Category: AI
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Deep dive with the AI Assessment Scale: Level 2
This is the second post in a series exploring the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) in more detail. In the previous post, I looked at Level 1: No AI. This time we move up a level and explore how students might deliberately incorporate Generative AI into the brainstorming, ideations and structuring of their work. Before I…
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Deep dive with the AI Assessment Scale: Level 1
2024 will see GenAI powered apps, chatbots, and maybe even physical devices enter our classrooms – whether we ant them there or not. Since the release of ChatGPT, assessment and academic integrity have been among the highest concerns regarding GenAI in education. Whether or not that should be the case (and in other articles I’ve…
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What is Multimodal Generative Artificial Intelligence?
The term multimodal generative intelligence is getting thrown around a lot recently – even more so now that the most popular models like GPT have added features like image recognition and generation. But what does ‘multimodal’ actually mean? What is “Multimodal”? Although the term “multimodal” might seem self-explanatory, there’s more to it than you might…
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Sneak Peak: Practical AI Strategies [Out January 31]
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Practical AI Strategies will be published January 31st by Amba Press and will be available internationally and in both hard copy and digital formats. It’s available for pre-order now and we’ll be holding both in-person and online book launches at the end of the month – more details on those coming soon! For now, here’s…
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Back to School with Generative AI: A FAQ for Schools and Universities
If 2023 was the year Generative AI dropped on us from a great height, then 2024 looks like the year for the tech to grow out of its “move fast and break things” phase. In education, it’s time to have some serious conversations about where we go from here. In 2025, I wrote a similar…
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The AI Assessment Scale: Version 1
Our new paper updates the original AI Assessment Scale to account for changes in the technology and to make it applicable across disciplines in both K-12 and Higher Education.
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Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools: A good start, but much more to be done
The final version of the Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools has been published, offering six core principles and twenty-five guiding statements for schools seeking to use generative AI. But will it help? Since February 2023, Australian Education Ministers have been working on a Framework for GenAI in consultation with unions, teachers, students, industry,…
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AI Q&A: Steve Brophy and Using GenAI for Spec Fic in the Classroom
This post is the second in a series of Q&A interviews with educators working with generative AI. These posts will explore K-12 and tertiary perspectives of teachers, academics, and professionals who are grappling with the implications of these new technologies. Steve Brophy is Director of Digital Transformation at Ivanhoe Grammar School in Melbourne. He and…
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Artificial Intelligence in the Australian Curriculum
Earlier this year I had the privilege of providing some “critical friend” feedback during the development of ACARA’s Artificial Intelligence Curriculum Connection. In this post, I’ll explore some of the updates and where they overlap with the Australian Curriculum v9, as well as provided a (ChatGPT powered) TL;DR: of the content. Last week, the Australian…
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Science Fiction Worldbuilding with Generative AI
It’s been a while since I made a creative post highlighting some of the creative multimodal capabilities of GenAI. It can be easy to get swept up in the drama of recent events like OpenAI’s board firing its CEO (and his subsequent possible flight to Microsoft, or return to OpenAI…). It’s also easy to focus…