MagicSchool thinks AI in the classroom is inevitable, so it's aiming to help teachers and students use it properly | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com These days, when you hear about students and generative AI, chances are that you’re getting a taste of the debate over the adoption of tools like ChatGPT.
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Polygenic scores as political technologies in educational genomicscodeactsineducation.wordpress.com Genomic technologies are being used to study the genetic basis of educational outcomes, and generate proposals for genetically-informed education policy. Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash...
500 job cuts and no cash for books or coffee at universitywww.nottinghampost.com The University of Nottingham has enacted a wide-ranging set of cutbacks after its leaders became aware it was hurtling towards a financial year end budget gap
Born sloppyrobhorning.substack.com There has been a push recently to christen unwanted generative content as “slop”: This New York Times piece by Benjamin Hoffman, for example, defines “slop” as “a broad term that has developed some tr...
AI Instructional Design Must Be More Than a Time Saveropen.substack.com This post is the seventh and final essay in the Beyond ChatGPT series about generative AI’s impact on learning. A recap and next steps is forthcoming. For this final post, I’m going to focus on modeli...
Photographer takes on the machines in AI competition – and winswww.theguardian.com Miles Astray subverts trend of artificial pictures muscling in on human photography, but is disqualified
ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...
William Davies · Anticipatory Anxiety: Generation Anxietywww.lrb.co.uk To be young today is to face the future – the planet’s as well as one’s own – at a time when social safety nets...
Memo to faculty: AI is not your friend (opinion)www.insidehighered.com The time to resist is now, Scott Latham writes.
Toward a 21st Century Luddite Pedagogy w/ Charles Loganyoutube.com Excerpted from episode 150 of the Human Restoration Project podcast, available at: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcast#AI #chatbot #luddite--------------...
Professors Ask: Are We Just Grading Robots?www.chronicle.com Some are riding the AI wave. Others feel like they’re drowning.