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Single-Session Interventions for Mental Health Problems: Umbrella Review www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Recent example: using new online mental health tool just once boosts teenagers' hope and emotional well-being medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04... Tool: unlockwellbeing.org.uk #MentalHealth
In addition to expecting more phishing/hacking attacks in the future, #CanvasLMS schools should expect the cost of the LMS to jump sharply, now that Instructure paid the ransom and are being sued by dozens of schools: www.pcmag.com/news/canvas-... & are owned by private equity (KKR)
Doug Holton@edtechdev.bsky.socialI'd recommend faculty backup their #CanvasLMS gradebook community.instructure.com/en/kb/articl... & export student submissions for assignments not yet graded community.instructure.com/en/kb/articl... Be prepared for an increased amount of phishing emails in the future: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
I'd recommend faculty backup their #CanvasLMS gradebook community.instructure.com/en/kb/articl... & export student submissions for assignments not yet graded community.instructure.com/en/kb/articl... Be prepared for an increased amount of phishing emails in the future: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
Examples of self-reported measures not correlated w/more objective measures * #AILiteracy arxiv.org/abs/2601.06101 * #ProfDev academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... * #AI offloading www.goedel.io/p/the-machin... * #Teaching www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... * #Learning link.springer.com/article/10.1... #EdDev
Designing a mobile chatbot-based learning journaling system for intrinsic motivation and engagement link.springer.com/article/10.1... #AIEd #Education #EdTech
The Long Push To Blame Systemic Problems On Individuals www.sciencefriday.com/articles/its...
Equitable Group Work in Undergraduate Biology Courses: Leveraging a Complex Instruction Framework to Identify Pedagogical Strategies www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/... #Teaching #EdDev #STEMeducation
The DOJ has delayed its accessibility deadline (April 24) by 1 year (2027): www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... The free PAVE tool for fixing PDF accessibility has been upgraded to 2.0: pave-pdf.org Open weight AI PDF OCR models are improving: huggingface.co/spaces?categ... #accessibility #a11y
SafeTutors: Benchmarking Pedagogical Safety in AI Tutoring Systems arxiv.org/abs/2603.17373 "risk is answer over-disclosure, misconception reinforcement, and the abdication of scaffolding" "multi-turn dialogue worsens behavior, with pedagogical failures rising from 17.7% to 77.8%." #AIEd #EdTech
ISD-Agent-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-based Instructional Design Agents arxiv.org/abs/2602.10620 Code & data: github.com/codingchild2... Also: Pedagogy-R1: Pedagogical Reasoning Model and Educational Benchmark dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #AIEd #LearningDesign #EdTech
Agentic Workflows in Education arxiv.org/abs/2504.200... Examples: * DeepTutor github.com/HKUDS/DeepTu... * OpenMAIC github.com/THU-MAIC/Ope... * liacript github.com/LiaScript/te... * Claude skills github.com/GarethMannin... github.com/narosemena/m... * Claw-ED github.com/SirhanMacx/C... #AIEd
"AI petting zoo" resources for instructors: liascript.github.io/course/?http... #EdTech #AIEd #EdDev
Effective #teaching is difficult, counter-intuitive, & not something you can master from the Internet. So it's not surprising that AI is pretty bad at it & bad at evaluating it: arxiv.org/abs/2603.00883 Podcast summary: drive.google.com/file/d/1n09D... More: mastodon.social/@dougholton/... #AIEd
Summary of efforts to reform how college teaching is evaluated engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/a-practica... See TEval for some best practices: teval.net But also these references on bias in student evaluations of teaching: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #EdDev #Teaching #HigherEd
A Scalable, Theory-Based Intervention to Influence Teachers' Student Engagement Practices Improves Academic Performance in a State-Wide Sample www.researchgate.net/publication/... More about FUSE (Fellowship Using the Science of Engagement): fuse.prc.utexas.edu #EdDev #EdPsy #Teaching
AI Literacy Across the Curriculum edtechdev.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/a... Mastering #AILiteracy or indeed any literacy is not something that can be done in a single lesson or module, but is better distributed throughout students’ education (like Writing Across the Curriculum) #AIEd #EdDev #EdTech
Faculty Development and GenAI Playbook: Evidence-based Best Practices www.everylearnereverywhere.org/resources/fa... #EdDev #AIEd