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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu)

@smprof.bsky.social
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Education leader designing immersive AI learning experiences. Shaping the future of instruction. Keynote speaker. Chair EDUCAUSE SSA Steering Committee. Accessibility Policy Committee. Reader & learner. University of Illinois Chicago UIC. More on LinkedIn

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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 20h
Nobody Misses Being Lost. What GPS teaches faculty about AI and critical thinking. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Nobody Misses Being Lost
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The AI Audit: 5 steps to verify any AI output. Assumptions, Sources, Counter-Evidence, Auditing, Cross-Model check. Teach students to evaluate, not just generate. 🔍 #Education #AIEDU
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The AI Audit: Five Steps to Verify Any AI Output
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MIT research: heavy AI reliance weakens neural connectivity. Cognitive atrophy is real. The answer is not banning AI. It is designing learning that uses AI to increase challenge. 🧠⚠️ #Education #AIEDU
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Cognitive Atrophy: When AI Does the Thinking For You
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A 19-item surgical checklist cut deaths 47%. AI tools in education work the same way: they do not replace expertise, they protect it. The checklist lesson. ✅ #Education #AIEDU
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What a Surgical Checklist Teaches Us About AI in Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The 56% Premium for Workers with Advanced AI Skills. Why the AI economy is paying for judgment, not degrees. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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The 56% Premium for Workers with Advanced AI Skills
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Voice Is Not Vocabulary: Part 2 of 3. Part 1 found the snap: the bodily signal that tells a writer a piece is working. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Voice Is Not Vocabulary
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''FLUFF, SPARK, and Cognitive Triage'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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FLUFF, SPARK, and Cognitive Triage
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection: What students actually do with AI when no one is grading them on it. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Metacognitive Laziness vs. Productive Struggle: Where Is the Line?'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Metacognitive Laziness vs. Productive Struggle: Where Is the Line?
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Hubris of Kings, Dictators, and Tech CEOs Part 4 of 6. From Ancient Greek tragedy to Wuxi Suntech and June 1941, how overconfidence destroys the ability to change course.
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The Hubris of Kings, Dictators, and Tech CEOs
Part 4 of 6. From Ancient Greek tragedy to Wuxi Suntech and June 1941, how overconfidence destroys the ability to change course.
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dismantling the Assembly-Line University Part 5 of 6. Why rote credentialing is obsolete, and what K-12 and higher education have to become instead.
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Dismantling the Assembly-Line University
Part 5 of 6. Why rote credentialing is obsolete, and what K-12 and higher education have to become instead.
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The learn-it-all does better than the know-it-all. Four frameworks for educators who want to stay relevant, not just knowledgeable. On Amazon now. 🎓 #Education #AIEDU
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The Learn-It-All Does Better Than the Know-It-All
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you would not expect good output from AI with a vague prompt, why expect it from students? Scaffolding is not spoon-feeding. It is good instructional design. 🏗️ #Education #AIEDU
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Scaffolding Is Not Spoon-Feeding
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Cognitive Obesity: The Next Public Health Crisis Higher Ed Won't See Coming'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Cognitive Obesity: The Next Public Health Crisis Higher Ed Won't See Coming
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The AI You're Talking To Is a Character. Design Your Courses Accordingly.. We aren't really conversing with a language model, we're conversing with a character it's writing. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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The AI You're Talking To Is a Character. Design Your Courses Accordingly.
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The AI You're Talking To Is a Character. Design Your Courses Accordingly.: We aren't really conversing with a language model, we're conversing with a character it's writing. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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The AI You're Talking To Is a Character. Design Your Courses Accordingly.
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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The new Stakhanovites: From Factory Bells to Algorithmic Discipline
Part 2 of 6. How AI management recreates 19th-century factory surveillance and Soviet quota dynamics in digital work.
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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The Silicon Nomenklatura and Cloud Feudalism
Part 3 of 6. How Big Tech hijacks emancipatory technology narratives and geopolitical panic to build digital fiefdoms.
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Your Classroom as the IQ Gym. The next mass institution in American education is being prototyped right now by instructors. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Your Classroom as the IQ Gym
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Taste Is Not Talent: Why writing well is now a matter of rewriting and appraising, not fluency. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Taste Is Not Talent
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cognitive capitalism can be defined as a stage of capitalism in which the accumulation of wealth depends on the control of knowledge, data, and networked computation rather than on the ownership of factor. thelearnitall.substack.com/p/the-digita...
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The Digital Engels’ Pause
Part 1 of 6. Why productivity growth isn't reaching your paycheck, and why the entry-level job market will be a mess for a while.
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Higher productivity has a long-term cost to the workers and creates industrial imbalance. thelearnitall.substack.com/p/the-new-st...
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The new Stakhanovites: From Factory Bells to Algorithmic Discipline
Part 2 of 6. How AI management recreates 19th-century factory surveillance and Soviet quota dynamics in digital work.
