AI

The lure of AI "time-saving" tools for teachers

Grief-laden vitriol directed at AI fails to help us understand paths to better futures that are neither utopian nor dystopian, but open to radically weird possibilities.

My sincere thanks to those who helped support the creation of The Beyond ChatGPT series by subscribing to my newsletter. Your continued support has helped me carve out the time to research AI’s impact on skill development this summer. I’m committed to keeping the content of this series open to all. Moving forward, I’ll be revisiting each one of these past essays to explore ways educators can ethically use AI with students to help them learn or ways they can include intentional friction in the learning process to counter AI’s marketing promise of a frictionless learning experience.

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Last week, Federico and I asked Robb Knight to do what he could to block web crawlers deployed by artificial intelligence companies from scraping MacStories. Robb had already updated his own site’s robots.txt file months ago, so that’s the first thing he did for MacStories. However, robots.txt only works if a company’s web crawler is

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AI Text Detectors (aka AI Plagiarism Detectors & AI Content Detectors) Designed by Torrey Trust, Ph.D. College of Education University of Massachusetts Amherst @torreytrust | torrey@umass.edu This work is licensed under CC BY NC 4.0, meaning that you can freely use, remix, and share it as long as...

Over the past several days, we’ve made some changes at MacStories to address the ingestion of our work by web crawlers operated by artificial intelligence companies. We’ve learned a lot, so we thought we’d share what we’ve done in case anyone else would like to do something similar. If you read MacStories regularly, or listen

Turning stories into “Choose your own adventures” This page is to support you with attempting to implement “Interactive Fiction” in an English classroom. Further discussion …

A practical guide on how to 10X your analysis process using free AI tools, based on real use cases

AI and the death of student writing; protesters barricade building at CSU-Los Angeles; the value of learning to do things you’re bad at; and more.

Why do large language models behave the way that they do? New research provides some clues.

How to make a case for AI experimentation & testing in learning & development

Try a new approach to making slides and sites

2 days, 15+ discussions, lots of great ideas and insights

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

Why AI Detection Alone Will Fail Students

The series is called Forbidden Toys by Rosemberg, an artist living in Spain.

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&#…

As generative AI continues to revolutionize teaching and learning, it is imperative for educators to understand how this technology impacts assessment practi...

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, ...

Collecting up my recent writings on a complex topic.

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…