by linustan | Sep 20, 2025 | Academia, AI Futures, Behaviours, teaching, Teaching and learning, Tools
TL;DR: Learning with AI isn’t about shortcuts, but about cultivating awareness, challenging assumptions, and reframing what effort really looks like. How we used to learn There were acronyms I used to invent in school. They weren’t clever, but they helped ideas...
by linustan | Sep 6, 2025 | Higher Education Landscape, Researcher
TL;DR: The modern university system rewards academic productivity over scholarly depth. The more time we devote to meaningful thinking, the more invisible we risk becoming. To preserve scholarship, we must find new ways, be it inside or outside the institution, to...
by linustan | Jul 23, 2025 | Academia, AI Futures, AI Mindset
TL;DR: As AI takes over mental labour, will we need “intellectual gyms” to keep our minds sharp? Universities could become the new spaces for deliberate cognitive challenge. For millennia, survival depended on physical strength. Our ancestors ploughed fields,...
by linustan | Jul 15, 2025 | Academia, AI Integration
TL;DR: Students live in a dopamine-driven world where attention is fragmented. Higher education must rethink its structures, leverage AI for multi-format learning, and defend the value of deep thinking without turning lecturers into performers. They are looking...
by linustan | Jul 14, 2025 | Academia, AI Integration
TL;DR: In the age of AI-assisted writing, our traditional understanding of plagiarism no longer fits. Professor Eaton’s idea of post-plagiarism offers a new framework for authorship, integrity, and trust in education. It started with something simple. I’d...
by linustan | May 2, 2025 | Academia, Wellbeing
TL;DR: A reflection on my panic attack that followed a disengaged class, reflecting on the emotional labour, blurred boundaries, and the pressures of performance that spiralled me into darkness. It happened on the first day back from semester break. I walked...
