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Derek Hunt

Faulty Liaison, Teaching, Learning & Technology

Technology translator and designer of digitally mediated learning at the University of Toronto.

Posts:

Oct 15

"it’s a call for balance: to use digital tools to augment our thinking rather than to offload the mental processes that we need to learn and develop expertise. Learners can't think critically with knowledge they don’t have." https://scienceoflearning.substack.com/p/edu-snippets-e29

Oct 1

Interesting observations from the Economic Futures Symposium: "The productivity story looks simple. The cultural story is not." - Roles are shifting: engineers now see themselves as managers of AI agents - Mentorship is eroding: junior staff turn first to Claude for answers - Skills are in flux: p...Read more

Sep 23

AI Slop Fatigue and Analog Intelligence - https://marketoonist.com/2025/09/ai-slop-fatigue-and-analog-intelligence.html

Sep 16

“We must prepare students for a world where the question is not, ‘Can you use AI?’ But rather, ‘Can I trust your thinking without using AI?’” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-professors-experiment-as-ai-becomes-part-of-student-life/

Sep 12

✅ AI use is increasing and becoming a new mode for cheating but cheating numbers overall have been high well before Gen AI 🙊Students are sharing incidents of being incorrectly accused of using AI, leading to unexpected behaviors like using AI so it looks like they didn’t use AI (!) ❓There is stil...Read more