Daniel Christian: My slides for the Educational Technology Organization of Michigan’s Spring 2024 Retreat

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Adapting Your Course to AI: Short Course Content
New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box'
Why do large language models behave the way that they do? New research provides some clues.
AI Policy 101: a Beginners' Framework
How to make a case for AI experimentation & testing in learning & development
🏆 Why Gamma is great for presentations
Try a new approach to making slides and sites
Leonfurze rethinking assessment
Doing Faculty Consultations
2 days, 15+ discussions, lots of great ideas and insights
Don't Expect Juniors to Teach Senior Professionals to Use Generative AI: Emerging Technology Risks and Novice AI Risk Mitigation Tactics
The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that unde
The Price of Automating Ethics
Why AI Detection Alone Will Fail Students
These AI Retro Kid's Games Are So Bad They're Good | Moss and Fog
The series is called Forbidden Toys by Rosemberg, an artist living in Spain.
Don’t use GenAI to grade student work
As a former secondary English teacher, senior examination assessor, and lecturer for initial teacher education, I understand the allure of using Generative AI (GenAI) for grading student work. We&#…
Redefining Assessment in the Age of AI
As generative AI continues to revolutionize teaching and learning, it is imperative for educators to understand how this technology impacts assessment practi...
Latest AI Announcements Mean Another Big Adjustment for Educators - EdSurge News
Educators may need to spend some of the summer catching up with the latest AI tools that have been announced by big tech companies in recent weeks, ...
How to think about teaching writing in a GenAI world
Collecting up my recent writings on a complex topic.
Ethan Mollick on LinkedIn: ChatGPT - Innovator
Everyone now has free access to GPT-4o & GPTs. I thought I'd share some GPTs of ours that people have found valuable as starting points: 1) Innovator…
How to Use ChatGPT With Siri on Your iPhone
There are two ways you can use Siri and ChatGPT together.
OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT
Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models.
The Age of the Drone Police Is Here
A WIRED investigation, based on more than 22 million flight coordinates, reveals the complicated truth about the first full-blown police drone program in the US—and why your city could be next.
Google's AI Overview Search Results Copied My Original Work
Google’s AI feature bumped my article down on the results page, but the new AI Overview at the top still referenced it. What gives?
AI Policy 101: a Beginners' Framework
How to make a case for AI experimentation & testing in learning & development
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
What’s the future of AI?
AI is here to stay. To outcompete in the future, organizations and individuals alike need to get familiar fast. This series of emMcKinsey Explainers/em dives deep into the seven technologies that are already shaping the years to come.
Is your school behind on AI? If so, there are practical steps you can take for the next 12 months
Special thanks to everyone who has supported this blog with a paid subscription, as it has allowed me to spend more time focusing on it. __ The last week saw continued advances in AI. Prominent universities, including Oxford, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas at Austin, Arizona State University, and Columbia University, joined a
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
LibreCommons
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📓 Make an AI notebook
Wonder Tools ✍️ Introducing Google’s NotebookLM
2024-05-20 Educators WG: AI Powered Assessment - Open edX Community - Open edX Community Wiki
Part 1: Ignoring our ignorance
Critical Thinking is not Enough Well before the arrival of generative AI, many voices have been advocating that the development of critical thinking should be a chief function of education. Most ag…
How Humans Do (and Don't) Learn
One of the biggest ever reviews of human behaviour change has been published, with some eye-opening implications for how we design & deliver learning experiences
Voltaire on Working the Gardens of Our Classrooms
Are you a Pangloss, Martin, or Candide?