The Handbook for Teaching and Learning with #Jupyter—first draft is out! #Jupyter4Edu

To students everywhere: How can you learn and flourish with AI? I joined fellow educators to write this letter on using AI wisely. Our advice: Embrace the "productive struggle." True learning comes from effort, not ease. Read more: https://t.co/VNesTNeGdD #AIinEducation

I was reminded today of the suspect yet ubiquitous Bloom's Taxonomy, which often is used to rank "remembering" as somehow an inferior form of knowing, compared to, say, "applying." For the people in the back: you can't know what you can't remember! My fav takedown of Bloom here:

Vygotsky's 'Zone of Proximal Development' is perhaps the most misunderstood idea in education. It was never a teaching method but a metaphor for how teaching can pull thinking upward, from the everyday to the scientific. ⬇️ 🧵

🎥 Check out this short video demo—and I'm curious to hear your thoughts: "Comet Assistant in Jupyter: First Impression of the Agentic Browser" https://t.co/aV9KAzZmHR

The serious conversations about pedagogical approaches that harness AI productively rather than making human learning obsolete 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨! How are other educators navigating this?

We're facing a 𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲: motivating genuine learning when the tools have become this capable. Assignments should help critical thinking rather than just testing procedural knowledge. But the pace and the scale of the changes required are 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴.

What I witnessed: – The AI assistant analyzed the entire Jupyter notebook – Executed code cells autonomously – Wrote proper NumPy functions – Solved exercises completely – Even explained its reasoning All faster than students could read the problem statement.

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝘂𝗽𝘆𝘁𝗲𝗿 Friends, I watched an AI agent complete my students' coding exercises in real-time, and I'm shook 🤯 I tested @perplexity_ai's Comet browser on a Jupyter notebook with eigenvalue problems I assigned to my class…

This raises a critical question: Are certain genres of scholarly work—especially simple literature reviews or trend summaries—no longer valuable as original scholarship? It's time for academia to rethink what we consider "original." What do you think? #PeerReview

The paper's abstract promised a "review of key trends" in AI for engineering education. My reasoning for rejection: anyone can generate this with a single, well-crafted prompt. I tested it in Gemini 2.5 Pro, and the result was stunningly good and likely similar to the manuscript.

I just rejected a paper because it was pointless in the age of AI. For the first time, I recommended a manuscript be rejected because its content was so easily replicable by an AI model with deep research capabilities. #AcademicPublishing #AIinResearch

Bonus: In support of my statement in highlight 1), above, you need to see this video by Prof. Giordano Scarciotti of Imperial College London (posted May 10, 2025):

7) Beware wearables: Smart glasses can photograph exam questions and get live AI answers. Your syllabus needs wearables policies NOW. Bottom line: Students will use AI anyway. Let's redesign courses to help them thrive with it. Full piece: https://t.co/I5bBZJsbgv 8/8

6) The AI polarity: It can amplify learning OR create cognitive laziness. The difference is in how we design assignments and teach usage. How might you design for active AI use and promote user patterns that result in positive outcomes? 7/8

5) AI isn't just chat anymore. It's autonomous agents doing research, filling forms, completing coursework. One prompt = entire literature review. Will you change expectations of what students do in your class? 6/8

4) Entry-level jobs were down 15% in 2024, and unemployment for new grads hit 4-year high this year. Meanwhile, companies now require AI use in their teams, and are conducting AI-enabled job interviews. Are we preparing students for this? 5/8

3) Students perceive that they know AI better than faculty (they're probably right). This gap is creating stress and missed opportunities for everyone. What are you going to do about this? 4/8

2) ChatGPT now has "Study Mode" and Gemini has "Guided Learning"—both promise Socratic tutoring versus immediate answers. But will students choose the hard path when instant answers are a click away? (They can turn Study mode on/off!) 🤔 3/8

1) Google just gave all US college students free access to Gemini Pro. They just need an .edu email for verification. This means validity of your take-home assignments is cooked: Gemini can do complex work for students and they don't need to think… 2/8

🧵 Fall 2025 faculty: I wrote 7 pages on what you need to know about AI before classes start in a week or two—it's posted as PDF in the @Figshare service under CC-BY: link below… Here are the highlights: 1/8