Oh oh, goodbye Facebook. Time to bid my education Facebook account, Instagram, Threads adieu. Good riddance. Since I only post education stuff, who knows how I offended the Facebook daemons. Update 8/29/2024 Two days later, it appears I am allowed back on Facebook: In a surprising turn, I’ve …
This was a really interesting set of pie graphs from a SectionSchool webinar featuring Greg Shove I attended this week. It’s based on a survey from April, 2024 of 1300+ knowledge workers in the US, UK, and Canada. Special thanks to my boss for suggesting it. AI Usage This first one refers to …
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 …
From Dr. Pamela Snow: Fences at the top of the cliff, not ambulances at the bottom. Every. Time.
…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 …
This is sure to be a hot topic for many of us in ed tech spaces. This online publication frames the issue as one between teachers vs parents. For the teachers, it’s about eliminating distractions. For the parents, it’s about staying in contact with their children in an environment rife …
support students in generating high quality notes and help them to engage in paraphrasing, for example, by supplying them with graphical organizers or pre-questions in advance of the lecture to help students organize their thoughts and focus their attention Via …
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
Summary by Perplexity.ai The article “Just Did Some Professional Development – Now What?” by Rick Wormeli, hosted on the AMLE website, outlines several strategies educators can use to effectively process and apply the content and skills acquired during professional development (PD) …
This chart is a great tool for reflection as all of us use AI and other technology. Via axbom.com/aielements
How to Write with Style: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word – The Marginalian The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
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 …
“…the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting” (Plutarch). Assessment in the face of AI continues to be such a huge concern. This article suggests assessment has been flawed from the beginning and relying on the most convenient approach. That …
Anyone know how to post Micro.blog Bookmarks via RSS or get an RSS feed for Bookmarks?
Will AI really save time overall or just push us to complete tasks more quickly so we can do more tasks without saving time? If you have eight hours, you finish 20 tasks instead of the usual ten, but you still work your full eight hours or more. No time is saved unless you hold to the same total …
This piece in Forbes by Dan Fitzpatrick makes some interesting points about assessment, quoting several educators. I admit that I have not given assessment as much thought as I should when considering AI. A simplistic perspective is that we write to learn and think through ideas. If you take a …
This is concerning: Project 2025 operationalizes the tenets of white Christian nationalism on such issues as climate change, education, immigration, systemic racism, and abortion. To stand silent on the sidelines is to contribute to the harm that will come to democracy and to religion should …
We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy. Via When the Terms of Service Change to Make Way for A.I. Training - The New York Times
Woohoo, as you can see above, Claude now lets you organize your chat support documents, or whatever you want to call them, into “Projects.” Here’s an explainer video from Claude.ai on the subject. An explanation from Claude: Projects help organize your work and leverage knowledge …
For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except for firsthand experience, almost everything we knew was passed on by word of mouth. As in the children’s game “Telephone,” over tens and hundreds of …
This morning, while reading this response on Threads on my new, consolidated account, I found myself wondering, “How many resources does Perplexity, or Claude or ChatGPT, consume when I ask a simple question, like, ‘What’s the scientific consensus on XYZ?” And, should I even …
“What the hand does, the mind remembers." Not sure where I ran into this quote, but what a cool quote it is. Of course, it’s a reference to handwriting and all that. Last week, when I started looking for more information about handwriting, I realized that I had bits of handwriting …