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How to be a trusted voice online
UNESCO have launched an online course in response to a survey of digital content creators, 73 per cent of whom requested training. According to UNESCO the course aims to empower ... -
Public Domain Data
I've been looking at how we could use Open Source software to develop Generative AI applications for education. Of course one of the issues is data for training the AI. ... -
Social generative AI for education
I am very impressed with a paper, Towards social generative AI for education: theory, practices and ethics, by Mike Sharples. Here is a quick summary but I recommend to read ... -
AI and Education: Agency, Motivation, Literacy and Democracy
Graham Attwell, George Bekiaridis and Angela Karadog have written a new paper, AI and Education: Agency, Motivation, Literacy and Democracy. The paper has been published as a preprint for download ... -
Do we need specialised AI tools for education and instructional design?
In last weeks edition of her newsletter, Philippa Hardman reported on an interesting research project she has undertaken to explore the effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, ... -
What is the purpose of Vocational Education and Training?
Is Artificial Intelligence challenging us to rethink the purpose of Vocational Education and Training? Perhaps that is going too far, but there are signs of questions being asked. For the ... -
AI and Critical Hype Studies
What ever you think about Artificial Intelligence, it cannot be denied that it has generated - and continues to generate - a lot of hype. And in the AI and ... -
Transforming Vocational Education - AI in Theory and Practice
George Bekiaridis and Graham Attwell have made a keynote presentation to the Second Conference on the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and Vocational Education and Training to be held ... -
AI Citizenship in VET
The next AI Pioneers Network webinar will be exploring the themes of democracy and citizenship around AI in vocational education and training. A couple of us have been working on ... -
AI literacy and citizenship
In its broadest sense, literacy is the capacity to communicate with language, numbers and images and the use of those methods to understand and interact with the world. We have ...
