A collection of assignments and materials inspired by the humanities, for educators curious about how AI affects their students and their syllabi.
How we can use AI to make education amazing
Slides from the keynote offered my Martin Dougiamas at last week’s ICDE meetings. Describes the OET ‘Assistant’, which is essentially a personal learning environment.
How hard can it be? Testing the dependability of AI detection tools
Students are using artificial intelligence to write essays and other assessment tasks, but can they fool the AI detection tools? Daniel Lee and Edward Palmer put a few to the test.
Best Tools and Apps to Make Quizzes Online
The purpose of this post is to share with you a collection of teacher-tested websites and apps to make quizzes online. These are simple and easy to use applications that will enable you to create different quiz types and formative …
‘We don’t have teachers’ | This Austin private school lets AI teach core subjects
Alpha private school leaders believe AI learning paired with life skill courses will be the standard for modern schools in the future. The school doesn’t have teachers but instead uses what it calls “guides.”
New internet addiction spectrum: Where are you on the scale?
Young people (24 years and younger) spend an average of six hours a day online, primarily using their smartphones, according to new research. Older people (those 24 years and older) spend 4.6 hours online.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231002124352.htm…
Teacher saves hours a week using ChatGPT to plan lessons
A primary school teacher admits using AI and ChatGPT saves him hours every week – but he can’t see robots taking over anytime soon. David Grant, 27, reckons using technology has stopped him ‘taking the job home’ – and given …
Students use calculators to do math. Let them use ChatGPT to write
Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.
https://bigthink.com/thinking/students-calculators-math-chatgpt-writing-essays…
Meet Nightshade, a new tool empowering artists to fight back against AI
“So this can really give some incentives to both companies and artists just to work together on this thing, right? Rather than just a company taking everything from artists because they can.”
Trying to Predict the Future of AI
No-one working in higher education over the past six months will have been able to escape the frantic discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and what it means for the future. It’s not my background, and I’m certainly no expert. One …
7 principles for AI in education
The edtech industry aims to advance the responsible use of AI to enhance learning, while also protecting privacy and promoting educational equity.
Game-based Revision: Making Learning Dynamic Through Play | Summary of an AQPC Webinar
On September 21, 2023, Magalie Fournier-Plouffe, a pedagogical counsellor at Collège André-Grasset and history teacher at Cégep Marie-Victorin, hosted a webinar organized by the Association québécoise de pédagogie collégiale (AQPC). She described how, in the fall of 2021, she put …
Bot-Building for Educators
OpenAI have released a new “assistants” function. Put simply, this development means that it’s now possible for anyone who can use ChatGPT to “build a chatbot”.Since its release, I’ve spent some time digging into the new assistants feature to ask: …
Your phone is the key to your digital life. Make sure you know what to do if you lose it.
Preparing yourself for the worst is easier than you might think — and it’s never been more important.
https://www.vox.com/technology/23954548/lost-broken-stolen-phone-save-yourself…
How to Use Microsoft Teams for Virtual Training
Among the many tools available, Microsoft Teams stands out as a powerhouse for virtual collaboration and learning. In this post, we’ll look at how to use Microsoft Teams for virtual training and how it can transform learning sessions from mundane …