What jobs are we preparing students for by boosting their writing productivity with AI? After shedding 40% of its workforce, the gaming site Gamurs posted an ad last June for an editor to write 250 articles per week. That’s a new article every 10 minutes, at $4.25 per article.
As @novomancy has noted, AI is only the accomplice here. This clickbait nightmare is the logical conclusion of the ad-supported web.
Dear network, I am in the process of designing a lesson study focused on the use of AI for generating feedback to students. I'm eager to gather best practices and learn from your experiences in this field. Have you integrated AI-based feedback tools in your teaching? What strategies have you found most effective, and what challenges should one be aware of? I would appreciate any insights or resources you could share. Thank you! #EducationTechnology#AIinEducation#FeedbackStrategies"
Small update: 🤖⚔️ #ParzivAI - our #GenAI language model specialized in translating #MiddleHighGerman into modern #German, and explaining the #MiddleAges to students - is halfway done with another round of training...
🤖⚔️ @fnieser.bsky.social und ich haben #ParzivAI gebaut. Ein #llm, das auf Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1basiert, und das mit mittelhochdeutscher Literatur finetuned wurde.
Bisher noch Proof of Concept, aber demnächst vllt im Schulunterricht?
AI metaphors lurk even in seemingly innocuous statements like "chatbots don't understand what isn't programmed into their datasets."
Words like "understand" and "programmed" don't reflect what's going on under the hood with large language models.
OK, we can't all say "an overfit embedding yields misleading centroids," but we all do need to recognize metaphor's power and perils. This paper is a good start: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08711
I'm proposing that all educators confronting AI—even writing teachers—ask students to generate an image. Unlike ChatGPT, which comes off as some kind of robot oracle, text-to-image generators show AI capabilities and limits in vivid color 🧵 1/4
UMaine New Media and Computer Science just finished a groundbreaking 4-month experiment comparing AI with traditional digital methods in creative tasks. From essay writing to game design, 50 students tested AI's capabilities head-to-head with conventional tools https://blog.still-water.net/ai-versus-old-school-creativity 🧵1/7
Harvard's metaLab has launched https://aipedagogy.org, a resource chock full of tasty assignments by trailblazers of generative AI in the classroom. (My own "AI Sandwich" is also on the menu.)
I've already stolen Juliana Castro's "Illustrate a Hoax" for my own class!
As a part 3 in my AI for Education series, we look at Magic School AI!! From lesson planning, IEP development and reporting support, this program has everything you need to make planning a breeze! https://youtu.be/AhJ9WaPeIOc
I love this quote from @Linkletter on Turnitin's struggle to stay relevant:
"They're marketing it as a precision product, but they're using dodgy language about how it shouldn't be used to make decisions...They're working at an accelerated pace not because there is any desperation to get the product out but because they're terrified their existing product is becoming obsolete."
Bard's new interface tests each chatbot claim by highlighting whether Google search was able to corroborate it. Playing its AI and search capabilities off each other is a clever business move by Google, but it's also an opportunity for students to understand that factoids fabricated by chatbots are different than citations found on the web.
Back in action after a much-needed vacation! Coming year looks promising with AI set to further revolutionize education. As we step into the future, I’m thrilled to share that this August, I'll be leading workshops for various teacher groups. Together, we'll navigate this exciting new chapter.