…as pencils become increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, to equip learners, educators, and leaders with the necessary skills and knowledge to navigate this revolutionary technology responsibly, in safe, equitable and meaningful ways. Thus, pencil literacy has emerged as a critical skill set for everyone to safely and effectively use these groundbreaking innovations. – Civics of Technology
7 links for the week ahead
- Matthias Bastian (2024-07-25). OpenAI Launches Google Search Competitor SearchGPT.
- Helen Beetham (2024-08-07). What Price Your ‘AI-ready’ Graduates?.
- Rodney Brooks (2024-07-29). Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence.
- Mark Carrigan (2024-07-30). Five Propositions About Generative AI and the Future of Academic Writing.
- Donald Clark (2024-07-26). Choosing a GenAI Model? Tricky… Quick Guide….
- Adam Mastroianni (2022-07-12). You’ll Forget Most of What You Learn. What Should You Do About That?.
- Amelia Wattenberger. (n.d). Why Chatbots Are Not the Future.
An entangled pedagogy
Fawns, T. (2022). An Entangled Pedagogy: Looking Beyond the Pedagogy—Technology Dichotomy. Postdigital Science and Education.
‘Pedagogy first’ has become a mantra for educators, supported by the metaphor of the ‘pedagogical horse’ driving the ‘technological cart’. Yet putting technology first or last separates it from pedagogy, making us susceptible to technological or pedagogical determinism (i.e. where technology is seen either as the driving force of change or as a set of neutral tools). In this paper, I present a model of entangled pedagogy that encapsulates the mutual shaping of technology, teaching methods, purposes, values and context…
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Personal update
- Recorded a 6th episode for our AI in Healthcare podcast (I really need to start editing and publishing these).
- Made progress on my application for promotion.
- Met with FAIMER webinar team to finalise planning for my AI in society presentation on Mon.
- Started cycling into the office again.
- Started playing social football in the village again.
- Published an In Beta newsletter on memory and retrieval.
- Invited to present a workshop on AI in physiotherapy in Tartu, Estonia.
- Invited to be a keynote speaker at a physiotherapy conference in Goa, India.