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Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Finally thank God what drives me most bugshit is this sense education institutions are uselessly incapable of dealing with AI. Only someone with no internal experience of how we've been dealing with this intellectually, practically and necessarily slowly could take this view. Terrible piece. /end
FOMO is a social construction of edtech consultants and AI companies. Actually, education does not need to catch up with AI because even if some find it useful, there are better and worse things to be educated about than how to use AI. 8/
Finally he gets something right. Yes, this is a strategic push by OpenAI into education. It's being integrated into our institutional infrastructures whether we like it or not. He likes it. I don't. I work in an dducstion institution. He does not. 6/
Please no, don't rely on OpenAI benchmarks. This is like students marking their own homework that was written by chstgpt. More seriously, AI benchmarks are a contemporary appeal to "trust in numbers" and their objectivity is anything but. 5/
No, GPT5 does not "know when to think". It's computing not thinking. Brains are not computers, and computers are not brains, even if we may cognize with tech. This is anthropomorphizing GPT5 as a thinking agent when it's just well-funded code and algorithms. 4/
GPT5 is not quite "AGI" as he hoped but it's still apparently going to transform how we all live, work and learn. Pure technological determinism,with the analytical bite of a press release being capitalized by an edtech consultant flogging gigs 2/
Sorry but this Forbes "contributor" piece about GPT5 and education is so egregious I'm going to have to have a go at it 1/
GPT-5 has been out, what, 5 or 6 minutes and the Forbes "contributor" guy is already telling all us educators to "wake up"?
Out of necessity to counter these crappy takes, I'm once again about to add a long reading list of actual research going back some years on AI in education 1/2
If the Forbes "contributor" guy actually fancies understanding AI in education beyond its press releases he could read any of this reading list. But I guess the consultancy gigs aren't there for how AI actually is in education 2/2 bsky.app/profile/benp...
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
GPT-5 has been out, what, 5 or 6 minutes and the Forbes "contributor" guy is already telling all us educators to "wake up"?
Out of necessity to counter these crappy takes, I'm once again about to add a long reading list of actual research going back some years on AI in education 1/2
Techno-eugenics seems to be all the rage with all the recent embryo IQ selection startups funded by venture capital, so I wrote up a piece about how this is connected to the recent rise of "educational genomics" codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e...
Photo by David Matos on Unsplash Two new genomics startups have released consumer services claiming to allow parents to screen and select embryos based on polygenic scores for IQ. Both are already …