Tag: Generative AI
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GenAI Strategy: Bullets then Cannonballs
This post is part of a series exploring how faculty leaders can develop generative artificial intelligence strategies specific to disciplines in K-12 and higher education. The first post gave an overview of the strategic planning process. The next post followed up by encouraging you to attack your assessments. If you haven’t already, you should read…
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GenAI Strategy: Attack Your Assessments
This post is part of a series exploring how faculty and middle leaders can begin to think strategically about Generative AI. In the previous post, I gave an overview of a six-step strategy, beginning with establishing a clear vision. In this post, I’m going to go deeper into attacking your assessments. UPDATE: Less than 24…
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GenAI Strategy for Faculty Leaders
When I work with K-12 schools, the approach to generative artificial intelligence (AI) guidelines generally begins with an audit of current policy documents that relate to digital technologies, such as user agreements, cyber safety policies, and communications. The goal is to identify areas where GenAI needs to be taken into account, without necessarily writing entirely…
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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…
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Good ideas: When to use GenAI for brainstorming
Applying Generative AI like ChatGPT and Copilot to brainstorming is one of the most touted uses, and there are plenty of situations where the technology is well-suited to idea generation. At the same time, it’s not always a great idea to offload the creative process to GenAI. In this post, I’ll explore a few different…
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Making meaning with multimodal GenAI
As much as Generative Artificial intelligence has caused waves in education, the focus in research and publications on the impact of GenAI is still squarely on text-based models and in particular ChatGPT. That’s understandable considering the impact OpenAI’s chatbot had almost immediately from its launch November 2022. But by focusing attention on large language models…
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Generative AI doesn’t “democratize creativity”
Last weekend, I saw a LinkedIn post from influential AI-educator Ethan Mollick, in which Mollick presented a YouTube channel of videos created using GenAI. Glaring copyright and IP issues notwithstanding, one thing in particular about the post rubbed me up the wrong way: the term “democratizing” applied to AI and creativity. Mollick shares a lot…
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AI Detection in Education is a Dead End
When you live in a research/social media bubble like I do, it’s easy to take certain things for granted. For example, I always overestimate the number of people who are using generative AI regularly in their day to day work. The reality, as of April 2024, is the majority of people within and outside of…
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Coming soon: Practical AI Strategies Online Course
Practical AI Strategies was released in January and has received great reviews from educators in Australia, the US, UK, Europe, South East Asia, and across the world. Over the past couple of months, I have been working on an online course to accompany the book, and it is almost ready to launch. In this post,…
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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…