Category: Education
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AI is not neutral. Neither is education.
While critics debate AI and education neutrality, they’re missing the point: nothing humans create is value-neutral, including education.
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Generative AI in Health Professions Education – FAIMER Connect Continued Learning
The second session of the FAIMER Connect Continued Learning series explored the impact and potential of generative AI in the fields of health professions practice, education, and research.
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DfE to stop grading English schools based on proportion of Russell Group students
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/26/dfe-to-stop-grading-english-schools-based-on-proportion-of-russell-group-students
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Last day for discounted access to Head space course
This 3-hour course focuses on practical ways to incorporate generative AI into your daily academic routines, from reading and writing to creating and learning. You’ll explore how to use AI as a coach, a brainstorming partner, and a project assistant. The goal here is not only to teach you how to use AI, but to…
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Weekly digest 44
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Physiopedia AI Masterclass courses are trending
All 4 AI courses on Physiopedia are currently trending. You can still sign up for free until 15 Nov 2024.
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Reimagining higher education in the face of advanced genAI: An opinionated vision
This post explores the potential impacts of advanced generative AI on higher education. It presents a radical vision where AI transforms learning processes, redefines institutions, and reshapes the nature of knowledge itself. The analysis considers how universities might evolve to remain relevant in a world where AI becomes the primary source of information and education.
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The remembering self and the experiencing self
How might significant aspects of health professions education change, if we discover that patients’ memories of their pain can’t be trusted?
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More details on HPE-Bot
HPE-Bot is a fantastic project being driven by someone deeply committed to health professions and medical education. If you think that generative AI is over-hyped, or that it doesn’t really have a place in HPE, consider playing around with this tool. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
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Context matters: Misleading Headlines and Generative AI
Misleading headlines about generative AI can distort public perception. While you could reasonably claim that the capabilities of AI are overestimated in some areas, it’s actually underestimated in others (like education). This post critiques an article’s clickbait title, emphasising the importance of reading beyond headlines, especially if you’re going to share further. It argues for…
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Physiopedia AI course for healthcare professionals is now live
The Physiopedia AI Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals Programme is a comprehensive course exploring AI’s impact on healthcare education, research, and clinical practice. This free online programme introduces frontier AI models, discusses AI’s potential in enhancing learning and research, and examines its role in diagnosis and clinical performance. Learn to integrate AI into your professional life…
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One week until the Physiopedia MOOC on AI in Physiotherapy
There’s one week left before the start of the Physiopedia MOOC on AI in Physiotherapy. You may want to register if you think this is something that might affect your practice in the future.
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New Head space course: AI for academics
Announcing an upcoming Head space introductory course on generative AI for academics.
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Weekly digest 37
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Developing AI literacy in professional education
Developing AI literacy in students shouldn’t rely on mandatory training. Instead, I suggest using AI to create personalised learning programmes for students that help them address real-world problems that are important to them. I give an example of preparing for clinical placement using generative AI. By having students interact with AI to build unique plans…
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Education is important but…
Just came across this photo I took when visiting Monash University in 2018. The staff in the physio department had a foosball table set up and would make sure we played on most of the days I was there. A good reminder to work hard, but also that life isn’t just about work.
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What if ‘literacy’ is really a framework for developing literacy?
Instead of a centralised process where a small group of people decide what AI literacy means, Tim Fawns suggests that the real literacy may be helping people with the principles of coming to understand what they need to do with AI in their context. In other words, the literacy we should be developing is the…
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Weekly digest 35
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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A pencil literacy framework
A lovely satirical post about the kinds of policies we might see come into play, if pencils were introduced into schools today.
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Instructors as innovators
This paper provides concrete examples of prompts and exercises that cover different pedagogical approaches – simulation, critique, co-creation, mentoring and tutoring. These can serve as a starting point for educators to experiment with AI in their classrooms as part of a pedagogically-informed approach.