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 MoreDifference engine #2. Photo by Terry Freedman
New issue of Digital Education
The next issue of my newsletter, Digital Education, will be available soon. It contains articles on AI, smartphones, Calvino and more.
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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.
Read MoreQuick look: Parliament Buildings: The architecture of politics in Europe
I suspect that the use of space in parliament buildings will hold some lessons for schools as well.
Read MoreReview: The Liars of Nature and the nature of liars: Cheating and deception in the living world
The key question at the heart of this book is perhaps this – if honesty is the best policy, why is dishonesty so rife in nature?
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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 MoreQuick look: From EdTech to PedTech
Academics tend to write learned articles that, I suspect, are read mainly by other academics, so anything that can translate some of that research into practical advice is to be welcomed.
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 MoreArtificial Intelligence in the Classroom Revisited -- updated with comments in response to Miguel Guhlin
In my opinion, the potential benefits of artificial intelligence make it a very attractive proposition for use in education. Since republishing this article, I commented on a post by Miguel, who then responded with another blog post citing mine. His article takes mine a few steps further, because he asked ChatGPT to advise him on how to give feedback to some work.
Read MoreComing soon* Review of A Little History of Music
I recently reviewed this book for Teach Secondary magazine.
Read MoreExperiment in style -- with AI
I’ve been experimenting with writing the same simple story in a variety of styles. I thought I would ask ChatGPT to write it. Here’s the result, along with a comparison of my own attempt.
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 MoreReview: Sensational: A new story of our senses, by Ashley Ward
Research apparently shows we may actually have up to 50 senses, and even that figure isn’t universally agreed upon.
Read MoreReview: The A-Z of Great Classrooms, by Roy Blatchford
I’m personally yet to be convinced by the benefits of dictation, and the idea of teaching English via a cross-curricular approach has been tried with less than satisfactory results. Nevertheless, this is a great source of ideas.
Read MoreThe next edition of Digital Education will contain... (corrected version)
(Formatting error corrected) “…as AI algorithms became more sophisticated, they began to mimic the writer's unique style seamlessly, subsequently rendering the human writer obsolete.”
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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