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.
The best Black Friday deals under $100
We found a range of discounted gadgets and goods that’ll make for great presents, from the Echo Pop and Fitbit Charge 6 to the Fujifilm Instax Mini 12 and even a pair of AirPods.
https://www.theverge.com/23965961/black-friday-2023-tech-deals-under-100-cyber-monday…
ChatGPT voice communication is now free for everyone
If you find typing out your communications with ChatGPT a little tiresome. You might be interested to know that OpenAI has announced it has made its ChatGPT voice communication feature available to everyone for free.
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/chatgpt-voice-available-to-everyone-for-free…
Amazon Is Offering AI Classes for Free
Whether you’re a coder or a total beginner, Amazon might have an AI class for you.
https://lifehacker.com/tech/amazon-offering-ai-classes-for-free…
Screen Time Literally Changes Young Kids’ Brains
Whether it’s with TV, iPads, or smartphones, scientists have confirmed in a new study that screen time changes how a child’s brain grows and functions — often for the worst.
https://www.fatherly.com/health/tablets-smartphones-terrible-kids-who-will-never-stop-using-them…
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 …
The AI Pedagogy Project
A collection of assignments and materials inspired by the humanities, for educators curious about how AI affects their students and their syllabi.
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.
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…
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 …
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 …
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.”
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…
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 …
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…