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While it is unusual for faculty to update a course syllabus mid-semester, the unprecedented impacts of ChatGPT and AI technology have many looking for ways to provide more guidance for their students. In this post, I’d like to share different …

It's easy to be fooled by AI-generated images and other content. We talk about how to identify them, how media literacy can help, plus how to use these tools responsibly.

As regular readers know, I’ve been writing a lot about Artificial Intelligence – both here and at my Education Week column. You’ll find many AI-related “Best” l…

We’re not going to be able to resist GenAI, if we don’t understand it robot teacher No one knows how quickly Microsoft, Google, and Amazon will move from beta testing generative AI with…

Also prompts! And things to watch out for!

Teachers can use AI tools to help generate ideas and learning materials to address their students’ diverse needs.

I’ve been asked, in various roles1, to give my opinion on the challenges posed by Large Language Models (LLMs)2, also known as “stochastic parrots” (Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major,…

At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSRO…

The company shared in a recent post that it’s noticed a “higher incidence of false positives” when less than 20% of AI writing is detected in a document.

Resources curated by Kathryn Conrad and Sean Kamperman

AI Text Generators Sources to Stimulate Discussion Among Teachers https://bit.ly/AITextEdu Compiled by Anna Mills for the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse as part of a larger resource collection: AI and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry. Licensed CC BY NC 4.0. Ple...

Some initial observations + a ChatGPT prompt to get you started

Maria Andersen shares about designing courses in an age of artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 469 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Don’t put faith in detectors that are “unreliable and easily gamed,” says scholar.

"All I did was go to a website that is designed to facilitate cheating and set up a kind of camera to see who visited it." That's Garret Merriam, associate professor of philosophy at Sacramento State University, who recently caught 40 of the 96 students in his online Introduction to Ethics course cheating on a

If you insist on using tools to detect AI-generated text in student work at least do so in an open and transparent way.

As I’ve written before (A REALLY BAD THING ABOUT AI IS THAT IT FORCES US TEACHERS TO SPEND A TON OF TIME RETHINKING OUR LESSONS. I GUESS THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING ABOUT IT, TOO), thou…

In a matter of months, Microsoft and Google will upgrade their Office and G suite of tools with generative AI, greeting users with the choice to generate content or write organically—each time a us…

We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true anymore.

We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true anymore.

Teachers of ELA classes will need to provide an Acceptable Use Policy for AI in the ELA Classroom. When school starts back up this is going to be essential for every ELA teacher to provide.

As a doctoral student at the University of California at Los Angeles, I was among those who got a recent campus-wide email with an urgent directive: ...

Too many of us are making snap judgments about AI chat bots based on reading one or two reviews or by taking only five minutes to test out the current version.

The Impossible Statue was designed with generative A.I. and is currently on display in Stockholm’s Science and Technology Museum.

I’ve begun posting my mid-year “Best” lists, and this is a new one – the first time I’ve shared a “Best” list specifically on AI tools. As you proba…