Audrey Watters, Hack Education Weekly News
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OL Daily, Stephen Downes
- GEM Report, World Education Blog, Oct 04, 2024 This feels like such an odd article. The title reads at once like a tautology and in a difference sense granting exclusive agency to teachers. It references the 2023 GEM Report but nowhere in the 547 page document do we find the quote from Chinese Vice Minister […]
- David Dal Busco, Oct 04, 2024 At some point in the near future many content editing windows across the web may stop functioning. These are the windows you use to type in text and which have formatting buttons at the top so you can make text bold, italic, or whatever. Traditionally, they have relied on […]
- Brad Smallwood, Graham Mudd, The Mozilla Blog, Oct 04, 2024 This article provides an overview on Mozilla's Anonym advertising technology (Mozilla acquired Anonym a few months ago). Basically, in involves creating a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) in the browser that exports encrypted and anonymized data to the ad platform, which aggregates it and forwards it […]
- Leo Hanna, The PIE News, Oct 04, 2024 This article, I hope, makes it clear why I am watching Mozilla's ad technology initiative quite closely. It takes only a small leap to imagine similar technology being used by educational institutions. After all, data is the lifeblood of any learning analytics system. And if you can […]
- Nature, Oct 04, 2024 The whole world is gushing over work released this week in Nature of the complete fruit fly connectome (that is, the complete set of neurons and connections in the fruit fly brain). There's a set of nione papers overall along with some websites, data, and applications. The FlyWire project built a […]
Michael Feldstein, E-Literate
- e-Literate is excited to unveil the AI Learning Design Assistant (ALDA) Design/Build Workshop series, a pioneering initiative that brings together a diverse group of colleges and universities to collaboratively tackle the pressing challenges of learning design. This initiative extends beyond standard prompt engineering techniques, inviting participants to participate in co-designing a functioning AI application that […]
- In this post, I propose a programmatic, sector-wide approach to the challenge of building a solid foundation for AI tutors, balancing needs for speed, scalability, and safety. The post Toward a Sector-Wide AI Tutor R&D Program appeared first on e-Literate.
- I was delighted to speak with Cristi Ford, D2L’s VP of Academic Affairs, about durable skills and AI in higher education. You can find the episode in all the usual places: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-teaching-skills-can-complement-the-use-of-ai/id1663544722?i=1000649960964 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1iYsMHqAKXzts9i4skDHPE YouTube (audio only): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6bbJHSa-A Show Notes: https://www.d2l.com/podcasts/teach-and-learn/how-teaching-skills-can-complement-the-use-of-ai-in-education-with-michael-feldstein/ Cristi is a delightful, thoughtful educator and a pleasure to talk with […]
- Durable skills are not only a real thing but a civilizational shift. AI is not the cause. It's an accelerant and a wake-up call. Particularly when working with AI, I argue that teaching skills are durable skills. The post Teaching Skills are Durable Skills with AI appeared first on e-Literate.
- No matter how good a technology is, it still has to have the right capabilities to solve your problem. If you need a hammer to hang a picture and I hand you sledgehammer, you'll find a rock to use instead. AI is no different. The post AI in EdTech: How it Breaks in Subtle Ways […]
EdSurge | Education Technology News and Resources
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- “One of the greatest challenges I face as an educator is that the very qualities that drive me to succeed — my work ethic, my ambition, my desire to …
- AI INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER?: Over the past few months, a group of educators has been designing and testing a system that uses ChatGPT to serve as an …
- The rise of AI promises new solutions to long-standing challenges. It also introduces some challenges of its own. In addition to concerns over privacy, …
Phil on EdTech
- 2U's CEO transition, OPM and LMS M&A, Fall FAFSA fallout, and an AI podcast of Morgan's post
- There's an emerging space between commercial chatbots using public data and complex AI model integrations
- Moving beyond the hype
- All about vendors
- The GAO reports detail numerous mistakes in the FAFSA Fiasco but misses out on recommendations
