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: …
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.
OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT
The GPT platform is a no-code way to make custom AI agents for all sorts of tasks, and it’s available exclusively for ChatGPT Plus subscribers.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948957/openai-chatgpt-gpt-custom-developer-platform…
How to Use Microsoft Teams for Virtual Training
Among the many tools available, Microsoft Teams stands out as a powerhouse for virtual collaboration and learning. In this post, we’ll look at how to use Microsoft Teams for virtual training and how it can transform learning sessions from mundane …
Guidance for generative AI in education and research
The publication offers concrete recommendations for policy-makers and education institutions on how the uses of GenAI tools can be designed to protect human agency and genuinely benefit students, teachers and researchers.
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…
5 Wonderful Free Day Planner Apps for Your To-Dos, Goals, and Daily Habits
Achieve consistent daily productivity with these free day planner apps to organize your tasks and goals.
https://www.makeuseof.com/free-day-planner-apps-to-organize-to-dos-goals-daily-habits…
How Microsoft’s AI teaching assistant helps generate classroom materials
With the help of Shiksha copilot, a teacher in Bengaluru, India, reports reducing her lesson-planning time from hours to minutes.
24 of the best online MIT courses you can take for free
edX hosts online courses from the most famous educational institutions in the world.
How to ChatGPT-proof Analysis Assignments
In this post, I’m going to show you one easy solution that solves the problem of assuming students will use generative AI by incorporating it into assessments. Keep in mind this is just a sketch using naked ChatGPT. If we …