Tag: Natural language processing

• Secondary School Assessment and Artificial Intelligence

  

  When ChatGPT landed on our doorsteps in November 2022, it largely slipped beneath the education radar. By the time term 1 2023 rolled around, however, it’s fair to say that the situation had changed. Most states in Australia banned the technology in Department schools, and those bans remained in place for several months. Despite the…

  Leon Furze

  June 13, 2023

  AI, assessment, Digital

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• 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

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• Teaching Writing in the Age of AI

  

  With Victoria the latest state to ban ChatGPT, teachers everywhere are grappling with the implications of the large language model and the impact it will have on the classroom. We know that banning and blocking technology is – at best – a temporary solution. Students will find ways around the blocks, and teachers will be…

  Leon Furze

  February 6, 2023

  AI, writing

  AI, AI in education, AI-assisted learning, AI-powered classrooms, assessment, ChatGPT, ChatGPT in education, classroom innovation, curriculum, digital education, e-learning, education, educational AI, educational technology, english, machine learning, Natural language processing, online learning, personalized learning, strategies, student engagement, teaching, virtual classrooms, writers, writing

• 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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• Creative but critical: How educators can learn to live with AI

  

  December 2022 represented a step-change in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. With the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, suddenly the whole world (or at least the millions of users who logged in within a week of its launch) were talking about Large Language Models. LLMs represent just a portion of AI technologies, but ChatGPT shifted the public…

  Leon Furze

  January 29, 2023

  AI

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• Teaching AI Ethics

  

  Update: since I wrote this original post covering the nine areas, I’ve expanded each one into a complete article. Have a read through this post, and then when you’re ready to dive deeper into AI ethics, check out the full series here. If you linked to this post as part of a course or university…

  Leon Furze

  January 26, 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

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• ChatGPT in Education: Back to Basics

  

  Chances are slim by now that you haven’t heard of ChatGPT. Every major news outlet from the Guardian to the Herald Sun has run articles on OpenAI’s latest offering, and it has featured heavily on social media newsfeeds across Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. I’ve written a lot of posts lately about ChatGPT in education, and…

  Leon Furze

  January 17, 2023

  AI

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• Getting Motivated for the Personal Response

  

  This post refers to the new VCE English and EAL Study Design. However, the ideas about personal writing can be applied anywhere in the English curriculum where students are expected to respond personally to texts. Many schools in Victoria will be preparing for the new Unit 1 Reading and Exploring Texts outcome, the Personal Response.…

  Leon Furze

  January 7, 2023

  AI, curriculum, VCE, writing

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