AI can write poetry and generate images from words. But there’s now an app that connects the two and turns your photos into poetry in a few seconds. If you’ve always wanted to describe a perfect sunset, a blooming flower, …
The Creative Ways Teachers Are Using ChatGPT in the Classroom
When it comes to getting knowledge to stick, there may be no substitute for human relationships. To many teachers, even if they’re getting ready to welcome ChatGPT into the classroom when the doors re-open this year, that’s reason enough not …
100+ EdTech Tools and Websites for Teachers and Students
Below is a list featuring a wide variety of educational technology tools and websites for teachers and students to use in and out of class.
Turnitin AI Detection Rates: 3.3% of 65M Papers Reviewed Were Flagged as Majority AI Writing
Of the more than 65 million student papers reviewed for AI writing by Turnitin’s detection tool since April, more than 2 million — or 3.3% of all papers reviewed — have been flagged as containing 80% or more AI-written text, …
Advice on building your own ecosystem
This is a short simple post but has advice that’s essential to anyone who depends on an internet presence for anything.
How Schools Are Coaching — or Coaxing — Teachers to Use ChatGPT
If educators can reclaim their time by using generative AI to do the mundane tasks, they can get back to doing some of the fun stuff that made them get into teaching,” says one school district director of technology.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2023-08-03-how-schools-are-coaching-or-coaxing-teachers-to-use-chatgpt…
Generative AI and Education: Adopting a Critical Approach
Exploring the impact of GenAI in education through understanding benefits and concerns of AI-generated content.
A New Course Teaches You How to Tap the Powers of ChatGPT and Put It to Work for You
Created by Dr. Jules White, Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT will teach students how to write effective “prompts” (or well-crafted questions) so that they can leverage ChatGPT and other large language models.
Innovating Pedagogy 2023
We are delighted to present our latest Innovating Pedagogy report, co-authored by academics at the Institute of Educational Technology together with researchers from the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Cape Town.
A comparative analysis of the skilled use of automated feedback tools through the lens of teacher feedback literacy
The paper addresses two research questions: Which teacher feedback competencies are necessary for the skilled use of open AF tools? and What does the skilled use of open AF tools add to our conceptions of teacher feedback competencies?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41239-023-00410-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41239-023-00410-9…
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
This guide is opinionated, based on my experience, and focused on how to pick the right tool to do things. I have written separately about the kinds of tasks you may want AI to do, which might be useful to …
6 Online Directories of AI Tools to Discover or Search for the Best AI App
These free directories list all the AI tools available online, so you can browse or search for them quickly and easily.
https://www.makeuseof.com/online-directories-of-ai-tools-search-app/…
To Advance AI Use in Education, Focus on Understanding Educators
A better understanding of educators’ perspectives of emerging education technology, specifically tools that incorporate AI, is essential to unlock the full potential benefits of these innovations.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40593-023-00351-4…
How to Use AI to Create Formative Assessments
Formative is an online assessment platform. Formative’s new AI-powered assessment generator is currently a beta product that anyone with an active Formative account (free or paid) can use.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/06/how-to-use-ai-to-create-formative.html…
New Microsoft Word Features to Note
Mike Tholfsen recently published a video in which he outlined and demonstrated seven new features of Microsoft Word. Five of the seven work in the web version of Word while the other two work in the desktop version of Word.…