Tag: GenAI
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Building an app in a weekend with Claude 3
I’ve mentioned before (here and here) that I know just about enough code to be dangerous, but not enough to make anything very sophisticated. I’m like a kid who’s learned a handful of foreign languages at school. I can order a beer in Python, HTML and CSS, but I can’t really hold a conversation with…
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Teaching AI Writing: Publication
This is the sixth and final post in a series exploring how generative artificial intelligence can be applied to the writing cycle from our book Practical Writing Strategies. If you haven’t already read them, check out the first five posts on purpose, exploration, ideas, skills, and collaboration. Throughout this series, I have tried to demonstrate…
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Teaching AI Writing: Collaboration
This is the fifth post in a series exploring how Generative AI can be incorporated into the writing cycle from our book Practical Writing Strategies. Check out the previous stages of the writing cycle: Purpose, Exploration, Ideas, and Skills. Collaboration in the Writing Cycle By the time students reach this stage in the writing cycle,…
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Teaching AI Writing: Skills
This is the fourth post in a series exploring how generative artificial intelligence can be used as part of the writing cycle. If you haven’t already, check out the previous posts on purpose, exploration and ideas. In the writing cycle that we wrote about in Practical Writing Strategies we break out “skills” as separate from…
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Teaching AI Writing: Ideas
This is the third post in a series exploring how generative artificial intelligence tools can be a part of the writing cycle to help students improve their writing technique, style, and structure. For the previous post on the ‘exploration’ stage, click here. Idea generation can of course happen at any time during the writing process,…
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Teaching AI Writing: Exploration
This is the second post in the series, focusing on how generative artificial intelligence tools, such as text and image generation, can support the writing process. It follows the writing cycle outlined in our book Practical Writing Strategies, emphasising how generative AI can enhance writing skills without relying entirely on technology. For the previous post…
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Teaching AI Writing: Purpose
This is the first post in a series exploring how multimodal generative AI (genAI) writing tools can be applied to all stages of the writing cycle, from purpose through to publication. The six stages of the writing cycle, taken from the book Practical Writing Strategies co-authored by myself and Benjamin White, encourage writers to explore…
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Comments at the Parliamentary Inquiry for Generative AI in Schools
At the end of 2023 I was invited to speak at the Parliamentary Inquiry into the use of generative artificial intelligence in the Australian education system alongside Dr Joanne O’Mara and Emma Jenkins on behalf of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. As part of the inquiry submissions process, VATE conducted a members’…
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Sneak Peak: Practical AI Strategies [Out January 31]
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Practical AI Strategies will be published January 31st by Amba Press and will be available internationally and in both hard copy and digital formats. It’s available for pre-order now and we’ll be holding both in-person and online book launches at the end of the month – more details on those coming soon! For now, here’s…
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The AI Assessment Scale: Version 1
Our new paper updates the original AI Assessment Scale to account for changes in the technology and to make it applicable across disciplines in both K-12 and Higher Education.