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What We Risk By Automating Tasks We Loathe
I don't think I've ever met someone who loves PowerPoint. Most students find it a rote mechanism to space out to during lectures. Some slide deck…
Mar 24
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The Empathy Illusion: How AI Agents Could Manipulate Students
Agency and AI have become a focal point in education around the current batch of generative tools, but the focus on personal use and autonomy (e.g., to…
Mar 17
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The Enduring Role of Writing in an AI Era
Anthropic’s Claude 3 is here, and with it comes much-hyped rhetoric of true artificial intelligence, which in turn leads to the predictable pattern of…
Mar 10
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Education Is On The Frontlines Of The AI Culture Wars
Several universities tried AI detection and stopped, and still, many more will cling to the unreliable and ultimately failing detection cat-and-mouse…
Mar 3
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February 2024
Your Students Are Already Using AI You've Never Heard Of
Far too many people view the free version of ChatGPT as a measure of what generative AI is capable of, and it is providing many in education with a…
Feb 23
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The Exhausting Pace of AI: Google's Ultra Leap
The acceleration of AI deployments has gotten so absurdly out of hand that a draft post I started a week ago about a new development is now out of date…
Feb 15
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The AI Influencers Selling Students Learning Shortcuts
It is worthwhile spending some time on social media to see the relentless bombardment faced by students from influencers peddling AI tools that straddle…
Feb 9
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AI's Novelty Problem
In our era of AI acceleration, it's crucial to pause and consider these innovations' deeper implications on creativity. Ethan Mollick's assertion that…
Feb 4
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January 2024
Synthetic Selves: the Ethics of Real Time AI Avatars
Would you consent to upload your name, image, and likeliness to a generative AI system and allow it to do your job? We’ve invested so much time, energy…
Jan 26
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The Chaos of Unguided AI Adoption
We’re entering into a period of acceleration with generative AI in education. A university in Michigan is putting two chatbot students in classes where…
Jan 21
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Our Winter AI Institute for Teachers
For the second time I had the pleasure of designing an AI Institute for Teachers at the University of Mississippi. You can read more about the first AI…
Jan 14
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Google's Creative AI Experiments Provide Vivid Learning Experiences
In mid December, Google Labs revealed some really cool experiments with generative AI and other types of machine learning. What really grabbed my…
Jan 2
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