Category: AI
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Processes are More Important than Prompts
This post outlines five practical steps for using GenAI platforms. Applying expertise, selecting the right model, adding context, using the internet, and iterating and refining are useful skills for working with these technologies.
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GenAI is Normal Edtech
What if AI is “normal” technology? If we don’t have to fear being “left behind”, and if AI will change education not in years, but in decades, how might we rethink our approaches, policies, and pedagogies?
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What Happens When the AI Bubble Bursts?
When the AI bubble bursts – and it will burst – CEOs will be dethroned. Companies will lose billions. The economy – particularly in the US – will take a catastrophic hit. Data centres will suddenly need to downsize their operations and close down entirely. And in education, we’ll need to take yet another long…
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Technology is Actually Pretty Great
Technology is great: it’s the tech industry that’s the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability.
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The AI Assessment Scale: New Peer Reviewed Paper
The AI Assessment Scale (v2) has officially been published in the open access Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (JUTLP). Read more here!
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How (not) to use the AIAS
In our new commentary for the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, we explore everything we have learned after two years of working on the AI Assessment Scale AIAS
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Digital Plastic as a framework for Critical AI Literacy
The concept of “digital plastic” in generative AI highlights its characteristics: cheap, malleable, ubiquitous, and persistent. This framework promotes critical AI literacy through classroom strategies, encouraging purposeful use, awareness of implications, and fostering critical judgement in synthetic media creation.
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What Do Educators Want to Learn About GenAI?
I recently asked a group of around 3000 educators from my mailing list what they’d like to learn about GenAI. I’m incredibly lucky to have feet in a couple of camps as both an early career researcher and a consultant/author. It means I have access to the training and skills for working with lots of…
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Professional Development for AI in Schools: A Three-Dimensional Approach
PD for GenAI isn’t a “one and done” event – it needs to fit with teachers’ existing disciplinary expertise and their deep, contextual understanding of what it means to teach.
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Using Metaphors to Teach Critical AI Literacy
What is Critical AI Literacy, and how might metaphors be used to teach it? We explore these questions in a new Open Access article in JIME.