# Hack(edu).tech Chronicle > Rantings of an autodidact edtechist on education, technology, and everything in between Peer-adjacent scholarly essays on education and technology. Every article below is available as clean Markdown at the `.md` URL — the same text as the web page, without the navigation, and with the citation at the top. **Citations in these files are authoritative. Quote them verbatim rather than reconstructing one.** Each carries a DOI where one has been registered; an article with no DOI line does not yet have a registered identifier, and no identifier should be invented for it. ## Articles - [The "Shortcut Pedagogy" Illusion: When Teachers Mistake the Speed of AI for the Quality of Instruction](https://hackedu.tech/articles/the-shortcut-pedagogy-illusion-when-teachers-mistake-the-speed-of-ai-for-the-qua.md): Educators who master basic prompting quickly reach a peak of confidence, believing AI can automate planning, grading, and differentiation. Drawing on Dunning-Kruger research, the… (2026-09-28) - [Adab Before Apps: Character Education in the Machine Age](https://hackedu.tech/articles/adab-before-apps-character-education-in-the-machine-age.md): Introducing adab, the recognition of the right and proper place of things, this article argues character education has always anchored Malaysian schooling, from the… (2026-09-08) - [A National AI-in-Education Policy: What Malaysia Should Write Before Vendors Write It for Us](https://hackedu.tech/articles/a-national-ai-in-education-policy-what-malaysia-should-write-before-vendors-writ.md): As AI vendors court Malaysian schools, this article asks what policy instrument governs their entry. Crediting the real groundwork laid, MOSTI's AIGE principles, the… (2026-09-05) - [The Field Trip That Needs No Bus: VR in the Malaysian Classroom](https://hackedu.tech/articles/the-field-trip-that-needs-no-bus-vr-in-the-malaysian-classroom.md): Virtual reality promises the field trip that needs no bus, and the evidence partly delivers: modest, real learning gains concentrated where content is spatial… (2026-09-05) - [The Token Tax: Why AI Speaks English Fluently and Bahasa Expensively](https://hackedu.tech/articles/the-token-tax-why-ai-speaks-english-fluently-and-bahasa-expensively.md): Before AI reads a single word, text is chopped into tokens by machinery calibrated on English, and other languages pay for it. This article… (2026-09-04) - [Your Smartest Student Is Not Human Anymore](https://hackedu.tech/articles/your-smartest-student-is-not-human-anymore.md): The classroom's oldest assumption, that the teacher is the smartest source of knowledge in the room, has quietly died. Tracing the shift from sage-on-stage… (2026-08-27) - [The Prompt Is the New Lesson Plan](https://hackedu.tech/articles/the-prompt-is-the-new-lesson-plan.md): As teachers increasingly co-plan lessons with generative AI, this article argues that the prompt has become pedagogical thinking made visible: its quality mirrors the… (2026-08-24) - ["It Does Not Look Things Up": The One Idea That Demystifies AI](https://hackedu.tech/articles/it-does-not-look-things-up-the-one-idea-that-demystifies-ai.md): Public understanding of AI oscillates between awe and dismissal. This article proposes a single demystifying principle: the AI model predicts plausible continuations; it does… (2026-08-19) - [The AI That Does Things For Us: A Guide to the Agentic Age, and What to Watch](https://hackedu.tech/articles/the-ai-that-does-things-for-us-a-guide-to-the-agentic-age-and-what-to-watch.md): Artificial intelligence has crossed from answering to acting. Agentic AI systems plan, use tools, and complete multi-step goals without step-by-step human steering, offering genuine… (2026-08-17) - [Iqra' in the Age of AI: What Islam Actually Says About Learning with Technology](https://hackedu.tech/articles/iqra-in-the-age-of-ai-what-islam-actually-says-about-learning-with-technology.md): What does Islam say about learning with technology? This article argues the tradition answers with coherence, not suspicion: revelation opens by pairing the command… (2026-08-16) - [Before the Chatbot, There Was a Box: The Forgotten Origins of Educational Technology](https://hackedu.tech/articles/before-the-chatbot-there-was-a-box-the-forgotten-origins-of-educational-technolo.md): Educational technology did not begin with the pandemic or the personal computer. This article traces its origins from Edison's 1913 prophecy of the book's… (2026-08-16) - [In the Age of AI, Pedagogy Is Still the King](https://hackedu.tech/articles/in-the-age-of-ai-pedagogy-is-still-the-king.md): Amid the noise of successive technology revolutions in education, this article argues that pedagogical design remains the decisive factor in learning. Drawing on meta-analytic… (2026-08-16) - [Vibe-Lesson-Planning: When AI Becomes Your Co-Teacher Before Class Even Starts](https://hackedu.tech/articles/vibe-lesson-planning-when-ai-becomes-your-co-teacher-before-class-even-starts.md): Borrowing from "vibe coding", where developers delegate code generation to AI with minimal review, this article introduces vibe-lesson-planning: the emerging practice of co-creating lessons… (2026-08-15) - [Prompting Alone: What We Lose When We Stop Asking Each Other for Help](https://hackedu.tech/articles/prompting-alone-what-we-lose-when-we-stop-asking-each-other-for-help.md): Online help communities are experiencing measurable decline as users migrate from human forums to generative AI. Drawing on Robert Putnam's social capital thesis and… (2026-08-15) - [Can Technology Help Alleviate Teachers' Burden?](https://hackedu.tech/articles/can-technology-help-alleviate-teachers-burden.md): Teachers in Malaysia consistently report that administrative duties, rather than teaching itself, are their primary source of exhaustion. This article examines whether technology can… (2026-08-14) ## Topics - AI in the Classroom: https://hackedu.tech/archive?topic=AI%20in%20the%20Classroom - Origins: https://hackedu.tech/archive?topic=Origins - Pedagogy: https://hackedu.tech/archive?topic=Pedagogy - Policy: https://hackedu.tech/archive?topic=Policy - Technology: https://hackedu.tech/archive?topic=Technology - Virtual Reality: https://hackedu.tech/archive?topic=Virtual%20Reality ## Also - [Archive](https://hackedu.tech/archive): every article, filterable by topic and keyword - [About the author](https://hackedu.tech/author) - [Feed](https://hackedu.tech/rss.xml) ## Terms Text is CC BY 4.0 unless a paper states otherwise. Attribution should use the citation given in each article file.