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Locally developed technology best serves communities
I’m impressed by the work being carried out by the DAIR Institute. DAIR stands for Distributed AI Research Institute. They say “We are an interdisciplinary and globally distributed AI research ... -
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 ... -
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 are Learning Tools?
There's an interesting post from Philippa Hardman in her newsletter today. Entitled Are ChatGPT, Claude & NotebookLM *Really* Disrupting Education? her research asks how much and how well do popular ... -
TeacherMatic
The AI pioneers project which is researching an developing approaches to the use of AI in vocational and adult education in Europe is presently working on a Toolkit including analysis ... -
what works for you?
Part of my work on the Erasmus+ AI Pioneers project is that I am the internal evaluator. And I have to produce an annual evaluation report. The emphasis on project ... -
Anthropomorphism of AI in Learning Environments: Risks of Humanizing the Machine
There is a flood of reports and publications around AI in education, driven, I guess, by the increasing use of Generative AI in education. One that caught my eye today ... -
Is AI a wedge for privatisation and commodification in education?
Last week Open AI released their GPTs store. According to OpenAI more than 3 million custom GPTs are created and claim analysis shows that the the GPT Store currently contains ... -
AI: How do we make explainability open to practitioners and practice?
Over the last six or so weeks I have been doing a series of interviews about AI in education for the AI Pioneers project. One issue was who to ask. ... -
Top tools for Learning
Jane Hart from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has published the seventeenth in her annual survey of the Top 100 Tools for Learning. There were 2,022 votes in ...