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Metacognitive Laziness vs. Productive Struggle: Where Is the Line?: Beware of metacognitive laziness: effects of generative AI on learning motivation, processes, and performance. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Metacognitive Laziness vs. Productive Struggle: Where Is the Line?
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
AI predicts likely words, it does not retrieve facts. It is a probability engine, not a calculator. Understanding this changes how you prompt, evaluate, and teach. 🎰 #Education #AIEDU
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AI Is a Probability Engine, Not a Calculator
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Writing Energy is Real: What Your Body Knows Before You Do.'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Writing Energy is Real: What Your Body Knows Before You Do.
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Voice Is Not Vocabulary'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Voice Is Not Vocabulary
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Why MIT's Brain Scans Should Change How You Grade'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Why MIT's Brain Scans Should Change How You Grade
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''The AI You're Talking To Is a Character. Design Your Courses Accordingly.'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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The AI You're Talking To Is a Character. Design Your Courses Accordingly.
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Horses, Not Replacements: The Infrastructure AI Advising Actually Needs'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Horses, Not Replacements: The Infrastructure AI Advising Actually Needs
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What Columbia Just Made the Rest of Higher Education Argue About: The fiduciary question hiding inside the AI integration debate. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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What Columbia Just Made the Rest of Higher Education Argue About
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you would not expect good output from AI with a vague prompt, why expect it from students? Scaffolding is not spoon-feeding. It is good instructional design. 🏗️ #Education #AIEDU
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Scaffolding Is Not Spoon-Feeding
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
4 Ways Agentic AI Will Reshape Higher Ed Work This episode explores how agentic AI capabilities could reshape teaching, learning, research, institutional work, and decision-making. youtu.be/w7hJDsaYFSc?...
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4 Ways Agentic AI Will Reshape Higher Ed Work | EDUCAUSE Exchange
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Writing Energy is Real: What Your Body Knows Before You Do.: Part 1 of 3 in a short series on where good writing comes from. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Writing Energy is Real: What Your Body Knows Before You Do.
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
AI in Education Is Four Things, Not One thelearnitall.substack.com/p/ai-in-educ...
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AI in Education Is Four Things, Not One
Why the integration debate keeps failing and the structural fix that may help
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Students: Your Writing Struggle Is Not a Verdict thelearnitall.substack.com/p/students-y...
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Students: Your Writing Struggle Is Not a Verdict
It’s a technology adoption problem. And you might be the one who builds the next tool.
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cognitive Obesity: The Next Public Health Crisis Higher Ed Won't See Coming: What the 1940s military's discovery about physical fitness should tell us about the next mass civic institution. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Cognitive Obesity: The Next Public Health Crisis Higher Ed Won't See Coming
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Voice Is Not Vocabulary. Part 2 of 3. Part 1 found the snap: the bodily signal that tells a writer a piece is working. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
thelearnitall.substack.com
Voice Is Not Vocabulary
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Taste Is Not Talent. Why writing well is now a matter of rewriting and appraising, not fluency. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Taste Is Not Talent
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If AI can write lectures and create assessments, what remains that is mine? Authenticity lies in judgment and curation, not manual execution. The chef analogy. 🎭 #Education #AIEDU
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The Authenticity Barrier: What Remains That Is Mine?
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My Experience Using Generative AI as Community College Student: A student's first-hand account of using generative AI in community college coursework. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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My Experience Using Generative AI as Community College Student
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What Columbia Just Made the Rest of Higher Education Argue About. The fiduciary question hiding inside the AI integration debate. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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What Columbia Just Made the Rest of Higher Education Argue About
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Horses, Not Replacements: The Infrastructure AI Advising Actually Needs. Horses' intelligence & power were useful, and artificial intelligence can be, too. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Horses, Not Replacements: The Infrastructure AI Advising Actually Needs
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Horses, Not Replacements: The Infrastructure AI Advising Actually Needs: Horses' intelligence & power were useful, and artificial intelligence can be, too. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Horses, Not Replacements: The Infrastructure AI Advising Actually Needs
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection. What students actually do with AI when no one is grading them on it. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Nobody Misses Being Lost: What GPS teaches faculty about AI and critical thinking. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Nobody Misses Being Lost
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Students: Your Writing Struggle Is Not a Verdict'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Students: Your Writing Struggle Is Not a Verdict
The AI Story for Education
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
You don't build muscle watching someone else lift. Using AI to write an essay = taking the elevator to the gym and leaving without exercising. AI should coach, not substitute. 🏋️ #Education #AIEDU
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The Cognitive Gym: AI as Coach, Not Substitute
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Inquiry in Action: What a Russell Group University Did That Community Colleges Should Copy. Twelve AI case studies, one open textbook, and a model worth stealing. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Inquiry in Action: What a Russell Group University Did That Community Colleges Should Copy
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thinking about AI in higher ed? ''Your Classroom as the IQ Gym'' is worth your time. theLearnItAll.substack.com #Education #AIEDU
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Your Classroom as the IQ Gym
The AI Story for Education
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