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.
How to learn new languages quickly with ChatGPT
This guide is designed to show you how to learn new languages quickly with ChatGPT. The landscape of language learning, however, has undergone a transformative shift with the introduction of cutting-edge AI technologies, of which ChatGPT is a prime example.…
How we can use AI to make education amazing
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.
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 …
‘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…
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 …
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: …