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 …
ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence on the Doorstep of College Institutions
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 …
6 Chrome Extensions That Let You Listen to the Radio as You Browse
If you want to tune in to the radio while you search the web, you can do so straight from your browser. Here are six Chrome extensions to use.
Turnitin Integrating AI Writing Detector into Its Products
Plagiarism detection company Turnitin announced that the AI writing detection tool it teased in January will be available as a feature of its existing products as soon as April. According to the company, the tool detects ChatGPT- and GPT 3.0-written …
Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research
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 …
Take your privacy back: How to remove your personal data from people search sites
Removing your personal information from people search sites is getting harder but can be done.
ChatGPT creator Sam Altman says the world may not be ‘that far away from potentially scary’ AI and feels ‘regulation will be critical’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI regulation will be critical as the nascent industry forges ahead.
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-world-not-far-potentially-scary-ai-2023-2
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The 10 Best Harvard Courses You Can Take Online for Free
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/…
‘I want to be human.’ My intense, unnerving chat with Microsoft’s AI chatbot
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 …
Tech Trends Report 2023
This trend report aims to help us understand the technological developments that are going on around us, to make sense of our observations, and to inspire. We have chosen the technology perspective to provide an overview of signals and trends, …
Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing
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 Teams is getting big performance improvements next month
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…
Quantum breakthrough could revolutionise computing
Scientists have come a step closer to making multi-tasking ‘quantum’ computers, far more powerful than even today’s most advanced supercomputers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64492456
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How to Become a Wikipedia Editor
Wikipedia is open for updates from everyone, but did you know you can become an editor? Here’s how to become a Wikipedia editor.
https://www.makeuseof.com/become-wikipedia-editor/…
Professors Try Teaching With TikTok. But It’s Not for ‘Boring, Lecturing Things.’
Hoping to better connect with disengaged students, some professors are experimenting with TikTok in their teaching.