Tag: Automation

• AI Automation: Using Claude to Help Write Python Automations

  

  One of my favourite ways to use GenAI is as a cheap and cheerful automations coder. I’ve written before about how I used ChatGPT to scrape my own blog posts, helping to create a huge bank of resources to use as draft material for Practical AI Strategies. Every time I find myself doing something boring…

  Leon Furze

  May 19, 2024

  AI, Hands On

  AI, Automation, education

• 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…

  Leon Furze

  March 21, 2024

  AI, Pedagogy

  Automation, careers, ChatGPT, curriculum design, data analysis, Generative AI, Professional Development, professional learning networks, strategic planning, teacher workload, TeacherTok, time management

• A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

  

  Like any complex technology, Artificial Intelligence has its roots in a number of fields. From philosophy to computer science, mathematics to linguistics, tracing the history of AI and automation is a difficult business. The field was officially named in the 1950s, but ideas about automated machines have existed since long before then. This is a…

  Leon Furze

  February 11, 2023

  AI, Pedagogy

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