I've experimented with AI a lot, especially ChatGPT and Perplexity, for generating course outlines and even creating quite probing assessment tasks.
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Difference engine #2. Photo by Terry Freedman
Artificial Intelligence News November 2023
We need to know how an AI decision-making tool arrives at it's conclusions, which might be hard given that even the designers of these tools don't always know.
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence in the Classroom Revisited -- updated with comments in response to Miguel Guhlin
In my opinion, the potential benefits of artificial intelligence make it a very attractive proposition for use in education. Since republishing this article, I commented on a post by Miguel, who then responded with another blog post citing mine. His article takes mine a few steps further, because he asked ChatGPT to advise him on how to give feedback to some work.
Read MoreBlogging with artificial intelligence Part 4
In this article I bring my AI experiment to its logical conclusion. I’ve asked AI to create personas for my blog, asked it to suggest some article titles, and selected an article and asked it to write an outline of points to be covered. In this article, I asked it to write the article.
Read MoreBlogging with artificial intelligence Part 3
In preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In this phase I used a blog outline generator.
Read MoreBlogging with artificial intelligence Part 2
In preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In the first part I used ChatGPT to develop a few personas, ie representatives of my target readership. In this article I report on using AI to generate ideas for blog posts.
Read MoreBlogging with Artificial Intelligence Part 1
In preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In this first part I report on using ChatGPT to create a few personas.
Read MoreGenerative AI experiments 1
A development that I think is potentially interesting is the embedding of generative AI in the tools we already use.
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence in the Classroom Revisited
In my opinion, the potential benefits of artificial intelligence make it a very attractive proposition for use in education.
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The scream by Terry Freedman
Is your website contributing to AI bots?
I checked if my websites had been scraped, and this what I discovered…
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From Tom Gauld’s Revenge of the Librarians
Is this the future of ChatGPT for authors?
A depressing future for writers?
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My depiction of ChatGPT getting more and more frazzled by the number of assignments I throw at it — Drawing by Terry Freedman
Coming soon... Digital Education ezine, focusing on ChatGPT
Yes, it’s all over the internet, but ChatGPT is still worth looking at. I am compiling a list of useful (I trust) links, and have a few things to add to the plethora of comments already out there.
Read MoreCan ChatGPT write decent course outlines?
I’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT to write course outlines, and for one of the courses I compared the result with the outlines I had already written (and taught to). The results were interesting.
Read MoreAn advertisement for my newsletter -- courtesy of ChatGPT
I asked ChatGPT to write some dialogue advertising my newsletter in the style of a 1930s wise guy gangster.
Here’s what it came up with….
Read MoreHow can CHatGPT be used in education? And can it write decent book reviews?
I asked ChatGPT, and here’s what it said…
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Section of an artcile records spreadsheet, by Terry Freedman
Using ChatGPT as a search engine
Although I haven’t been overly impressed with ChatGPT as a creative force, I have to say that I am impressed with it as an alternative to Google.
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On This Day, by Terry Freedman
On This Day: Why I Dread The Thought Of Benign Algorithms (Updated)
What if intelligent computers decide to look after us, and protect us from ourselves?
Read MoreAI-generated content: does it matter how articles are written? Revisited
As ChatGPT is on everybody’s lips at the moment, I thought I’d revisit an article I wrote several years ago.
Read MoreBook review: Terry Freedman's Dispatches from the Chalkface, reviewed by Connie Chelsea
Dispatches from the Chalkface is an important book because it provides a rare, inside look at the day-to-day reality of teaching in a classroom. Terry Freedman, the author, is a veteran teacher with over 30 years of experience, and in this book he shares his insights and wisdom gained from years of working with students.
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My automated assessment machine
My issues with assessment by AI
I have serious misgivings about the use of AI to assess students’ work.
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