Category: AI
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Generative AI doesn’t “democratize creativity”
Last weekend, I saw a LinkedIn post from influential AI-educator Ethan Mollick, in which Mollick presented a YouTube channel of videos created using GenAI. Glaring copyright and IP issues notwithstanding, one thing in particular about the post rubbed me up the wrong way: the term “democratizing” applied to AI and creativity. Mollick shares a lot…
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Some technologies are created with values, others have values thrust upon them
Back in 2023, I wrote an extensive series of articles called Teaching AI Ethics in which I explored nine areas of ethical concerns with artificial intelligence. In those early articles, I argued that it is absolutely necessary to wrestle with the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence, particularly as generative applications such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot,…
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AI Detection in Education is a Dead End
When you live in a research/social media bubble like I do, it’s easy to take certain things for granted. For example, I always overestimate the number of people who are using generative AI regularly in their day to day work. The reality, as of April 2024, is the majority of people within and outside of…
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Coming soon: Practical AI Strategies Online Course
Practical AI Strategies was released in January and has received great reviews from educators in Australia, the US, UK, Europe, South East Asia, and across the world. Over the past couple of months, I have been working on an online course to accompany the book, and it is almost ready to launch. In this post,…
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Term 1 highlights: GenAI in education
Now schools across Australia are heading into (or have already started) their term 1 holidays, I thought it would be a good time to provide a wrap-up of the best posts and resources from the last ten weeks. As always, term 1 has been incredibly busy. If you’re about to go into the holidays, I…
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The AI Assessment Scale: Update and Pilot Study
Before you read on: We have updated the AI Assessment Scale and are now focusing our attention on Version 2. However, we understand that many schools and universities around the world have done great things with the original AI Assessment Scale and we continue to support V1. Make sure to check out both versions to…
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Holding on to what we’ve learned, and letting go of what we’ve lost: Generative AI post lockdowns
This article has been adapted and updated from an earlier piece published in VATE’s Idiom magazine. I know we don’t talk about remote learning any more, but… The first Stage 3 lockdowns came into effect in Victoria over almost four years ago to the day, at midnight March 31st, 2020. Schools had been forewarned, and…
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Artificial Intelligence and Teacher Workload: Can AI Actually Save Educators Time?
Across Australia and internationally, Departments of Education, School Associations, and individual schools and teachers are asking the same question of generative AI: can it solve the teacher workload problem? Over the last 18 months, I’ve seen literally hundreds of ideas discussing how AI can assist with everything from administrative tasks to classroom activities, communications with…
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Goodbye, Google Chrome: Replacing My Mobile Browser for 30 Days with GenAI
Just over a month ago, for reasons I can’t quite remember, I decided to try out a little experiment. I know it stemmed from that vague sense of frustration that Cal Newport claims most (tech) writers suffer at some point: the feeling of being thoroughly, pointlessly addicted to technology. Like pretty much everyone I know,…
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Building an app in a weekend with Claude 3
I’ve mentioned before (here and here) that I know just about enough code to be dangerous, but not enough to make anything very sophisticated. I’m like a kid who’s learned a handful of foreign languages at school. I can order a beer in Python, HTML and CSS, but I can’t really hold a conversation with…