Everything works somewhere. Nothing works everywhere. – Dylan Williams
7 links for the week ahead
- Mark Carrigan (2024-08-06). A Philosophical Sketch of Two Models of Generative AI: Conversational Agents and Copilots.
- Stephen Downes (2024-08-23). My Top 10 Tools List for 2024.
- Sascha Fast (2024-08-27). How to Process a Practical Book Quickly.
- Austin Kleon (13-06-2023). Do you have a nemesis?
- Nathan Labenz (2024-08-21). AI Automation: Making AI Work for You – Now With GPT-4o Fine-Tuning!.
- Gary Marcus (2024-07-28). AlphaProof, AlphaGeometry, ChatGPT, and Why the Future of AI Is Neurosymbolic.
- Bertalan Mesko (2023-08-31). Will It Be a Luxury to Meet Physicians?.
Chatbots supporting self-regulated learning
Guan, R., Raković, M., Chen, G., & Gašević, D. (2024). How educational chatbots support self-regulated learning? A systematic review of the literature. Education and Information Technologies.
Engagement in self-regulated learning (SRL) may improve academic achievements and support development of lifelong learning skills… However, to our knowledge, researchers have yet to learn whether and how educational chatbots developed so far have (1) promoted learning processes pertaining to SRL and (2) improved student learning performance in different tasks… We found that educational chatbots so far have mainly supported learners to identify learning resources, enact appropriate learning strategies, and metacognitively monitor their studying… Most of the chatbots in the reviewed corpus of studies appeared to promote productive SRL processes and boost learning performance of students across different domains, confirming the potential of this technology to support SRL.
Foggy mountain
https://om.co/2024/07/24/climbing-a-mountain-on-a-foggy-morning/

I love Om Malik’s blog, for his thoughtful treatment of entrepreneurship and technology. But he’s also a photographer and this picture of his caught my eye.
Personal update
- It’s been a busy week for us, with my first week back in the office for a while, my daughters starting school (one who has moved to high school), and my uncle visiting us from Cape Town.
- Published two blog posts that include prompts that I think might be useful for health professions educators:
- Published a Head space post on fostering a culture of guilt-free time off.
- Published an In Beta post on research communities.
- Cycled into work twice.
- Recorded two videos for the Physiopedia AI MOOC I’m working on for October.
- Helped finalise the AI workshop I’m co-facilitating at the ENPHE conference in Warsaw next week.
- Met with several vendors regarding virtual reality in health professions simulation.
- Facilitated an all-day workshop on emerging technology in health and social care for students on our MSc Speech and Language programme.
- Continued working on my promotion application.
- Started planning for a workshop on generative AI in physiotherapy that I’ll be facilitating in Tartu (Estonia) in November.