Author: Rafael Scapin

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/…

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 …

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 …

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/…

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 …

Removing your personal information from people search sites is getting harder but can be done. 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2023/02/19/how-remove-your-personal-information-people-search-sites/11258006002/…

That’s an alarming quote to start a headline with, but it was even more alarming to see that response from Bing Chat itself. After signing up for the lengthy waitlist to access Microsoft’s new ChatGPT-powered Bing chat, I finally received …

Harvard is one of the most prestigious schools, but did you know it offers some online courses you can take for free? Here are ten of the best.

https://www.makeuseof.com/best-free-harvard-courses-online/…

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…

Microsoft has rebuilt Teams from the ground up to improve its performance on PCs and laptops.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/20/23607037/microsoft-teams-performance-improvements-less-cpu-memory…

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. A group of professors …