It’s almost unheard of for me to read advertorials or sponsored posts, especially when the words “Advertisement” appears in small print somewhere other than the headline. But the title made me curious.
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A lesson, by Terry Freedman
50 features of excellent ICT and Computing lessons
What makes an excellent ICT or Computing lesson? In this document I've tried to encapsulate the answer to that question.
Read MoreAuthentic Learning and ICT (Update 2023)
To the casual listener, stride piano, boogie woogie piano and rock-n-roll piano all sound pretty much the same. Yet Fats Waller, perhaps the most famous stride pianist, detested boogie woogie.
Read MoreWhy Are ICT Lessons Boring? The Start of the Lesson (Update 2023)
If I had to choose just one causal factor to focus on, as to why students find ICT lessons boring, it would be the start of the lesson.
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New online blogging course
I will be running another online course in blogging in the evenings of the 17th and 24th November 2023.
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Ada Lovelace Day 2023
Here are some resources/links you might find useful for Ada Lovelace Day. I think it’s a good idea to not think just in terms of the day itself, but of how you can build on it for future lessons.
Read MoreUsing spreadsheets or Python to process words
A couple of people and I started to discuss how we might use technology to process a block of text.
Read MoreBut where’s the pen?
Spaces and learning; spaces should be designed according to the kind of learning that people would like to experience in them.
Read MoreBlogging with artificial intelligence Part 4
In 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 MoreBlogging with artificial intelligence Part 3
In 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 MoreBlogging with artificial intelligence Part 2
In 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 MoreBlogging with Artificial Intelligence Part 1
In 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 first part I report on using ChatGPT to create a few personas.
Read MoreGenerative AI experiments 1
A 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
Is your website contributing to AI bots?
I checked if my websites had been scraped, and this what I discovered…
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Review of the hieroglyphs exhibition
Taking place at the British Museum in London, the exhibition could be used to provide interesting perspectives or links to several subjects — including programming.
Read MoreCan ChatGPT write decent course outlines?
I’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.
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Section of an artcile records spreadsheet, by Terry Freedman
Using ChatGPT as a search engine
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.
Read MoreBack to the future: a data security issue? Updated
An interesting and lighthearted look at some of the problems arising from the Back to the Future movies.
Read MoreFirewall Foibles, And How I Survived Them Revisited
It was when my wireless router told me that there was no printer on the network that I finally flipped.
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Someone suffering from FOMO, by Terry Freedman
7 incredibly useful links
These links were first highlighted in the Digital Education newsletter.
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