly put, they're meta-reviews of junk science doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Got a little angry at the end of my latest blog post. Software ate the world, and then finance ate the software industry, and now here we are. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/new-post-6...
One final thought.... zoom out far enough, and the history of the digital future looks something like this:
First, Silicon Valley built hardware that got smaller and faster and cheaper and better.
Then, Silicon Valley built software that became the mediating layer of the global economy.
And then, the finance industry ate the software industry. Every tech company today is a finance company.
Software ate the world, and then finance ate software, and now here we are.
It isn't quite as simple as "after the Great Financial Crisis, all the finance guys moved to Silicon Valley so they could keep doing the same bullshit without all the regulatory scrutiny." But that's a close-enough approximation of recent history.
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.
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tante @tante.cc · 10/06/2026
A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 04/06/2026
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AI is being built into hiring, housing, medicine, courts, classrooms-the institutions social science has spent more than a century studying. Social science didn't invent AI, but the social worlds AI is trained on, sold into, and reshaping-those are ours. The future of AI is a social science problem.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If big tech and edtech firms are treating schools as public testbeds and trial sites for their AI technologies, then are they going to make the data available for independent analysis? Because there are real risks here of marking their own homework.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people 3 people are producing most toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive and amplified by engagement based algorithms. The other 97 quiet voices disappear thenoisyroom.com
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
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Leon Furze @leonfurze.com · 06/05/2026
Once you've discovered the features of AI, it's time to put the technology to work and transfer your skills across domains. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
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IYKYK Part 4: From Knowing to Doing
So far in this series I've argued that GenAI has a discoverability problem, shared some examples that broke my own mental model, and explored how access and equity shape who gets to discover what. In this post I'll talk about what happens after discovery, because knowing that a capability exists and being able to use it are very different things...
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 01/05/2026
Student Success | Teaching AI by Doing, Not Studying A new library-based initiative at the University of Virginia embeds hands-on AI learning and workforce skills across disciplines. bit.ly/4tMR7f5 #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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Ilya Shabanov @effortlessacademic.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Notion has 100 million users. For academic research, it's the wrong choice. Here's why Obsidian wins — and when Notion actually makes sense.
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Notion vs Obsidian: What's the Best Note-Taking Tool for Research? - The Effortless Academic
Literature Review, AI Tools in academia, efficient note taking based on Zettelkasten
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Dwayne Ripley @dwayneripley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Science for the win!
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 24/04/2026
OK this piece by @reckless.bsky.social about why AI is unpopular among most people (anyone who's not inflicted with "software brain") is just solid gold from start to finish
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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This week patter has been reading about knowledge production as place making patthomson.net/2026/04/20/p...
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placemaking and the academic writer
I’ve just read a paper about epistemic placemaking. Epistemic placemaking is equipping and arranging places for knowledge work. The paper suggests that students might actively co-design t…
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Dwayne Ripley @dwayneripley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
An important paper.
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 04/04/2026
Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief. An Essay by Andrew Deming
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Frank Lloyd Wright as a mirror of the American condition | Aeon Essays
Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Ok, so I knew it would be an anger-inducing and triggering watch, but OMG. Bravo ABC Four Corners, and the brave souls that spoke out on the show. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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Campus Chaos
Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.
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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities, wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs, and undermining the sector's principles of public good." - www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... thx @onslies.bsky.social for the link!
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As universities cut courses, spending on consultants and contractors nears $2b
Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.
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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Tiny toot on the horn blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/three...
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CRADLE Blog: Three new CRADLE Fellowships for 2026!
We are pleased to announce that three CRADLE Fellowships have been awarded for 2026. Congratulations and welcome to Associate Professor Katrina Clifford, Dr Colin Simpson and Associate Professor Ma…
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Peter Goodyear @petergoodyear.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
New publication. Open access. Early & mid career researchers navigating participation in #interdisciplinary research. doi.org/10.1080/0307...
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Early- and mid-career researchers’ agency in pursuing interdisciplinary careers: institutional support and hindrances
Interdisciplinarity has been identified as central to improving research impact and addressing complex problems, locally and globally. An interdisciplinary career is not, however, a simple proposit...
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I avoid being negative about other people's research on here. It just isn't helpful. But I will say: it's past time we be very skeptical of studies of relations between self-regulated learning and performance that involve nothing but self-report measures. There's just too much risk of bias.
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a woman wearing glasses and a black hat says i have doubts .
ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a black hat says i have doubts .
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...
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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
International Women’s Day is a good moment to recognize the many women whose work, mentorship, and leadership shape science and academia, despite many structural barriers. I'm grateful for the colleagues, collaborators, and students I get to learn from every day.
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 05/03/2026
Opinion | Beyond the 2 Cultures Design is higher education’s missing foundation. By Joseph Squier bit.ly/4734YVh #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
A brightly colored illustration of a human head, filled with icons suggesting ideas and creativity, such as a lightbulb, a pencil, a gear and a jigsaw puzzle piece.
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Leon Furze @leonfurze.com · 28/02/2026
New post: Expert Signals. I've been thinking about what human experts actually do that AI can't, drawing on James C. Scott's distinction between techne and metis. Read more... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
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Expert Signals: Why Human Expertise Matters More Than Ever
AI excels at codifiable knowledge but can't transmit the situated, embodied expertise that makes human experts irreplaceable. Introducing expert signals.
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