{"id":97550,"date":"2025-12-10T13:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=97550"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:23:09","slug":"my-students-use-chatgpt-to-attack-their-own-thinking-before-i-ever-grade-them-winkel-another-item-re-ai-in-our-les","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/12\/10\/my-students-use-chatgpt-to-attack-their-own-thinking-before-i-ever-grade-them-winkel-another-item-re-ai-in-our-les\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My students use ChatGPT to attack their own thinking  before I ever grade them.&#8221; [Winkel] + another item re: AI in our LE&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drphilippahardman.substack.com\/p\/beyond-infographics-how-to-use-nano?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beyond Infographics: How to Use Nano Banana to *Actually* Support Learning<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr Philippa Hardman<br \/>\n<em>Six evidence-based use cases to try in Google&#8217;s latest image-generating AI tool<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>While it\u2019s true that Nano Banana generates better infographics than other AI models, the conversation has so far massively under-sold what\u2019s actually different and valuable about this tool for those of us who design learning experiences.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What this means for our workflow:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead of the traditional \u201ccommission ? wait ? tweak ? approve ? repeat\u201d cycle, Nano Banana enables an\u00a0<em>iterative, rapid-cycle design process<\/em>\u00a0where you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sketch an idea and see it refined in minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Test multiple visual metaphors for the same concept without re-briefing a designer.<\/li>\n<li>Build 10-image storyboards with perfect consistency by specifying the constraints once, not manually editing each frame.<\/li>\n<li>Implement evidence-based strategies (contrasting cases, worked examples, observational learning) that are usually too labour-intensive to produce at scale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>This shift\u2014from \u201cimage generation as decoration\u201d to \u201cimage generation as instructional scaffolding\u201d\u2014is what makes Nano Banana uniquely useful for the 10 evidence-based strategies below.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embedded post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:share:7401971565757702145\" width=\"504\" height=\"1593\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Infographics: How to Use Nano Banana to *Actually* Support Learning &#8212; from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr Philippa Hardman Six evidence-based use cases to try in Google&#8217;s latest image-generating AI tool While it\u2019s true that Nano Banana generates better infographics than other AI models, the conversation has so far massively under-sold what\u2019s actually different and valuable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,374,356,817,208,115,498,302,260,112,200,271,286,343,32,210,533,71,36,35,178,264,391,419,180,119,482,124,64,46,825,102,17,7,838,510,228,87,79,327,15,23,173,69,309,196,855,480,66,89,50,188,40,195,118,206,321,214,367,11,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-adult-learning","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-creativity","category-digital-learning","category-education","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-experimentation","category-faculty-staff","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-graphics","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-it-in-he","category-k-12-related","category-law-schools","category-learning","category-learning-agents","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-preferences","category-learning-spaces","category-liberal-arts","category-library-librarians","category-lifelong-learning","category-multimedia","category-pedagogy","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-platforms","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-skills","category-society","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-tools","category-training-corporate-universities","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97563,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97550\/revisions\/97563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}