Last year Doug and Laura were proud to contribute to a paper called "Promoting Informed #Citizenship in a Connected World: Advancing Media and Information #Literacy." Now we have some capacity and would love to do some more intellectual noodling on #mediaeducation#ailiteracy#edtech#openrecognition#community etc. If you have #research projects and want some help, get in touch!
We updated our Library on our website about AI Literacy https://buff.ly/4at9yeq head over to see a list of papers, articles and posts that we are currently reading.
As impressive as Musk's solitary NeuraLink demo is, beneath the hype lies a misperception with a disturbing parallel to large language models. Both operate on statistical inference rather than scientific models of the brain, and garner attention for cherrypicked successes 1/3
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
'After months of research and tri-campus collaboration with Ann Arbor and Dearborn, [University of Michigan-Flint Office of Online & Digital Education] launched the Generative AI Prompt Literacy course. The course is free, delivered online asynchronously, and shares the hows and whys of constructing effective AI prompts to leverage this transformative technology fully.'