Jon Jackson

qmul.ac.ukBritish Conference of Undergraduate Research 2027 - Queen Mary University of London

British Conference of Undergraduate Research 2027 happening at @qmul.bsky.social 22nd - 23rd April, 2027. Great opportunity for students wanting to share their work. #AcademicSky www.qmul.ac.uk/british-conf...

nybooks.comTalk to It | James GleickThis is the chatbots’ original sin: they are programmed to deceive us.

Talk to It by James Gleick @nybooks.com “This is the chatbots’ original sin: they are programmed to deceive us” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

jonathanmjackson.substack.comA draft proposal for an “evidence ecology” in higher education assessment designA potential framework for operationalising learner-centred, process-oriented assessment design.

Reading a lot on assessment validity and GenAI in HE at the moment 👇 Koretsky, M.D., Ding, M., Chiu, T.K.F., Hallström, J., Li, Y., 2026. The shifting landscape of assessment in STEM education in the age of generative AI. IJ STEM Ed 13, 59, s40594-026-00648–5. doi.org/10.1186/s405...

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doi.orgValidity matters more than cheatingCheating attracts a significant amount of attention in conversations about assessment, and with good reason: if students cheat, we cannot be sure they have met the learning outcomes of their course...

Dawson, P., Bearman, M., Dollinger, M., Boud, D., 2024. Validity matters more than cheating. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 49, 1005–1016. doi.org/10.1080/0260...

doi.org‘Where’s the line? It’s an absurd line’: towards a framework for acceptable uses of AI in assessmentAs higher education grapples with ensuring assessment validity in an increasingly AI-populated time, institutions and educators are working to establish appropriate boundaries for AI use. However, ...

Corbin, T., Dawson, P., Nicola-Richmond, K., Partridge, H., 2025. ‘Where’s the line? It’s an absurd line’: towards a framework for acceptable uses of AI in assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 50, 705–717. doi.org/10.1080/0260...

doi.org<em>British Journal of Educational Technology</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online LibraryGenerative AI (hereinafter GenAI) technology, such as ChatGPT, is already influencing the higher education sector. In this work, we focused on the impact of GenAI on the academic integrity of assess.....

Kofinas, A.K., Tsay, C.H., Pike, D., 2025. The impact of generative AI on academic integrity of authentic assessments within a higher education context. Brit J Educational Tech 56, 2522–2549. doi.org/10.1111/bjet...

A draft proposal for an "evidence ecology" in higher education assessment design A potential framework for operationalising learner-centred, process-oriented assessment design. #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

lnkd.in#genai #github #coding #softwareengineering #ai | Jon JacksonPaying homage to Mistral’s latest model “Le Chonk” (Mistral Large 4), I got carried away and built a full video creation pipeline which generates video from a JSON spec. The video below was fully gen...

Paying homage to Mistral’s latest model “Le Chonk” (Mistral Large 4), I got carried away and built a full video creation pipeline which generates video from a JSON spec. lnkd.in/p/eWG5GZys #Mistral #GenAI

All hail Le Chonk

AI generated or real?

lnkd.in#aied #highereducation #assessment #genai | Jon JacksonBlanket AI disclosure statements or checklists in higher education assessments are an attempt at controlling what is uncontrollable. A way of signalling security or validity when there is none (or v...

economist.comHow effective altruism conquered the worldAnd how the 21st century’s most important social movement might yet end it

It’s all a bit (very) messed up “How effective altruism conquered the world” [Gift link] economist.com/internationa...

Thinking about resurrecting my YouTube channel 🤔

Today I expanded my students minds by showing them that yes you can include emojis in git commit messages. My work here is done 😎

New conference paper 👇 Process-Oriented Collaborative Essays: Empowering Undergraduate Students Through Assessment Redesign in the Age of Generative AI doi.org/10.22492/iss... #AcademicSky

eventbrite.co.ukQMUL AI in Education Symposium: Intelligence, and Inclusion, ReimaginedHow can educators and students connect, learn and flourish in an AI-enabled university?

See you there? QMUL AI in Education Symposium: Intelligence, and Inclusion, Reimagined Wednesday 11 November • 10 AM - 1 PM @qmul.bsky.social #AIEd #Event #London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qmul-ai-in...

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oh no I just sent Mistral Code into a psychotic spiral

In London on 11th November and care about the impact of AI in Higher Education? Come along! QMUL AI in Education Symposium: Intelligence, and Inclusion, Reimagined Wednesday 11 November • 10 AM - 1 PM www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qmul-ai-in...

The absolute worst thing we could do is to ask students to evidence all the ways they used AI on all assessments as a blanket requirement. Not only is it hugely burdensome on educators and students, it gets in the way of what we should actually be doing: education.

