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BackChannel Conversation Tools (Updated)

eNews: On the Loop

  • #9 – The Learning Loop: The #AI Algorithms of Well-Being #Health
    “Over the last few months, I’ve relied on Broccy and Avo,” I told my doctor during a few months ago during our visit together. “They are two Gen AI bots I made with a tool k…
  • #8 – The Learning Loop: The #Environmental Impact of Gen #AI
    Is your AI chatbot draining the local water supply? As artificial intelligence becomes integral to our lives, we must confront its staggering physical footprint. In this issue of The Learning Loop,…
  • #7 - The Learning Loop: AI and What Expertise Means Now
    This issue of The Learning Loop explores the massive infrastructure being built for AI, the shift toward “raw” authenticity in social media, and the rapid evolution of autonomous agents…
  • #6 - The Learning Loop: Real-Time Feedback Strategies
    In This Issue: Stop lecturing at your students and start learning with them. Transitioning to active learning can be daunting, but this issue provides the exact toolkit you need to make it seamless…
  • #7 - The Learning Loop: AI and What Expertise Means Now
    This issue of The Learning Loop explores the massive infrastructure being built for AI, the shift toward “raw” authenticity in social media, and the rapid evolution of autonomous agents…
  • #6 - The Learning Loop: Real-Time Feedback Strategies
    In This Issue: Stop lecturing at your students and start learning with them. Transitioning to active learning can be daunting, but this issue provides the exact toolkit you need to make it seamless…
  • #5 - The Learning Loop: From Critical Thinking to AI “Slow Drips”
    In This Issue: As AI tools become ubiquitous, the “human” competitive advantage shifts to metacognition and critical inquiry. In this issue, we dive into why “thinking about our t…
  • #4 – The Learning Loop: #CriticalThinking with #AI
    Students meet a flood of AI slop and shrinking attention, so this issue shows how to teach critical thinking with AI, not around it, starting with How to Teach Critical Thinking When AI Does the Th…
  • #3 – The Learning Loop: AI and Education
    In this Issue: Explore the latest developments in AI education, from exclusive course discounts to critical discussions about AI ethics in teaching. Discover resources for AI literacy and navigate …
  • #2 – The Learning Loop: AI and Education
    In this Issue: Discover how BoodleBox is leveling up with access to more powerful AI models for educational bots. Learn what really happens to your deleted chats across different AI platforms and i…
  • #1 – The Learning Loop: #AI and #Education
    In this Issue #1: Discover how to prepare pre-service teachers for the AI-enhanced classrooms of tomorrow with evidence-based frameworks and practical strategies. Learn how administrators can ensur…
  • #1a - The Learning Loop: Chats with Z.ai
    I missed the announcement of Z.ai, but it’s a friendly AI, if a bit verbose. I like this chart it generated when I asked, “What formats can you export to?” Z.ai also offers a vari…

Top Reads for Gen AI

See the complete list. These appear in reverse chronological order (latest at the top).

  • Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
  • Bank Employee Drops Customer Data Into AI Chatbot, Exposes Thousands
  • Google Just Announced 'Gemini Intelligence' at The Android Show: I/O Edition
  • OpenAI reveals Daybreak, its attempt to topple Anthropic Mythos
  • Meet the Sad Wives of AI
  • OpenAI Introduces Daybreak: A Cybersecurity Initiative That Puts Codex Security at the Center of Vulnerability Detection and Patch Validation
  • The Rise of Emotional Surveillance
  • AI Image Generator Cheat Sheet: Nano Banana, ChatGPT, and More
  • Google Chrome silently installing AI models on our devices​ | Cybernews
  • You can now easily generate files in Gemini.
  • McKinsey’s new AI report argues the productivity payoff is real but conditional
  • Economists publish mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy
  • Survey: US workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI • The Register
  • Skip Copy and Paste: Gemini Now Delivers Answers as Docs, PDFs, Excel, More | PCMag
  • AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in Healthcare Software Used by 100,000 Medical Providers | AISLE
  • Live Voice Translator & Real-Time Speech Translation | Palabra.ai
  • Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer up to 3 years before diagnosis in landmark validation study - Mayo Clinic News Network
  • 'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses
  • Claude Opus 4.7 vs ChatGPT 5.5 : the Hidden Strengths of Each Explored
  • Anthropic’s Little Brother

AI Related Media

Podcasts, Videos, Books to listen, watch, read.

