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As it happens, I first addressed this question in 2012, and the first part of this essay, down to the part about robots, is taken from the notes I made then. My opinion hasn’t changed, in spite of the enormous strides in AI in the last twelve years.
Read MoreI have a course coming up, one that I’m teaching. I asked an AI writer to draft a press release for it. Here’s what it came up with, with my annotations in italics and in square brackets.
Read MoreThis resource comprises a number of prompts to kickstart a discussion in your classroom about AI and its effects in society.
Read MoreSessions include how schools can use AI effectively, curriculum and teaching methods, and assessment.
Read MoreI've experimented with AI a lot, especially ChatGPT and Perplexity, for generating course outlines and even creating quite probing assessment tasks.
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Difference engine #2. Photo by Terry Freedman
We need to know how an AI decision-making tool arrives at it's conclusions, which might be hard given that even the designers of these tools don't always know.
Read MoreIn this article I bring my AI experiment to its logical conclusion. I’ve asked AI to create personas for my blog, asked it to suggest some article titles, and selected an article and asked it to write an outline of points to be covered. In this article, I asked it to write the article.
Read MoreIn preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In this phase I used a blog outline generator.
Read MoreIn preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In the first part I used ChatGPT to develop a few personas, ie representatives of my target readership. In this article I report on using AI to generate ideas for blog posts.
Read MoreA development that I think is potentially interesting is the embedding of generative AI in the tools we already use.
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The scream by Terry Freedman
I checked if my websites had been scraped, and this what I discovered…
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From Tom Gauld’s Revenge of the Librarians
A depressing future for writers?
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My depiction of ChatGPT getting more and more frazzled by the number of assignments I throw at it — Drawing by Terry Freedman
Yes, it’s all over the internet, but ChatGPT is still worth looking at. I am compiling a list of useful (I trust) links, and have a few things to add to the plethora of comments already out there.
Read MoreI’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT to write course outlines, and for one of the courses I compared the result with the outlines I had already written (and taught to). The results were interesting.
Read MoreI asked ChatGPT to write some dialogue advertising my newsletter in the style of a 1930s wise guy gangster.
Here’s what it came up with….
Read MoreI asked ChatGPT, and here’s what it said…
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Section of an artcile records spreadsheet, by Terry Freedman
Although I haven’t been overly impressed with ChatGPT as a creative force, I have to say that I am impressed with it as an alternative to Google.
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On This Day, by Terry Freedman
What if intelligent computers decide to look after us, and protect us from ourselves?
Read MoreAs ChatGPT is on everybody’s lips at the moment, I thought I’d revisit an article I wrote several years ago.
Read MoreDispatches from the Chalkface is an important book because it provides a rare, inside look at the day-to-day reality of teaching in a classroom. Terry Freedman, the author, is a veteran teacher with over 30 years of experience, and in this book he shares his insights and wisdom gained from years of working with students.
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