Tag: critical thinking

• Critic, creator, consumer: A framework for using (or being used by) GenAI

  

  In the past 18 months, multimodal generative AI has become increasingly ubiquitous, influencing the way many create and interact with content across various domains, including text, image, audio, and video. While generative AI doesn’t “democratise creativity“, it will impact upon many creative and academic areas. As these technologies continue to advance and permeate our daily…

  Leon Furze

  April 30, 2024

  AI, Critical Perspectives

  AI, ChatGPT, consumer, creativity, creator, critical thinking, education, GenAI, Generative AI

• Rethinking Assessment for Generative AI: Beyond the Essay

  

  This post is part of a series on rethinking assessment in light of generative AI. The posts draw on research and resources from K-12 and tertiary to suggest ways that educators can design engaging, compelling assessments which shift the narrative away from GAI and “cheating”. Click here for the previous post on oral assessments. There…

  Leon Furze

  October 4, 2023

  AI, Assessment

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• Rethinking Assessment for Generative AI: Orals and discussions

  

  This post is part of a series on rethinking assessment in light of generative AI. The posts draw on research and resources from K-12 and tertiary to suggest ways that educators can design engaging, compelling assessments which shift the narrative away from GAI and “cheating”. In a previous post, I talked about the risks associated…

  Leon Furze

  September 27, 2023

  AI, Assessment

  Academic Integrity, Adobe Firefly, Adrian Cotterell, AI in education, AI-assisted learning, assessment innovation, assessment methods, Assessment Practices, Canva, chatbots, code generation, communication skills, critical thinking, debate in education, digital divide, discussion in education, edtech, education reform, education technology, Eliana Elkhoury, error correction, essay helpers, ethical issues, GAI benefits, Generative AI, Grattan Institute, high-stakes assessments, Immediate Feedback, interview assessments, K-12 education, knowledge demonstration, language barriers, learning conference, learning reflection, NAPLAN, Nick Parkinson, oral assessments, oral presentations, peer feedback, personalized feedback, personalized learning, pitch assessments, PowerPoint, presentation tools, progress tracking, prototype development, Sandra Milligan, Sindija Franzetti, social enterprises, Stuart Mitchell, student anxiety, student engagement, student preparation, summative assessments, technology acknowledgment, technology in classrooms, technology integration, Tertiary education, University of Melbourne, viva assessments, vocabulary expansion, Young Change Agents

• The AI Assessment Scale: From no AI to full AI

  

  AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have kicked the hornet’s nest in education. From articles declaring the “end of everything” (writing, the English classroom, the entire education system…) to claims that AI will revolutionise education, we’ve seen the full spectrum of hype. What we’re yet to see much of, however, are practical solutions for dealing with…

  Leon Furze

  April 29, 2023

  AI, Assessment, assessment, Digital

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• Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Reinventing English

  

  This is the fifth and final post in the series Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. Check out the other posts in the series: In this series, I’ve explored how teaching writing might change as the adoption of Artificial Intelligence accelerates. Late 2022 was a watershed moment in AI, with ChatGPT pushing generative AI…

  Leon Furze

  February 27, 2023

  AI, AI Writing, assessment, curriculum, writing

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• Advanced Techniques for ChatGPT in education

  

  In a previous post on Practical Strategies for ChatGPT, I explored some of the basics of prompting the AI language model. I also organised education tasks into six areas: In this post I’ll go deeper into prompt techniques, and I’m organising around five key skills that could be used to lift your prompts in any…

  Leon Furze

  February 1, 2023

  AI

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• Practical Strategies for ChatGPT in education

  

  ChatGPT isn’t the first AI language model, but it’s definitely the one that has taken AI mainstream. Beyond the media hype about cheating, there are some very practical uses for these new technologies for teachers. This post covers six areas where teachers could use ChatGPT with examples of the kinds of prompt you can use…

  Leon Furze

  January 23, 2023

  AI, Pedagogy

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• Socrates Against The Machine: Can Looking Back Help Us to Think About the Future of Education?

  

  Socrates Against The Machine: Can Looking Back Help Us to Think About the Future of Education? In the past two weeks, AI writing has gone mainstream. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an app sitting on top of its latest large language model, was released for “public testing”, and it seems to have captured the imagination of a large chunk…

  Leon Furze

  December 13, 2022

  AI, writing

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