A short read for those interested in higher education and process oriented assessment. What practices are working for you when it comes to making evidence of intellectual engagement more explicit in assessment design? #AcademicSky #AIEd #HE jonathanmjackson.substack.com/p/process-or...

One from the archives. Interviewed for the TELT magazine at @qmul.bsky.social www.qmul.ac.uk/technology-e...

Check out Mark Carrigan’s short but powerful book: The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal We have a lot of thoughts in common manchester.pressbooks.pub/the-ai-crisi...

Happy Friday, for those who celebrate.

lnkd.inCover | Jon JacksonRidiculously giddy to have been referenced in Mark’s short book along with so many other giants in the field. No, I’m not worthy. I may need a moment 🥹 And yes, we need to confront the challenge of...

Ridiculously giddy to have been referenced in Mark’s short book along with so many other giants in the field. No, I’m not worthy. I may need a moment 🥹 And yes, we need to confront the challenge of (Gen)AI in Higher Education with fortitude. lnkd.in/p/eG7sia2p

So… the new surveillance Tamagotchi from Meta. What’s up with THAT?

I’m teaching a large group of final year software / data students this semester so I might talk to them about this and get their thoughts. It’s an AI / innovation module so we will be engaging with lots of different types of “AI”.

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I’m not sure use or non-use (of GenAI) has a “right” answer, apart from in some extreme cases. It differs between individuals, and we don’t even know the long term effects.

Can you assess a student’s agency or self-actualisation? That’s what I’m trying to cultivate by means of meaningful (and potentially transformative) project work where students have to become comfortable with uncertainty. Can that be assessed?

I like to give them lots of choice, and make this an explicit part of their learning journey. They should be making choices about what to do and how to do it, including whether to use GenAI or not but we’re not assessing this specifically.

Any critical AI literacy efforts need to help students and staff navigate these false affordances of GenAI and explore potentially useful but hidden affordances accessible through different prompting techniques. It should also help them be able to decide proactively when not to use GenAI.

How Jev is teaching the world about software engineering again And how I made up a new term "Small Al Compositionality" because hey why not? jonathanmjackson.substack.com/p/how-jev-is...

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MIT Press

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21 Sept

"Archiving Machines" and "The Patina of Distrust" are co-winners of this year's Best Information Science Book Award from ASIS&T! We're proud to be able to provide both of these books #openaccess. Congratulations authors!

20 Sept

Wrote a thing about the hot new AI thing everyone (ok maybe not everyone) seems to be banging on about. It’s mildly spicy so please enjoy with a cool drink… 😌 jonathanmjackson.substack.com/p/how-jev-is...

19 Sept

What are we really assessing when Al can polish writing?

16 Sept

Recent article on Advance HE 👀 Supporting students to reclaim their agency through co-creation in a world with Generative AI Read the full article here: advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

16 Sept

Forgot to tag @advancehe.bsky.social !

substack.comSave the essay! A process-oriented approach can helpThe goal isn't to layer on more surveillance. It's to shift what evidence we look at as educators.

15 Sept

Save the essay! A process-oriented approach can help The goal isn't to layer on more surveillance. It's to shift what evidence we look at as educators. #AcademicSky #AIEd substack.com/home/post/p-...

link.springer.comGuarded adoption of generative AI in higher education: high-achieving students, successful-student identity, and epistemic agency in a single-university mixed-methods survey - International Journal of...Generative artificial intelligence is becoming part of university learning, but students do not engage with it uniformly. This mixed-methods survey of students at one Australian university examined wh...

13 Sept

Recent paper #AcademicSky Guarded adoption of generative AI in higher education: high-achieving students, successful-student identity, and epistemic agency in a single-university mixed-methods survey #GenAI #LLMs @springernature.com link.springer.com/article/10.1...

12 Sept

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

Imagine you flip a coin and if it turns up heads, a nuclear missile is launched. If it turns up tales, it does nothing. If the nuke is launched, would you say the coin has gone rogue?

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Now imagine a large language model spits out a 0 or 1 which dictates whether a nuke is launched. If the nuke is launched, would you say the large language model went rogue?

According to media hype and big tech marketing campaigns, yes apparently it definitely-obviously-absolutely-give-us-your-money-now went rogue. 🫠

Imagine you flip a coin and if it turns up heads, a nuclear missile is launched. If it turns up tales, it does nothing. If the nuke is launched, would you say the coin has gone rogue?

Now imagine flipping a billion coins. Their combined outcomes are tied to whether the nuke is launched. If the nuke is launched, would you say the coins went rogue?