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 …
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 …
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…
‘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.”
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.
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 …
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…
Will ChatGPT change our definitions of cheating?
We can’t yet know if we have a full taxonomy of ChatGPT-enhanced mischief, or whether certain uses should be classed as mischief at all, writes Tom Muir.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/will-chatgpt-change-our-definitions-cheating…
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 …
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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.