In the Winter 2023 session, I taught the complementary course Séjour international [International Stay] at Cégep Limoilou. To prepare my students for a 3-week trip to Morocco at the end of the session, I set up 2 activities involving technological …
YouTube’s AI Chatbot Reads the Comments for You
YouTube is testing out two generative AI features for Premium users that will answer user questions about the video they’re watching and summarize a video’s comment section, Google announced Monday.
https://gizmodo.com/youtube-ai-chatbot-google-bard-reads-comments-1850998925…
5 Wonderful Free Day Planner Apps for Your To-Dos, Goals, and Daily Habits
Achieve consistent daily productivity with these free day planner apps to organize your tasks and goals.
https://www.makeuseof.com/free-day-planner-apps-to-organize-to-dos-goals-daily-habits…
How Microsoft’s AI teaching assistant helps generate classroom materials
With the help of Shiksha copilot, a teacher in Bengaluru, India, reports reducing her lesson-planning time from hours to minutes.
24 of the best online MIT courses you can take for free
edX hosts online courses from the most famous educational institutions in the world.
How to ChatGPT-proof Analysis Assignments
In this post, I’m going to show you one easy solution that solves the problem of assuming students will use generative AI by incorporating it into assessments. Keep in mind this is just a sketch using naked ChatGPT. If we …
Will ChatGPT change our definitions of cheating?
We can’t yet know if we have a full taxonomy of ChatGPT-enhanced mischief, or whether certain uses should be classed as mischief at all, writes Tom Muir.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/will-chatgpt-change-our-definitions-cheating…
OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT
The GPT platform is a no-code way to make custom AI agents for all sorts of tasks, and it’s available exclusively for ChatGPT Plus subscribers.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948957/openai-chatgpt-gpt-custom-developer-platform…
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 …
Guidance for generative AI in education and research
The publication offers concrete recommendations for policy-makers and education institutions on how the uses of GenAI tools can be designed to protect human agency and genuinely benefit students, teachers and researchers.
Video Lessons and Quizzes Using Twee.com
Twee allows users to swiftly generate questions about any YouTube video. By simply inputting the video’s URL, users can select up to a five-minute segment from the video and choose the type of questions they want, be it multiple choice, …
AI in the Classroom — Not Just Sci-Fi Anymore
Ever wondered if your classroom could turn into a scene from a sci-fi movie? Well, with AI, it’s not just a dream anymore!
https://medium.com/ai-hub/ai-in-the-classroom-not-just-sci-fi-anymore-73a504d4852a…
Effective assessment methods for large enrolment classes
Tips on how to assess students in large classes effectively, including how to use specialist technology to increase efficiency.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/effective-assessment-methods-large-enrolment-classes…
Psychologists create scale for students’ attitudes toward digital educational technologies
RUDN University psychologists have developed a questionnaire to determine how students feel about digital educational technologies. It is one of the first such scales in Russia. The results were published in the journal Computers.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-psychologists-scale-students-attitudes-digital.html…
A Vision of the Future of Online Learning in the Age of AI
In the last year or so the future arrived with a flourish as the latest advance in artificial intelligence, large language models, took the world by storm. But if AI is the unstoppable force, education seems sometimes to be the …