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Beyond AI Literacy: Addressing Metacognitive Laziness in Higher Education

Plamen Miltenoff Students use AI systems to summarize readings, explain concepts, generate ideas, write drafts, solve problems, and support research. These capabilities create significant opportunities for learning. They also raise an important question: What happens...

The Delphi Method in the Age of AI: A Valuable Tool for Research and Strategic Planning at the University of Economics Varna

Plamen Miltenoff Universities face growing uncertainty. Artificial intelligence is transforming teaching, research, business, public administration, and labor markets faster than institutions can easily adapt. In such situations, historical data often provide only...

AI and the Higher Education Crisis: Moving Beyond the “Cheating” Panic to Fight Intellectual Atrophy

Plamen Miltenoff This source explores the detrimental shift from active learning to cognitive surrender caused by the premature use of artificial intelligence in universities. Rather than focusing on simple academic dishonesty, the author argues that students risk...

Build Your Own AI Fluency Challenges

The AI Fluency Challenge: Turning AI Use into Visible Thinking In the previous two posts , we explored Phillip Alcock’s practical approach to AI fluency through. The first presented six AI fluency projects to help students' thinking become visible when working with...

Beyond the Buzzwords: Translating AI Topics into Observable Classroom Skills

Plamen MiltenoffIn our previous post at the Science and Research Institute on 6 Popular AI Fluency Projects, we explored practical classroom missions like One Wrong Thing and Prompt Rescue. These projects shared a central goal: making student thinking visible. To...

6 AI Fluency Projects That Make Student Thinking Visible

Plamen Miltenoff As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into education, many educators face a common challenge: how can students use AI while still demonstrating their own thinking? The answer lies in AI fluency. AI fluency goes beyond knowing how...

From AI Literacy to Verification Literacy: The Debate Around Citation Hallucination Checkers

Plamen Miltenoff The rise of generative AI in academic writing is creating a new problem for research integrity: hallucinated citations. These are references appearing credible yet none existent, contain incorrect metadata, or combine details from multiple real papers...

ChatGPT and the Cognitive Trade-Off Between Critical and Creative Thinking

Plamen Miltenoff A systematic review of 67 studies reveals that generative AI acts as a double-edged sword for student cognition, significantly impacting critical and creative thinking based on how it is utilized. While the technology can...

Short Videos, Attention, and Executive Control: What Universities Should Learn From New EEG Research

This research investigates how short-form video platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts impact the neurological functions of young adults. Using EEG technology, the study reveals that high levels of engagement with these apps correlate...

Functional, Critical, and Rhetorical AI Literacy in Research

Plamen Miltenoff Researchers currently use AI systems to search literature, summarize articles, develop research questions, assist with writing, analyze data, and even simulate peer review. Parker and Becker argue the need for a new understanding of AI literacy for...

Weekly AI Research Workshops – March 16–20 | Science and Research Institute, University of Economics Varna

Седмични AI уъркшопи за научни изследвания – 16–20 март | Научноизследователски институт, Икономически университет – Варна This week, March 16–20, the Science and Research Institute of the University of Economics – Varna is hosting a series of self-paced hands-on...

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The Free Microsoft Copilot Training Path We All Should Consider

Безплатният път за обучение с Microsoft Copilot, който всички трябва да имаме пред вид AI fluency is no longer about knowing one tool — it's about navigating ecosystems. Most students and faculty at University of Economics Varna are already comfortable in Google's...

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Stop Using One AI for Everything

Спрете да използвате един за всичко After months of testing every major AI tool, here's the insight most academics miss: these tools aren't competitors. They're specialists. Forcing a single AI to handle every academic task is like using a calculator for your...

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In Memoriam: Remembering Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026)

In Memoriam: Да споменем Юрген Хабермас (1929–2026) The world of ideas lost one of its most towering figures yesterday. Jürgen Habermas, one of Germany's most influential postwar philosophers, died at the age of 96. euronews His death on March 14, 2026, in Starnberg,...

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Tonight: Join the Global Conversation on AI and Academic Integrity

Тази вечер: Присъединете се към глобалния диалог за ИИ и академичната почтеност As we navigate the 2025-2026 academic year at the University of Economics – Varna, the integration of generative AI into our classrooms has moved from a "future possibility" to a "daily...

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Prompt Engineering vs. Context Engineering

Prompt Engineeringсрещу Context Engineering The vocabulary we use to talk about AI shapes how we think about it. Two terms are increasingly colliding in the field — and understanding the distinction between them may be the difference between building AI features that...

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AI Guardrails, Public Skepticism, and the Rising Need for AI Literacy

Предпазни механизми за ИИ, обществен скептицизъм и нарастващата необходимост от грамотност по изкуствен интелект scroll down for the text in Bulgarian Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/ has emerged as one of the most visible companies in the global debate about...

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