Tag: student engagement

• 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

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• UNESCO Guidelines for Generative AI: Practical Applications for Schools

  

  Following Digital Learning Week in Paris, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization published a comprehensive document containing guidelines for Generative AI (GAI) in education and research, and exploring the implications for policy. The guidelines are linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals through Goal 4: ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote…

  Leon Furze

  September 12, 2023

  AI, assessment, curriculum, Digital, Ethics, Strategy & Governance

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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, AI Writing, writing

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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, Critical Perspectives

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