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Beautiful.ai launches a generative tool to help PowerPoint users overcome writer's block and the daunting confrontation of a blank presentation.

Seeking out appropriate technology.

John Warner on what AI can teach us about how we teach writing.

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

Uncanny, creepy and bland: Brian Strang reflects on his chat with the artificial intelligence language model ChatGPT and the threat it does (or doesn’t) pose to writing instruction.

College Unbound - AI Generative Tools Policy Development Plan Updated 1/9/2022 The development of policy around the use of artificial intelligence generative tools in education at College Unbound will include several different actions. They are laid out here in a rough-timeline. For more info...

Teaching: Will ChatGPT Change the Way You Teach? -- from Chronicle.com by Beth McMurtrie Excerpt: Want to get involved in the conversation around AI writing tools? Here are a few resources you might find helpful. Anna Mills has put together several documents: AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry How do we

9 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day, and why you'll never outcompete those who use AI effectively. -- from linkedin.com by Santiago Valdarrama Excerpts: A list for those who write code: Explaining code... Improve existing code... Rewriting code using the correct style... Rewriting code using idiomatic constructs... Simplifying code... Writing test cases...

Edward Tian said more than 20,000 users — many of them teachers — have already tested his app.

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for writing (including ChatGPT) can quickly create coherent, cohesive prose and paragraphs on a seemingly limitless set of topics. The potential for abuse in academic integrity is clear, and our students could be using these tools already. Furthermore, it is likely that this is…

Between ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, AI suddenly feels mainstream.

A guest post from Marc Watkins of the University of Mississippi, the second in a likely series on freaking out about ChatGPT.

Including 10 AI-ready assignment and activity ideas.

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I’m frustrated by the conversation around ChatGPT in higher education. So far, the conversation has been largely about using the tool as a text generator and fears around how students can use it fo…

What’s next for AI -- from technologyreview.com by Melissa Heikkilä and Will Douglas Heaven Get a head start with our four big bets for 2023. Excerpts: But take the conversational skills of ChatGPT and mix them up with image manipulation in a single model and you’d get something a lot more general-purpose and powerful. Imagine

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What might ChatGPT mean for higher education? Last week I posted a list of resources on that question.  Then on Thursday we held a Future Trends Forum session on the topic. More than 250 people joi…

“Augmenting the think-pair-share with ChatGPT could be one of the biggest tech-enabled leaps in pedagogy: * Think * Pair * ChatGPT * Pair * Share”

Many of those of us who work in higher ed have been thinking about ChatGPT since OpenAI dropped free access to it at the end of November. The fancy new chatbot which can generate essays, responses …

Impact of AI on Teaching and Learning Interest Group I’ve set up this document to help us organize our thoughts and share resources as we explore the intersection of AI and education. Feel free to add discussion questions, readings, and other resources. The suggested breakout groups and discussio...

A learning expert shares what he sees on the horizon for 2023 and beyond.

If an algorithm is the death of high school English, maybe that's an okay thing.

I've been in convos recently with teachers about writing bots & I'd urge all teachers to learn how they work so that you and your students can use these tools productively and responsibly.they're not going away.and they are powerful.here's the rephrase menu option for example: https://t.co/AH9SUrzmDx pic.twitter.com/BTAyYzbbow— Laura Gibbs (@OnlineCrsLady) October 13, 2022

Artificial intelligence can crank out passable student essays in seconds. What are we going to do?

What might ChatGPT mean for higher education and society? EDITED TO ADD: This is a living document, and has grown since first posted. Today I’m hosting a Future Trends Forum session on the to…