Idea 32 for 2025 I wanted to discuss a new white paper written by British tech philosopher Dr Tom Chatfield. It examines how AI can support educators and students and potentially deepen the process of higher learning in a variety of ways. As a postsecondary educator myself, I found Chatfield’s exploration of cognitive, instrumental, and importantly social dimensions of learning and his navigation of research and strategies to design and implement assessments through applying AI most...

Idea 31 for 2025 A few weeks ago, I listened to a podcast recorded in September on the future of higher education with the rapid ascent of generative AI. Published as part of The Globe & Mail's Machines Like Us podcast series, it featured a conversation moderated by Taylor Owen. Created by Gemini by Google. October 31 2025. It featured Conor Grennan, the chief AI architect at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where he’s helping students and educators embrace AI, and Niall Ferguson, a senior...

Idea 30 for 2025 As a writer and creator, I am a member of Access Copyright and joined dozens to attend an online webinar a few weeks ago featuring the lawyer Erin Finlay, Partner, Stohn Hay Cafazzo, LLP. Finlay, perhaps in true lawyerly fashion, presented her comments as information and not legal advice and stressed that they were accurate as of the day of the presentation, October 1, 2025. After the session we were presented a webinar summary in pdf format, and I have, with AI Assistant...