Donald Clark Plan B
What is Plan B? Not Plan A!
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April 2026
- Assessment at a crossroads - don't catch, change behaviour
- Hassabis - most important AI person on the planet
March 2026
- New, free language learning tool in Google Translate
- AI should be the Guide, not the Ghostwriter
- AI assessment apocalypse – a 5-step solution
February 2026
- AI Confidential with Hannah Fry - hatchet job that lacks balance
- AI fits like a glove in EFL and second language teaching
January 2026
July 2025
April 2025
- Memo from CEO of Shopify.... Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify
- Fiverr CEO''s stunning letter to all employees..... AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job too.
January 2025
December 2024
- Raising in Arizona with AI: groundbreaking journey in AI ducation
- Why Latin should NOT be in the school curriculum
- AGI is here...
- Fast technology and the slowcoach brain – fascinating paper
- Does ChatGPT enhance student learning? Meta-study with some surprises!
- Reclaiming Productivity: Aligning Work, Learning, and Societal Needs
- Astounding talk by Sutskever
- Tyranny of Text: Education, Work, and the AI Revolution
- How do emotions impact learning and mental effort? Maybe not as we think
November 2024
- Do DEI programmes need a reality check?
- Acronyms, alliteration and absurdity: the sad truth about Organisational 'Values'
- 20 ways to use NEW Google Video analysis
- Is AI generated video as GOOD as real video in learning?
- GenAI synthesises and does not copy – huge case won by OpenAI
- AI school opens - learners are not good or bad but fast and slow
- 5 big surprises in Wharton report on GenAI
October 2024
- Should L&D be renamed the ‘PERFORMANCE Department’?
- Apple Intelligence has finally dropped from the tree! A primer...
- Holy Trinity of AI, Fusion and Quantum computing could create new future
- Solid paper on personalised learning
- Ai-Da: Challenging creativity's boundaries in a post-humanist, post-creation era?
- Taming the AI & Assessment Conflict: 21 Practical Resolutions
- Agentic AI can now use your computer
- Who put the Silicon in Silicon Valley? The place where rocks were made to think...
- Screentime - another in the Sisyphean cycle of technology panics?
- GOOGLE and AMAZON GO NUCLEAR!
- Robot teaching assistants – I’ve changed my mind…
- Learning theorist gets Nobel Prize….
- Academia sneering at Hinton's Nobel Prize for Physics shows a level of distasteful jealousy.... he's a genius
- An AI provocation! How biased are WE on AI? Fascinating paper…
- AI will not take your job but someone using AI will – it may well replace Doctors?
- Straight from the imagination to the screen.... Meta's video release
September 2024
- Realistic dialogue is here....
- Is SaaS in learning dead?
- Good survey (1045 parents & teens 13-18) showing high use of GenAI in schools (with short podcast)
- Another great teaching and learning tool. NotebookLM's automated podcasts will blow your mind
- GenAI students learn more than twice as much in less time, with more engagement motivation enjoyment & growth mindset
- ChatGPT o1 brilliant 'worked example' teaching & learning tool
- Art and AI - a radical jump?
- Has ChatGPTo1 just become a 'Critical Thinker'?
- AI is a provocation – that explains a lot of the bizarre reactions
- Founder v Manager mode - the meme
- Man who coined the phrase ‘Postmodern’ is often forgotten - Jean-François Lyotard
- UNESCO and AI - mostly rhetoric
- AI in schools - how one large school organisation is kick starting the process....
- Motivation - in the blink of an AI…. an underestimated dimension of Generative AI
- Alien Romulus - a movie for the age of AI
August 2024
- ASU is all in on AI with a bottom up approach....
- Yale spend $150 million on AI - why this leads the way for AI in Higher Education...
- Foucault - friend or foe in learning?
- One thing often happens at keynotes and conferences. It surprised me….
- Heidegger's a fascinating thinker on teaching, learning and technology
- Astonishing figures and insights from Harvard Undergraduate Survey on Generative AI
- Does Derrida's View of Language help us understand Generative AI?
- Benchmarks on factual accuracy on LLMs
- Strawberry Fields forever? Is GPT5 really to change the world?
- 6 Level AI Maturity Model (AIMM)
- AI ethical objections - use it, you see the light… says Gartner
July 2024
- Microsoft AI and Productivity Report - huge amounts of AI on the sly!
- What if discussions of bias in AI were mostly biased themselves?
- Apple Intelligence is here
- What is China up to in AI? A lot!
- Sly use of AI! Data on using AI on the sly.
