🤖 Get Ready for AI-First Products
The first wave of AI apps gave us chatbots – conversational interfaces with an AI model. In the second wave, familiar tools or functions are integrating AI; i.e., becoming “AI-enabled”. The third wave will be natively AI, or “AI-first”. These will take advantage of AI engines but will go beyond conversation. Imagine apps that can recode themselves in response to each user…
Learn More: Introducing CoreAI – Platform and Tools – The Official Microsoft Blog
🤔 AI “Literacy” is the Wrong Phrase. Use AI “Thinking” Instead.
“Literacy” is a concept tied to a certain way of thinking, and AI is disrupting that way of thinking. That’s the argument this author is making. Only by identifying what this might be can we hope to develop shared guidelines for ethical practice.
😢 Is What We, As Educators, Are Feeling… Grief?
AI and its role in higher education is a divisive topic. It creates some strong feelings. In this short conference paper, the authors propose we ask if these reflect us going through the stages of grief. Their review of the literature showed evidence of each stage.
Learn More: D. Otto, C. Kleinesper. Generative AI in Education: The Five Stages of Grief. ITED2025.
💬 Students See the Differences That Are Important Between Peers and AI When It Comes to Feedback
Feedback from AI is helpful and quick. Feedback from peers is constructive, thoughtful, insightful.