Author: Rafael Scapin

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a buzz word in recent years and continues to change our lives in new and exciting ways. In 2023, we can expect to see new AI trends and applications that will further impact the world. …

“It made no sense to ban ChatGPT within the university. It was already being used by 100 million people.”

https://macleans.ca/society/technology/chatgpt-ai-university-students-professor-exams/…

Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo are successfully using a robot to help keep children with learning disabilities focused on their work.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230221113129.htm…

The decision follows a review by Canada’s chief information officer, and the app “presents an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security”, a government spokesperson said in a statement.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64792894…

James Hodgkin, Jisc’s head of learning analytics, believes understanding data is more than a dashboard: it can improve data governance across higher education.

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/how-learning-analytics-can-finally-deliver-on-its-promise-24-feb-2023…

Join the Eductive team on March 16th in this bilingual laboratory on ludopedagogy, divided into 3 steps in which, together, we will reflect on the requirements to successfully integrate games into the classroom, as well as their prototyping and their …

Rubrics are valuable assessment tools that provide clear and transparent expectations about what constitutes quality work. Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. Using rubrics helps teachers …

You might think that, just because you don’t use Google Chrome or the search engine itself, you steer clear of Google tracking. You’d be wrong.

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-google-tracks-you/…

While many worry these advanced AI technologies are ushering in a new age of plagiarism and cheating, these technologies also introduce opportunities for educators to rethink assessment practices and engage students in deeper and more meaningful learning that can promote …

You’ve probably already seen DALL-E’s creations blowing up online. How exactly does this generative AI model work?

https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-dall-e-ai-image-generator/…

How will ChatGPT impact education? Knowing that we cannot completely ban access to ChatGPT, we need to find ways to integrate it into our teaching practices. There is a lot to be said about this topic, but here is some …

Universities must do more than just offer online learning: they must make sure lecturers know how to adapt to the technology.

https://theconversation.com/online-learning-platforms-arent-enough-lecturers-need-the-right-technical-skills-199310…

This trend report aims to help us understand the technological developments that are going on around us, to make sense of our observations, and to inspire. We have chosen the technology perspective to provide an overview of signals and trends, …

AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they’re just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software — not sentient.

https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test…