- An AI hospital, AI physicians and clinical decision making
- ‘Technology is not the problem' by Timandra Harkness
- Choosing a GenAI model? Tricky... quick guide...
- Resilence training - where it came from and why it went so badly wrong
- Worrying data on how students & institutions are dealing with AI
- GT5 and synthetic baby! It’s the future I tell you… but what is it?
- Future of AI is here but not evenly distributed - some real SURPRISES on use, gender, age, expectations & ethics
- AI projects: What to do? How to do it? Let me introduce you to Nickle LaMoreaux, the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer) at IBM
- Collaborative Overload Harvard Business Review - why collaboration often sucks and what to do about it!
- Recruitment is a cat and mouse game. AI gives the mice real edge! 30 ways candidates use AI to get new jobs…
- A plea for quiet learning for adults against the cacophony of the training room or e-learning...
- US-EU digital divide deepens as Meta and Apple hold back product – it’s a mess
- Good discussion paper on the Role and Expertise of AI Ethicists: Bottom line – it’s a mess!
- My favourite AI quote....
- Lascaux: archaeology of the mind - a LIM (Large Image Model) and a place of teaching and learning
- Labour, growth, productivity and AI
- Mary Meaker's tech report 'AI & Universities' is right but delusional
June 2024
- Is the Dispatches C4 programme a completely faked experiment?
- This blind trial paper raises some serious questions on assessment
- Natural-born cyborgs - learnings new imperative with AI
- Being You by Anil Seth - brilliant introduction to contemporary neuroscience
- The DATA is in… AI is happening BIG TIME in organisations…
- British Library. Books look like museum pieces as that it what they are becoming?
- The 'Netflix of AI' that makes you a movie Director
- Apple solves privacy and security concerns around AI?
- Ethan Mollick’s 'CO-INTELLIGENCE' - a review
- Sam has ditched Satya for Tim – he’s so louche that lad! Apple Intelligence is here! New Siri and more...
- 7 success factors in real 'AI in learning' projects
- Postcreation: a new world. AI is not the machine, it is now ‘us’ speaking to ‘ourselves’, in fruitful dialogue.
May 2024
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- AI as response to digital transformation
- Context matters? Yes and AI has made its move...
- AI Business Boats don’t rise with these models, they remain tethered to the old dock and sink.
- Does this 'Her' moment mark the rise of AI coaching?
- Google just dropped some great news on AI for learning....
- Is teaching becoming obsolete with GPT4o? Do we now have a UNIVERSAL TEACHER?
- Japan - a lesson in life and technology
- I asked myself (‘Digital-Don’) what personality traits I showed, then compared this to LLM personality trauits (OCEAN)
April 2024
- The Great Hall - where now with AI? It is not 'Human Connection V Innovative Technology' but 'Human Connection + Innovative Technology'
- Is L&D being flipped?
- Learning Technologies Conference 2024: If you want to move a graveyard you will get no help from the incumbents!
- Pfeffer - Leadership BS!
- Kellerman on followership
- Mintzberg crtiticisms of leadership theory
- Kotter on leadership and the 8 steps
- Hersey and Blanchard - Situational Leadership Model
- Drucker - father of modern management on leadership
- Burns - transactional to transformational leadership
- Ong - orality, literacy and new technologies?
- Merlin Donald - evolution, culture and ezternal sketchpad
- Turchin's terrifying predictions
- New psychology – Connectionists
- Clark on AI, extended mind, neurodiversity and psychosis
- Tenenbaum on one or few shot systems and common sense core
- Friston on the Bayesian mind
- Dennett, AI and the computational mind
- Strawson on the storied self
- Parfit on brain states and personal identity
- Hume as psychologist and on learning
March 2024
- Chater - The Flat Mind
- Will AI will make us stupid? A conceit of the old when faced the the new!
- Sisyphean nature of moral panics against new technology
- What does the learning game have to learn from the beautiful game - football? Data really matters...
- Multimodal means many more moments for learning
- AI moves from 2D to 3D
- The Strange Case of Altman V Board at OpenAI revealed
- Are the LMS & VLE dead! Accenture and Udacity draw new line in sand
- Is ‘Deepfake’ hysteria mostly fake news?
- The Mind is Flat!
February 2024
- There’s a new Sheriff in town – AI!
- Rather than deepfakes, censorship and surreal ethical fakes are the problem?
- Algorithms, optimisation and football
- I am become life, the creator of worlds?
- Sora - as Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Casting Director, Costume designer and actors
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