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SAIL: Students, Life Coach, Agents

April 21, 2025

April 20, 2025 Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I focus on AI’s impact on higher education. AI can do many discrete knowledge tasks well -...

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April 11, 2025

April 11, 2025 Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I focus on AI and higher education. I was at the ASU-GSV conference this past week. This is...

SAIL: Agents, Mental Health

April 5, 2025

April 3, 2025 Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I look at trends and impacts of AI on higher education. The AI hypescape is vibrant, with the...

SAIL: AI Products, America still winning, Call for Papers, Agents

March 28, 2025

March 27, 2025 Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I look at how AI impacts higher education. Building capacity and skill in developing AI...

SAIL: GenAI and Feedback, Loneliness,Jobs, AI and LMS

March 22, 2025

March 22, 2025 Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I review AI trends that impact higher education. AI & Education What is happening in the...

SAIL: How to use LLMs, Robots, Voice, MCP, Vibe Coding

March 17, 2025

March 15, 2025 Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I look at the trends in AI that have implications for higher education. This week, I’m...

SAIL: AI & Science, Higher Education Landscape

February 19, 2025

February 19, 2025 Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I focus on AI’s impact on higher education. I’m preparing for a talk next week to a board...

SAIL: Halted Innovation

February 14, 2025

Feb 13, 2025 Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I focus on how AI impacts higher education. The last time I saw as much daily innovation, new...

SAIL: Jobs and things we should learn

February 11, 2025

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I focus on how AI impacts higher education. We’ve been hearing for years that AI will destroy jobs. Frey and...

SAIL: Understanding LLMs, Learning as Struggle

February 6, 2025

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I explore AI trends that impact higher education. AI and Learning Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT. If you...

SAIL: Critical thinking, More DeepSeek

January 31, 2025

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I focus on how AI advances impact higher education. What does innovation with AI look like in universities?...

SAIL: Systems, but still about those agents

January 26, 2025

Welcome to sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). I focus mainly on AI advancement that might impact higher education. While there is growing interest in how...

SAIL: Agents, Agents, Agents

January 7, 2025

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). Likely no trend in AI will be more substantive this year than agents. After significant advancement in the...

SAIL: Gearing up for 2025

January 3, 2025

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). The last year has been hectic on the AI advancement front, accelerating in December as Google (DeepMind) and...

SAIL: OpenAI needs adult supervision, Nvidia nails it, Tutors, LearnLM, Jobs

May 23, 2024

Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) AI is facing increased reckoning from regulatory interests, with EU leading. In the land of significant freedom, OpenAI...

SAIL: Data consortium, All of Life, Context Windows, GPT-4o, AI and Deception

May 14, 2024

Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) Hi all, There’s an important conversation happening in AI that was reflected in a short exchange I had on a panel last...

SAIL: Kendrick is winning, AI agents, Elections, AI & Nukes

May 6, 2024

Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL).May 6, 2024 Agents are all the rage. Russell & Norvig describe agents as something that can perceive and act in an...

SAIL: Self-promotion, Meta AI, Social Science, Vectors, Databases

April 21, 2024

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) - a “when I feel like it” newsletter on AI and learning. I’m learning to be better. Last week I spent time at...

SAIL: Agents, LLMs, Transformers, Attention, Data

April 13, 2024

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). My goal with the newsletter is to share, for mainly the higher education sector, trends that matter in AI....

SAIL: AI & Education Groundhog's day

November 16, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL), a regular look at how AI is impacting education and learning. Over the last year, after dozens of...