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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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AI in the Writing Process: A Problem of Purpose
When we value the product of writing more than the process, we’re bound to see students using GenAI to skip to the end. So, what are we going to do about it? #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #Writing #AIWriting
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Teachers and writers coming to terms with generative AI
This post is shared from Deakin University’s Research for Educational Impact (REDI) blog. You can find the full article and a new series of articles on the REDI website It’s already a cliché to talk about all the ways GenAI has ‘disrupted’, ‘revolutionised’ or even ‘ended’ certain parts of education. When ChatGPT was released in…
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What Can Lewis Caroll Teach us about GenAI?
Lately I’ve been posting a bit about metaphors, and their use in teaching and critiquing Generative AI products like ChatGPT. As an English teacher first and foremost, I want to find ways to teach with, through, and sometimes against AI that keep students’ voices and educators’ expertise front and centre. And I’m always looking for…
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Writing Against AI: Free Session Resources
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) conference and presenting on ‘Writing Against AI’. I’m a VATE Council member, and it’s always my favourite conference of the year and an opportunity to catch up with English teachers and academics in person. In this brief post,…
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AI and Skills Loss: It’s Not That Simple
A lot of the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in education centres on the idea that AI will inevitably lead to skills loss and that this is an inherently bad thing. Like all hype at both ends of the AI spectrum, both positive and negative, this is an oversimplification, and I think we need to push…
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AI = UX: How GenAI will shape the way we interact with digital technologies
This post discusses the evolution of generative artificial intelligence and its impact on technology interactions. It explores the shift toward AI-first devices, emphasizing future applications and interfaces, particularly in software development and augmented reality. The trend suggests a need for seamless integration of AI into everyday tools, influencing user experiences and preferences.
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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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Teaching AI Ethics: Beginner Series
The Teaching AI Ethics series is a collection of articles on the many ethical concerns of Artificial Intelligence as a technology and an industry. In this series I offer practical advice on how to teach AI through an ethical lens, including discussing AI ethics from the perspective of multiple subject disciplines. When I wrote the…
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What is a ‘Critical Friend’?
As I’m moving towards further study and consulting next year, the most popular service I’ve been asked about has been the ‘critical friend’ role mentioned on my website. It’s an exciting and interesting role because it allows me to work with very diverse schools and requires an ongoing relationship with schools rather than just a…