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Stop Policing Punctuation Now: Why AI Detection Needs a Rethink
Like many educators, our social media feeds have been filled with commentary on the impact of AI on …
GenAI: Will It Deepen the Digital Divide in Australian Classrooms?
Edtech advocate and promote generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools as transformative, offering personalised scalable, and interactive learning experience. That …
Are machines now appealing?
A colleague recently shared a polite email from a student appealing their assessment grades. Every rubric criterion was …
Please, please! Let’s avoid the calculator analogy now
I have recently completed my PhD and secured a position as a senior learning adviser at Edith Cowan …
Why we should worry about smart glasses in schools
Smart glasses are the latest shiny object in the edtech world. Sleek, AI-powered, and promoted as the next …
Can we preserve human agency in a world of AI?
That’s a question we can all ask ourselves as we interrogate the UN International Day of Education. This …
Teachers truly know students and how they learn. Does AI?
Time-strapped teachers are turning to advanced AI models like ChatGPT and Perplexity to streamline lesson planning. Simply by …
Does the new AI Framework serve schools or edtech?
On 30 November, 2023, the Australian federal government released its Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools. This is an important step forward. It provides much-needed advice for schools following the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, a technological product capable of creating human-like text and other content. This Framework has undergone several rounds of consultation …
To understand AI today, we need both why and how
We know AI is such a big deal that just this week the President of the United States, Joe Biden, signed an executive order to try to address the risks of a technology he described as “the most consequential technology of our time”. So it is no wonder that the proliferation of both AI tools …
ChatGPT: What do we know now? What must we learn next?
I was honoured to join a TEQSA/CRADLE panel last week, the third in a series on the implications …