Tag: generative ai
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Invisible Ink – A Generative AI Ghostwriter
I went down a rabbit hole of Gen AI and engineered an AI ghostwriter! A human ghostwriter would try to understand and mimic the voice and style of your writing. Your AI ghostwriter Invisible Ink does the same thing!
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Gen AI is a TI-30, and the Humanities are having their “slide rule moment.”
(I haven’t lost my mind. Allow me to explain.) Math and math-adjacent fields faced a crisis in the 1970s when digital calculators arrived in students’ hands. These were just basic versions, nothing close to scientific or graphing calculators (just go look up the TI-30!), but they were a quantum leap ahead of the slide rule…
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AI is changing the world. We can’t allow it to change our humanity.
✅ Consider politics: deepfakes are already influencing elections. 👩🎓 Consider education: I recently showed a team of teachers how to generate an entire term paper with Gen AI. (Chicago-style citations and all.) 🎭 Consider industries: OpenAI‘s Sora videos, or Midjourney‘s images, or Anthropic‘s Claude AI writing. Then consider Gen AI has been in the public…
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Given AI, do we know whether our children are learning? 👩🎓
That question was at the heart of the professional development session I ran last week for Horace Mann School‘s History Department. I think the teachers left a little less certain about the answer. (Which was one of my goals. Sorrynotsorry.) I showed them how, with just a few minutes of prompting, Generative AI can create…
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AI is the biggest EdTech disruption since the chalkboard. 🦾🎓
Yet 60% of teachers still don’t use it. 🤔Spoiler alert: it’s not their fault. Plenty of past EdTechs have claimed they will revolutionize teaching. Most have failed. Remember filmstrips? Interactive whiteboards? The list goes on and on. The difference with AI, as I’ve argued in past posts, is that no other EdTech can replace thinking.…
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Uh oh. Do you actually know what your learners don’t know? 🤔
Teaching is way more than telling. A great teacher unearths their learners’ misconceptions and misunderstandings, and then targets them to fill gaps and build higher quality knowledge. In other words, you don’t just teach what’s next; you teach what’s NEEDED. One of the more challenging elements of teaching is figuring out what our learners need…
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You just learned ChatGPT and now it’s gone?! What will you have to learn next?! 😓
No, ChatGPT isn’t dead yet. But this weekend was chaos weekend at OpenAI, the company that created it. (CEO Altman was out! Then maybe he wasn’t! Then he was hired by Microsoft! And then most of OpenAI’s employees were ready to follow him! Wheeee!!!!!) OpenAI may survive, but the sharks are circling. Now’s a perfect…
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I built an artificially intelligent tutor! 🤖🎓 How’d I do?
My edu-geekery dial went to 11 last week when OpenAI announced custom GPTs. And here I’ve been talking about how you can use ChatGPT for learning! 🤓 I’ve been building an AI tutor ever since. Turns out it isn’t easy. Here are a sampling of the things I wanted it to do:🤔 Start by evaluating the…
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How do we humanize non-human interactions?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the below since I posted it. The risk of trusting AI to get pseudo-human interaction right, the difficulty of knowing just how to balance AI’s advantages with the necessity of a human touch, the cognitive reward of human interaction that’s missing from AI. I released a podcast episode with…
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ChatGPT made my daughter cry, and it was my fault
She’d just told me she’d started learning about the human nervous system for a class by Googling articles. I asked her a few questions about the topic, and then thought: Aha! Perfect opportunity to employ AI for learning! I asked whether she’d like to build a prompt in ChatGPT that would help her learn what…
