Tag: Educators

• The AI Iceberg: Understanding ChatGPT

  

  Analogies are useful for understanding complex ideas, and there are plenty of complexities for educators trying to wrap their heads around ChatGPT. In this post, I’ll try to explain some of the features of the chatbot and the model it’s built on top of. I’m deliberately avoiding any kind of analogy that represents the AI…

  Leon Furze

  May 18, 2023

  AI, Digital, education

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• Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Assessment and “Cheating”

  

  This is the fourth post in a series on Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. The first post provided an overview of some of the changes we’re facing as the number of AI writing tools increases. Post two covered conversations about academic integrity, and the third post offered some practical advice on teaching students…

  Leon Furze

  February 18, 2023

  AI, assessment, curriculum, Digital, education, reading, VCE, writing

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