  • the future belongs to the people who work with their hands
  • Defuddle — Get the main content of any page as Markdown.
  • The 5 AI Tools You Need After ChatGPT (that do real work)
  • The paradigm shift is here: retraining for the next big job might be a dead end. 🔥 Leading AI safety expert, Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, makes a chilling case for why the next wave of automation won't just replace *some* jobs—it could eliminate *all* human employment. The strategies we relied on, from learning to code to becoming prompt engineers, are already being surpassed by AI itself. This isn't about finding a Plan B occupation; it's about facing the ultimate questions: What supports humanity financially when work disappears? What provides meaning for our extra 60+ hours weekly? A vital, paradigm-shattering perspective on the true trajectory of artificial intelligence and society. #AIAutomation #FutureOfWork #JobLoss #RomanYampolskiy #AISafety
  • “I'm deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people,” says Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of AI company Anthropic. https://cbsn.ws/482rsVY
  • Will Guaranteed Income Save Us From AI? Watch now: https://youtu.be/cXfQFFsijkI Andrew Yang — 2020 presidential candidate and visionary behind the Freedom Dividend — joins Michael Smerconish LIVE on CNN to discuss whether Universal Basic Income (UBI) could serve as a shield against the accelerating wave of job loss caused by Artificial Intelligence. If you think the case for UBI already sounds dramatic… listen to what one AI safety pioneer is now warning. University of Louisville computer science and engineering professor Roman Yampolskiy, author of “AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable,” argues that 99% of workers could be unemployed by 2030 as humanoid robots and advanced AI models make human labor uneconomical. This conversation brings together two urgent perspectives: - Andrew Yang on UBI as a financial safety net - Roman Yampolskiy on the existential risks of AI-driven automation What happens when AI can do most jobs — faster, cheaper, and without limits? Is guarant...
  • Dr. Michelle Kassorla on Inverting Bloom’s Taxonomy: Teaching for Thinking in the Age of AI — Smarter Campus Podcast
  • Ep.# 190: ChatGPT Health, xAI’s $20B Round, & The Claude Code Tipping Point
  • #189: Is Claude AGI?, AI Change Management, Nvidia-Groq Deal, Meta Acquires Manus, Yann LeCun Speaks Out & OpenAI Preps AI Device
  • #188: AI Trends for 2026, Google DeepMind AI Predictions, Gemini 3 Flash, AI World Models & Are AI Job Losses Overblown?
  • #187: AI Answers - Overcoming AI Stigma, Vibe Coding, Redefining Productivity, Building AI-Native Companies, and Finding Trusted Sources
  • #186: GPT-5.2, Disney-OpenAI Deal, New Trump AI Executive Order, OpenAI State of Enterprise AI Report, Teen AI Usage & Data Centers in Space
  • #185: AI Answers - Getting Started with AI, Core AI Concepts, In-Demand AI Jobs, Data Cleanliness & AI Fact-Checking
  • #184: OpenAI “Code Red,” Gemini 3 Deep Think, Recursive Self-Improvement, ChatGPT Ads, Apple Talent Woes & New Data on AI Job Cuts
  • #183: AI Job Automation, Is There an AI Bubble?, AI Political Divides, ChatGPT Turns 3, Claude Opus 4.5, Google vs. Nvidia & DeepSeek V3.2
  • “It’s All Marketing” - Dr. Timnit Gebru on the Smoke and Mirrors of AI Hype - Part I - YouTube
  • AI in Education - The Green Room Conversations
  • #182: Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-5.1 Pro, Nvidia Earnings, Karen Hao Book Controversy & Entry-Level Unemployment by The Artificial Intelligence Show
  • #181: AI Answers - Measuring AI Skills, Aligning Leaders, AI Literacy Frameworks, Overcoming Resistance & Preparing for AI Agents by The Artificial Intelligence Show
  • Free AI Image Generator: Online Text to Image App | Canva

Publications

A few of my most recent published writings...see more and explore Science specific ones:

  • Four Free Tools to Cut Workflow Friction in 2026 – TCEA TechNotes Blog
  • When Disaster Strikes: The Cyber Edition – TCEA TechNotes Blog
  • Stop the Spam: Tips for Filtering Unwanted Phone Calls – TCEA TechNotes Blog
  • Stop Fixing Students: Coaching for Equity through Universal Design – TCEA TechNotes Blog
  • TCEA Responds: Navigating Resistance, Part 1 – TCEA TechNotes Blog
  • Coaching That Clicks with Micro-Teaching
  • Five Questions Texas Educators Should Ask About Data – TCEA TechNotes Blog
  • Advance Organizers for Deeper Learning – TCEA TechNotes Blog
  • Coaching Strategies, Part One
  • A New Course: The Three Dimensions of the Science TEKS!

Critical Thinking

Must-reads for critical thinking that impacted my own.

  • They Want to Replace Teachers With AI
  • MiniVivas | The Pedagogy of Oral Defense
  • Debate Cards: Teaching Students to Think With Evidence
  • I miss thinking hard.
  • The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech – The Marginalian
  • Reject the Evidence of Your Eyes and Ears
  • If You Can’t Teach Plato in a Philosophy Class, What Can You Teach?
  • How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking
  • Opinion | Texas A&M told me not to teach these Plato excerpts. Here's what he wrote.
  • WorkBook+-+How+Creative+AI+Dialogue+Can+Restore+Critical+Thinking.pdf
  • Living Humanist Values: The Ten Commitments - TheHumanist.com
  • Ten committments poster
  • My Improbable Journey from Religion to Humanism - TheHumanist.com
  • #111-AI-Assisted Tools in Education and How AI Might Assist our Critical Thinking-with guest Kyle Falbo — Thinking Clearly
  • You Probably Already Saw AI Slop Today. What Educators Need To Know About This Fast-Growing and Harmful Trend
  • How to Teach Critical Thinking When AI Does the Thinking
  • Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of misinformation
  • Infographic: FLOATER by Melanie Trecek-King
  • Infographic: The PRISM Framework
  • Infographic: 5 Advanced Problem Solving Frameworks
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