Category: Pedagogy
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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.
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Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education
The Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector is the ideal place for experimentation with GenAI, both for educators and for small to medium enterprise owners.
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About, With, Through, Without, Against: Five Ways to Learn AI
Learning about, with, through, without, and against AI are all important for students and educators.
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Lesson planning is a verb: why does tech keep treating it as a noun?
Lesson planning is a process, an action, a verb; but tech companies keep trying to give us buttons that generate products. We need a better approach to technology that values curriculum design.
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Beyond Time-Saving: How GenAI Might Actually Help Teacher Workload
Rather than focusing our attention on “time-saving” and “efficiency”, maybe there are other ways to think about AI and teacher workload. In this article I suggest some alternative areas we could look for improvements, using AI in ways that support human, relational practices in schools.
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“Time Saved” is the Wrong Measurement for Teacher Workload and AI
Recent reports from The Walton Foundation and Microsoft claim teachers using AI can save up to “six weeks” of time over a school year, or between 6-9.5 hours per week. But what does “time saved” actually mean in education? And should we be basing conversations about technology on this obscure, often misleading metric?
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Process > Prompts
The article discusses the evolution of using generative AI tools like ChatGPT in education, emphasising the significance of process over prompts. Key advances include file uploads, image recognition, internet connectivity, code execution, and improved reasoning models. These enhance user interaction, streamline tasks, and facilitate effective resource management in educational settings.
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Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Technologies: A Practical Guide
AI is more than just ChatGPT. Hype around chatbots is distracting us from the really useful technologies which could change lives. In this article, I explore how LLM-based tech and other AI are being used as assistive technologies.
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Three Dimensions of Expertise for AI
Generative AI can be useful, but only when it meets genuine expertise. In this post I outline a three-dimensional model of “Domain, Technological, and Situated” knowledge and argue that the real power of technologies like ChatGPT lies with those who already possess at least one of these strands. I introduce situated expertise: the reflexive, context-aware…