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 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.
The AI Pedagogy Project
A collection of assignments and materials inspired by the humanities, for educators curious about how AI affects their students and their syllabi.
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 …
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…
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…
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…
The best Black Friday deals under $100
We found a range of discounted gadgets and goods that’ll make for great presents, from the Echo Pop and Fitbit Charge 6 to the Fujifilm Instax Mini 12 and even a pair of AirPods.
https://www.theverge.com/23965961/black-friday-2023-tech-deals-under-100-cyber-monday…
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.
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: …
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…
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 …
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…
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.”
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 …