week 4

As many of you probably already know, Gemini is Google's powerful AI chatbot that can serve as a helpful assistant for educators . You simpl...

A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. For this episode, I talk through the video with that leader, Paul LeBlanc, and get some reaction to the model from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali, a professor of practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo.

Google is upgrading Audio Overviews in NotebookLM with three formats, like Debate, that provide an alternative to the podcast style.

Discover the best ChatGPT prompts for professors to streamline teaching—refine your syllabus, create quizzes, tailor assignments, draft recommendations, conduct lit reviews, and more.

Should we ban them?

a system you can use for checking in with your students

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We really need a systemic approach for the introduction of AI interactive spaces grounded in AI literacy frameworks and standards!

Building Classroom Community and Communicating Care To help students build relationships with a subset of classmates, I could… Put students in small groups on the first day of class, giving the group a social ice-breaker and/or a collective task for piquing their interest in the course topic. B...

I'm baaack after 7 days of holiday! 👋 Here's how I catch up on AI in just 2 hours (including a link to my exact prompt) I've just returned from 7 days in a sleepy country cottage in Norfolk with my family and the dog.  Lovely long walks on beaches and in forests Soothing tired screen-frazzled eyes with books Stuffing my face with fresh farm shop food Random day-drinking over giggly board games ...absolutely lush. It's also so nice to be reminded that I do have a personality and stuff to talk about still outside of work. This Founder life can be all-consuming, and it's so easy to forget yourself, isn't it? Anyway, getting back up to speed always feels like I'm standing on a bridge, about to jump onto a bullet train to fight baddies or something. But I've now got the AI catch-up bit down to a fine art. 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝟭: 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳 I'll spend the first hour perusing the top AI news creators* across the various channels: • Matt Wolfe – YouTube • The AI Advantage – YouTube • Allie K Miller – LinkedIn • Ruben Hassid – LinkedIn • Rowan Cheung – X & Newsletter (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯) • Ethan Mollick – X & Substack (𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘜𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨) • Andrew Ng – LinkedIn • Marketing AI Institute – Spotify • Ben Tossell – Newsletter (𝘉𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘉𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴) 💡 Top tip: If there's lots going on I'll pop a list of URLs into a NotebookLM knowledge hub and then ask for all of the key points. 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝟮: 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 All the AI chatbots now have this, but so few people seem to know it's there.  To find it: ChatGPT - Click the plus sign - Deep Research Claude - Research button under the chat box Gemini  - Toggle button next to plus sign - Deep Research Copilot - Agents - Built by Microsoft - Researcher Then I'll prompt to gather all the news while I go off and have a coffee. My prompt is too long for this post so I've put it into a G doc for you: https://lnkd.in/eK75vgX6 (Make sure you add the date into the bit I've highlighted yellow - LLMs don't tend to know the date.) It isn't instant - it'll take about 10 minutes. Then click into each link and have a better read. 💡 Top tip: Amend the prompt to focus on your specific industry or function, add trusted sources, etc.  Make it yours! And that's it - 2 hours and you'll find yourself up to date on what's happening. You'll notice a woeful lack of female AI news creators in there, apart from Allie.  Can I please get some recommendations for females who are quick off the mark with AI updates? PS If I started to report on the AI news on YouTube, would that be something you'd watch? Maybe a rundown of what's happened that week? | 113 comments on LinkedIn

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A curated collection of assignments bringing a critical lens to Artificial Intelligence (AI), built collaboratively with educators. We give teachers the tools to examine AI’s dangers, benefits, and inevitable impact in the classroom.

Key findings from Inside Higher Ed’s student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn’t diminished the value of college in their view, but it could affect their critical thinking skills.

Try new learning modes in ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini

Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.