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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Detection is not AI detection. Oral exams, public artifacts, peer review, process docs. Verify genuine engagement without unreliable AI detectors. 🔒 #Education #AIEDU

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The Analog Checkpoint: Verifying Genuine Engagement

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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Review Board: students submit their thesis to AI as a hostile review board, then defend and refine it. The AI dialogue IS the evidence of learning. Try gaming that. 📋 #Education #AIEDU

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The Review Board: An Assignment AI Cannot Game

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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

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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

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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

do muscles not ahrink, atrophy when not excerxised? With GPS we found new things to think about during travel and we don't get lost much.

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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 · 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

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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 · 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

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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.

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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

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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

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?

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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 · 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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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

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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 · 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

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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well, humans clean up their own waste too. But the concern about horse waste is not new. Just think about the city streets before cars were made affordable. Sometimes solution to waste is further innovation.

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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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