Oh, bother. Can’t they get the study right? Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes? The answer is not so simple. You will want to read the whole piece: “when taking notes by hand, “it is impossible to write down everything, so students have to process the incoming …
Having been in Ed Tech for quite a while (1990s), and having witnessed a few Ed Tech failures firsthand, I asked AI to compile a list after seeing Ben Williamson’s on LinkedIn. After all, many solutions may be “fake gold” or “false gold” that many are selling as a real …
Proton reports the following about a CPSEnergy.com data breach which I haven’t heard of yet (to the best of my recollection) from CPSenergy: Dark Web Monitoring promptly notifies you when your personal information has been exposed on the dark web. This occurs when another service you use …
This is shocking, even if not unexpected or a surprise…our technologies are always listening, selling us out even when they say to us, “We may be listening but your data is safe with us.” Apple has agreed to pay $95M to resolve a decade-long lawsuit, accusing its virtual …
Fascinating… Evolutionary changes over many generations could well change or even diminish some of the human traits we cherish most, including friendship, intimacy, communication, trust and intelligence, because these are the traits AI engages most profoundly. via LiveScience
OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool may be open to manipulation using hidden content, and can return malicious code from websites it searches, a Guardian investigation has found. via Nick Evershed
This was a shocker to read today: “Everyone knows a teacher, firefighter, law enforcement officer, nurse or public worker who’s paid into Social Security year after year, only to have their payments curbed by the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset when they retire. Now, …
“When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.” – The Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson via Elisabeth Glassco
This quote from Nathaniel Myers: “I want them to undergo the writing process for themselves in ways that aren’t immediately turning to a tool that’s helping them write, because there’s value in the friction that’s a part of that work and learning that happens in writing without those tools,” Myers …
An impulse purchase, I picked up a copy of Tanner Campbell’s and Kai Whiting’s book, What is Stoicism? A brief and accessible overview. I’ve read some of Ryan Holiday’s stuff, as well as various translations of Epictetus' work (not Discourses, though). Tanner was kind enough …
Associate Professor Jonathan Boymal highlights a new study. Here is one excerpt that jumps out me: The Expertise Paradox: “The paradox of expertise is that while generative Al assists in executing tasks requiring lower-level thinking skills, this advantage paradoxically hinders a learner’s …
I shared this poem with my daughter. I got a laugh and a moment of reflection… Text in Image Here’s the text from the image: Title: “IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE” Author: DANIELLE COFFYN (from North Meridian Review) There would be a parade, a celebration, a holiday to commemorate the …
What Is the First Thing Remarkably Successful People Do? Figure Out Which Game They’re Actually Playing Then you can determine how to win the game you not only want to play, but need to play. …
As a whole, this piece (Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies) was unconvincing. I found it stuffy, ivory towerish, and yet…the longer I reflect on it, the more little pieces of it grow on me. Critical Thinking One example includes this quote from Vee, as cited: “Large language models such as ChatGPT …
Where we were apart, we are now together, a dense mesh of possibility. -Stephen Downes Love this quote! For me, it highlights the importance of reconciliation.
Our new report, “The Dawn of the AI Era: Teens, Parents, and the Adoption of Generative AI at Home and School” – out today – shows that teens are quickly adopting generative AI, similar to how they embraced social media. But many parents are behind on how often their kids …
“The most surprising thing was that the whole brain was active when they were writing by hand, [while] much smaller areas were active when they were typewriting,” van der Meer says. “This suggests that when you are writing by hand you are using most of your brain to get the job done.” Moreover, …
An AI summary of Paris Marx' article, ** Roundup: Will generative AI have many long-term benefits?** 5 key points • ChatGPT may harm students' math learning by acting as a crutch rather than improving skills. • AI assistants in medical imaging can significantly reduce radiologists' accuracy when …
The following is summarized by AI from Rachel Wells' article, ** 3 AI Trends That Will Impact Your Job In 2024** Five Key Points • AI is expected to automate routine tasks, allowing workers to focus on more complex and creative aspects of their jobs. • Personalized AI assistants will become more …
A longtime user of Proton’s version of secure, encrypted Mail, Proton Drive storage, as well as the original Google Docs (even before Google acquired it), I was pleased to see this announcement: What? Proton now adds word processor to their stable of products? Great! I can’t tell you how …
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being …
…when students rely on a generative A.I. tool like ChatGPT to outsource brainstorming and writing, they may be losing the ability to think critically and to overcome frustration with tasks that don’t come easily to them. …what troubles Martin more than some students’ shrewd academic …
Announced a few days ago… A free survey course on LLMs, taught by practitioners…[on] Mastering LLMs, a set of workshops and talks from practitioners on topics like evals, retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG), fine-tuning and more. Learn more
Not that anyone cares except myself and a few friends, but I added to, and updated, my list of Windows programs, iOS smartphone apps, and browser extensions. Find it online.
Middle school girls from the Columbia area attended Geoscience Summer Camp for Girls on July 10-11. The camp focused on natural disasters and how geoscientists are able to provide data and aid during these events. The camp is the brainchild of Aída Guhlincozzi, who started it during her grad school …