"Time Saved" is the Wrong Measurement for Teacher Workload and AI
Recent reports from The Walton Foundation and Microsoft claim teachers using AI can save up to "six weeks" of time over a school year, or between 6-9.5 hours per week. But what does "time saved" actually mean in education? And should we be basing conversations about technology on this obscure, often misleading metric?
5 new ways we’re helping students and young people learn and grow using AI
These efforts, including new responsible AI curriculum and a $1 million grant to MIT RAISE, all aim to help students and educators use AI safely and effectively.
Google’s NotebookLM has been out for a while, but some recent improvements have made it a much more interesting and potentially useful tool. In this post, I’ll be running through how th…
Practical AI Strategies Free 4-Week Course: Feedback and FAQ
Just over a month ago I launched a free 4-week email course on Practical AI Strategies for educators. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with over 700 participants completing the first …
Just 1 hour into the course, you will be better at using ChatGPT than 99.9% of the population. The ChatGPT for Work Interactive Course is absolutely FREE.
One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images
Deceptive pictures, videos and audio are proliferating as a result of the rise and misuse of generative artificial intelligence tools. With AI deepfakes cropping up almost every day, depicting everyone from Taylor Swift to Donald Trump, it's getting harder to tell what's real from what's not. Video and image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney and OpenAI’s Sora make it easy for people without any technical skills to create deepfakes — just type a request and the system spits it out.