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.
ChatGPT To Replace Teachers? Check OpenAI’s Big Plan To Revolutionise Classroom Teaching
While ChatGPT has quickly acquired ubiquity, there has been analysis from certain teachers who worry about its effect on their jobs and express worries about possible misuse.
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…
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: …
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.
‘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…
Using Technological Tools to Develop Students’ Attitudes Rather Than Skills
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…