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AI-Powered Students? Part 3
What do you think the next five years in education will look like in regards to AI? Complete integration or total ban of AI? I struggle with this question. Is the matter entirely out of our hands as...
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App-Based #AI Tutoring - No Teachers
One of the big problems schools have? Finding teachers to serve as tutors after-school and on weekends. One of the questions I always had, "Why do you need so much tutoring for students? Isn't the...
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AI Proof Job - HVAC Technician
Wait, wait, don't laugh at me for this blog entry too much. I mean, it's OK to have a good laugh, but you have to realize, I was just having a bit of fun. Thanks to the Academy for automating their...
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A New Mastodon-Powered Service: #Newsmast
Screenshot of Newsmast.org #GenAI hashtag search resultsA few weeks ago, I received an invitation to check out Newsmast. You can see the invitational email below:We’re getting in touch to introduce a...
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#AI Tool: Wisdolia #yourNETA
How would you decide whether to introduce this tool in your school district or learning organization?WisdoliaThis tool is a "smart" flashcard maker...Access Wisdolia to make flash cardsvia an email...
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Permission Slip: Controlling Data About You
Every day there is a data breach, by a school district, a business, or hospital. It seems no matter where you might store your data, it's sure that someone will bumble it and spill your personally...
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Blogging for Authenticity, Not Publication
What a thrill to see a blog entry appear on the web. Still, this blog isn't about it so much as the power of editing...or the pain. I like blogs because they are "works in progress," unlike books,...
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Screen Time Bad for Young Brains
Yikes, looks like the research is in and its not looking good. Makes me grateful that I couldn’t afford tech for my kids when they were real young but I tried. Those that could buy iPads for their...
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MyNotes: Making Room for Impact
This past month, I bought a book, Making Room for Impact. I immediately was engaged in the first few chapters. My quick take? The first few chapters is where the gold is for edtech directors. Of...
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Making Room for Impact: De-Implementing #EdTech Solutions
Having read this book, Making Room for Impact, earlier last month, I had a fun idea. What if you could apply de-implementation to CTO problems and issues? I decided that it would be a fun way to dig...
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Alaska's Rust Colored Rivers and the Irony of AI
In a pair of blog entries, Tim Stahmer (Assorted Stuff) points to the dark cloud of AI on the horizon, whose silver lining is now being mined by...everyone. In his Conference Check-In, he...
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Anthrop\C and CRITICal Thinking: Analyzing the Guardian's UFO Reporting #AI...
As I've mentioned before, one of the essential skills people are said will be in dire need when AI chatbots rule the world is CRITICAL THINKING. Over the last year, I've spent some serious time...
View ArticleApplying The Orwell Test to Texas Secession with MS CoPilot
Are you familiar with The Orwell test? It came to mind when Nikki Haley was expressing positive thoughts about Texas secession. Of course, she recanted later, but I thought it might be fun to run a...
View ArticleGemini Advanced: The Orwell Test
Part of the fun of relying on AI? Using it to apply Critical Thinking processes that assess claims in news and life. For example, you can read a previous blog entry where Microsoft CoPilot evaluates a...
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Investing in AI
So far, my experience with AI has been mixed. While Claude, Gemini Advanced offered some hope as being my go-to, so far, ChatGPT Plus and Microsoft CoPilot remain the best tools available to me for...
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Comparing #AI Solutions for School with Perplexity.ai
One of the questions I have, even after attending TCEA 2024 Convention and missing the opportunity to visit the booths of each vendor, is, "How do these solutions compare to each other and why, as a...
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Eschatology, Taylor Swift, and Critical Thinking with AI
Disclaimer: Looking for long prompts to get AI to apply critical thinking process and analyze claims you find on the web or people share with you? You're in the right place. Be sure to read all the way...
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Afraid to Speak Up
"The younger you are, the more likely you are to speak up against authority, or to act. The older you get, the more you realize what a waste of time it is. The reason why is people don't easily change...
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Pay for Student Performance
Photo by Tania Melnyczuk on Unsplash Is this too much like merit pay? You get paid for results, as if children were widgets?The article from The 74 Million discusses a pilot program in Texas and...
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Revisiting the Past: Libraries, Early Voting, and Double-Think
I was so glad to cast my early vote today. After breakfast, I drove my wife and I to the Brook Hollow Library, which I have been going to since I was a pre-teen. In fact, I still remember my...
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Ten Sayings of #Epictetus
I asked an AI the following:What are 10 top sayings of Epictetus from simplest to implement to the most difficult? Place a one word descriptor in front of each saying or lesson. Word the saying in...
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Thoughts on Writing, Hattie, and AI
That highlighted portion below is like, "Go ahead and surrender. AI's incursion into schools is already a given victory to the corporate interests." Of course, there was never any doubt. All edtech...
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Yet Another Course on ChatGPT
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn," said Phil Collins. How true that is. I discovered the experience when I sat down to put an online, self-paced course together on a subject...
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Russian Drama and AI
A colleague in a ChatGPT for Educators Facebook group shared the following:I thought, "Why not run this through an AI and see what I get?"You are an expert at drama in Russia and creating symbolic...
View ArticleApplying The Orwell Test to Pay for Student Performance
A short time ago, I wrote about Pay for Student Performance. At the time, I felt I didn't know enough about it but took a stab at trying to understand it. On Sunday, it occurred to me, "Why not run...
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