Category: Learning
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Generative AI and the cognitive apprenticeship model for developing clinical reasoning
This post explores how generative AI can support cognitive apprenticeship in developing clinical reasoning skills. Using a structured approach, I show how AI can enhance various aspects of learning, from providing domain knowledge to simulating patient scenarios, ultimately creating a comprehensive framework for AI-assisted clinical education.
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Claude, create an interactive website
Claude can create interactive educational websites with minimal prompting. This post demonstrates how Claude generated a physiotherapy website with an SVG image, MCQ, and matching activity. While the content is simple, it showcases the potential for rapid development of personal learning materials using AI.
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Complexity as a theory of education
Complexity theory is presented as an emerging transdisciplinary approach that is well-suited to making sense of the complex, adaptive, self-organising phenomena studied by educational researchers. The authors provide a theoretical framework for understanding the complex nature of learning environments, particularly in the context of digital innovation and blended learning.
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This is about control, not learning
A model describing 6 levels of autonomy for personalised learning. Except, the model actually describes 6 levels of control, split between teachers and AI, ignoring the student completely. Let’s rather build a model for integrating AI into learning, where we recognise the agency of learners.
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Generative AI in education and research – RCOT
In this presentation for the Royal College of Occupational Therapists, I explore the key features of GenAI, its potential applications, and the challenges associated with its integration into academic and clinical settings.
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AI tutors are getting very good
I know the idea of AI replicating some parts of the function of a tutor isn’t that comfortable, and there are whole rafts of the more human aspects, such as emotional intelligence, that this work doesn’t go near. But also, we know many students value AI for learning. They value its availability, patience, and lack…
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Building custom GPTs to provide feedback on samples of writing
Introduction “Our results show that i) ChatGPT is capable of generating more detailed feedback that fluently and coherently summarizes students’ performance than human instructors; ii) ChatGPT achieved high agreement with the instructor when assessing the topic of students’ assignments; and iii) ChatGPT could provide feedback on the process of students completing the task, which benefits…
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In Beta podcast: Assessment and learning
http://inbetaphysio.com/2023/06/29/31-assessment-and-learning/ In this conversation, Ben and I had discuss the assessment process, linking it to broader themes of learning, curriculum design, and student experience. We talk about the centralisation of assessment and explore the tensions between institutional control and the autonomy of teachers. We discuss student satisfaction and the influence of risk aversion in educational…
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Physiopedia courses on developing skills to support learning
During 2023 I prepared a series of courses for Physiopedia Plus, aimed at helping students develop skills to support their learning. These courses are an extension of the Learning to Learn In Beta project I started a few years ago. Here are the courses on Physiopedia Plus, which are are accredited in Australia, South Africa,…
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AI reduces the value of synthesis as a skill
If AI reduces the value of synthesis as a skill, what does it do to the rest of Bloom’s taxonomy?
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An AI-supported health professions tutor (and a brief comparison with Claude)
https://hpe-bot.com/ Update: For more information about the additional functionality of this bot, see this LinkedIn post by Lambert Schuwirth. The interface is a bit basic, and I haven’t played around with it much, but it seems to do a decent job with the kinds of questions I asked. Also, the premium account seems to offer…
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When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object
TL;DR (generated by Claude, lightly edited by me). The rise of abundant expertise in the form of generative AI questions the university monopoly on expertise provision and validation. Leadership in the creative deployment of AI for learning, teaching, and assessment will require a change in mindset and a shift towards a new paradigm, which universities…
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Generative AI in higher education – HELTASA conference
This is a recording of a presentation I gave at the HELTASA conference, on the topic of generative AI in higher education. The focus of the talk was on ChatGPT but I tried to think about generative AI more broadly, including image generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. I also tried to avoid making this…
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The seductive appeal of measuring outcomes in edtech research – SAAHE SIG webinar
In this SAAHE webinar, I discuss the limitations of comparative study designs in education technology research, which often fail to control for confounding variables and focus too much on specific outcomes. Instead, I propose decoupling teaching from learning, suggesting that research should consider whether observed student behaviours align with established good learning practices, rather than…
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Thinking in public: A conversation with Tom Jesson
Tom Jesson is a physiotherapist, and self-employed researcher and writer based in Houston Texas, who I’ve wanted to speak to for a while. While I’ve always known Tom to be a thoughtful and careful writer, evident in his work that’s been published and shared widely in physiotherapy circles, I’ve not really thought much about how…
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I can’t help but feel like Lego has lost its way a little bit
in LearningWe’re trying to figure out what to get my daughter for Christmas and I’ve been a disappointed with the way that I see Lego marketing it’s products. There’s clearly an option that’s designed to appeal to boys and a different option for girls. In the past, you just had Lego, where anyone can build anything.…
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Time to look for hope somewhere else
To the best of my knowledge I’ve never written about politics on this site and I don’t think I will again. But I felt like this post was something I needed to do. Every weekend I try to spend a half hour or so reading the news over coffee with varying degrees of success, depending…