Category: AI
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Generative Conversations: An Exploration of AI in Physiotherapy
The Generative Conversations Project grew out of the planning phase for a workshop at the 2024 IFOMPT conference. Physiotherapy professionals from around the world were asked: How should we respond to AI? The responses informed a discussion document to help the profession start shaping how it’s used. AI has a role to play in enhancing…
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Reimagining HPE with AI – Council of Deans of Health
When students use AI to bypass meaningful learning, they show that our assignments were already completable without real engagement. Using AI to optimise for grades over understanding makes this strategic behaviour more visible. The real issue isn’t the technology—it’s the misaligned incentives that reward compliance over authentic learning.
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Avoiding AI platform dependency by controlling your context
Google’s free Gemini Pro access seems valuable, but using these platforms extensively creates AI platform dependency through contextual capture. Your unique thinking patterns, intellectual connections, and research approaches become integrated into their ecosystem. After the 15-month trial period ends, you’re cognitively locked in, trading intellectual independence for convenience, all while the platforms reshape how you…
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[Note] – A Cheat Sheet for Why Using ChatGPT Is Not Bad for the Environment
in AIUsing ChatGPT does not significantly harm the environment. Its energy consumption is very low compared to other daily activities. Worrying about using ChatGPT distracts from addressing major climate issues. Stopping ChatGPT wouldn’t noticeably reduce overall emissions. We should focus on bigger changes, like reducing car use and promoting green energy.
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[Note] – Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
in AIUsing ChatGPT is not as harmful to the environment as some believe. While it may use more energy than a Google search, the overall impact is small compared to other online activities. Claims about ChatGPT’s water usage are often misleading, as most water consumption relates to energy production rather than direct use by the service.…
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AI is a means of transforming information
AI-powered information transformation extends beyond simple summarisation. When we view recorded lectures as raw material, students can engage with content through multiple transformations: translation, simplification, connection, personalisation, expansion, and critique. This approach shifts learning from passive consumption to active engagement, preparing students for real-world information adaptation.
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AI in physiotherapy education – Canadian Physiotherapy Association
This workshop introduces clinical instructors to state-of-the-art generative AI applications in physiotherapy education, with a focus on practical implementation strategies for educational content development. Through interactive demonstrations and guided exercises, participants will explore how AI tools can enhance their teaching practice while maintaining high educational and clinical standards. The workshop addresses three key areas: content…
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Generative AI in Healthcare
This presentation explores the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI in healthcare, balancing optimistic forecasts with practical considerations. Generative AI has quickly evolved beyond text prediction to encompass multimodal capabilities, with previously impossible tasks now becoming routine. The presentation emphasises that effective implementation depends on structured prompting that establishes clear contextual frameworks.
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Condemning AI in education while requiring Turnitin
This post briefly explores the contradiction in higher education’s approach to student data: condemning AI companies as “predatory” while mandating student submission to Turnitin’s commercial database. Unlike AI services offering opt-out options, plagiarism detection systems provide no choice. Are we applying consistent principles to educational technology, or simply protecting the status quo?
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Health Professions Education with AI – SUPSI
In this workshop presentation, I argue that using AI to support learning represents an opportunity to explore an alternative educational paradigm where we reimagine what’s possible, rather than doing the same thing, only better.
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Efficiency in teaching is important, but learning is importanter
When we focus solely on how AI can automate teaching tasks, we miss its transformative potential for learning. The question isn’t whether AI can grade papers faster, but whether it might help learners navigate complexity, connect diverse perspectives, and construct meaning in ways previously unimaginable in traditional educational environments.
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Humans all the way down: The inherent subjectivity of AI
AI development isn’t objective—it’s human choices all the way down. From data collection to deployment, subjective decisions shape these systems. The mathematical veneer obscures the human fingerprints, but this subjectivity isn’t a flaw—it’s what makes AI a remarkable reflection of our collective intelligence, amplified through technical innovation.
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Preprint – Using AI to enhance scientific discourse
in AIGenerative AI could transform scientific publishing from a metrics-driven system to vibrant learning communities. Instead of accelerating article production, AI should enhance scholarly dialogue, connecting researchers, facilitating more meaningful peer review, and helping journals prioritise real-world impact over traditional publication metrics. This paper reimagines scientific discourse as a more collaborative, dynamic process, supported by AI,…
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The role of prompt design in AI-enhanced feedback literacy
Research on AI-enabled feedback rarely documents the specific prompts used, focusing instead on models and outcomes. This matters because prompt design reflects and develops feedback literacy. Well-crafted prompts that incorporate assessment criteria and theoretical frameworks represent a pedagogical opportunity. By teaching students to create sophisticated prompts, we’re cultivating the same feedback literacy skills that effective…
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People are not content generators
There are different ways of framing our engagement with AI, and the focus on content generation misses an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of generative AI as a paradigm-changing technology.
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This seems like an easy problem to solve
in AII wish that image-generating AI would do a quick check to make sure that what they’ve created is aligned with what was requested. It must be possible, given the capabilities of models to ‘see’ what’s in an image. I wonder if it’s just too expensive.
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AI and the Business of Practice – IPPTA
AI has the potential to change how physiotherapy practice owners approach business growth, especially for those with limited business experience. Acting as a virtual consultant, AI tools can help analyse market opportunities, develop client personas, and create strategic roadmaps—enabling more sophisticated business planning that was once limited to larger organisations.