Tag: technology
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AI Principles to Practical Strategies: How Schools Can Apply the National AI Framework
The draft schools AI framework for education is currently open for feedback, alongside a House Standing Committee parliamentary inquiry into Generative Artificial Intelligence in education. The draft framework represents an important step for schools trying to adapt to the challenges and opportunities of Generative AI. I’ve been working with schools on developing their own…
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The AI Assessment Scale: From no AI to full AI
AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have kicked the hornet’s nest in education. From articles declaring the “end of everything” (writing, the English classroom, the entire education system…) to claims that AI will revolutionise education, we’ve seen the full spectrum of hype. What we’re yet to see much of, however, are practical solutions for dealing with…
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Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Reinventing English
This is the fifth and final post in the series Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. Check out the other posts in the series: In this series, I’ve explored how teaching writing might change as the adoption of Artificial Intelligence accelerates. Late 2022 was a watershed moment in AI, with ChatGPT pushing generative AI…
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Using ChatGPT for Conferencing and Feedback
I’ve used conferencing for years as my main form of feedback and assessment. I stopped collecting piles of books, stopped writing margin notes that no-one ever read, and stopped correcting work like a human spell-checker. Aside from the hours of time saved by not “correcting” work, I also built stronger relationships with students as a…
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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…
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Teaching AI Ethics
As we head into the start of Term 1 it’s already looking like Artificial Intelligence is going to be one of the most talked about issues in the classroom. Much of the narrative around models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT has centred on students using it to cheat on assignments. But I’ve already been working with schools…
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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…
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Beyond Cheating: Why the ban and block narrative hides the real threats of ChatGPT in education
If you’re not familiar with this technology and you’d like to understand the basics about AI, large language models, and ChatGPT, then check out this post first. This post is part of a series exploring ways we could (and ways we shouldn’t) bring large language models like ChatGPT into education. The first post, ‘Beyond Efficiency’…
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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…
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I built an AI Section C generator and the world did not end
If you’ve read any online news recently you’d be forgiven for thinking that we’ve already been back at school for six months, and that ChatGPT has successfully destroyed the education system, killed the essay, and turned every one of our students into a compulsive plagiarist. I’ve written a number of posts about ChatGPT and AI…