Category: Technology
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AI, social media, and the shifting standards of content quality
in TechnologyAs the web overflows with unfiltered information, the debate over content quality resurfaces in the age of generative AI. While both social media and AI produce a spectrum of content, a crucial difference emerges: AI labs are incentivised to optimise for excellence, unlike the misaligned incentives driving much of human-generated online content.
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Video conferencing impact on climate change
in TechnologyI’m not a huge fan of any of these services so have no emotional attachment to which is worse (I’d prefer using something like Jitsi). But I did think it was useful to note the significant difference in the climate change impact of the biggest service providers. Given the prevalence of Zoom, and availability of…
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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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Reimagining trust in academia through networked transparency
Academia should move from outsourced trust via publishers to networked transparency. While traditional publishing established mechanisms like persistent identification and peer review, today’s technology enables these functions to operate openly. Version control systems document the evolution of knowledge creation, open platforms invite diverse feedback, and scholarly control of these mechanisms creates more responsive, values-aligned academic…
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Digital Health Considerations for Clinicians – Norwegian Physiotherapy conference
Digital healthcare tools offer exciting possibilities while raising important questions for practitioners. In this presentation for the 2025 Norwegian Physiotherapy conference, I explored a range of considerations for clinicians around the integration of technology into practice. The key question I considered was, how do we ensure technology serves our patients’ needs while mitigating the risks…
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Wikitok is a TikTok-style interface for exploring Wikipedia articles
in Technologyhttps://wikitok.vercel.app A TikTok-style interface for exploring random Wikipedia articles. I love this idea. I’ve added the app to my home screen and instead of killing time doom-scrolling on Twitter, I do the same thing on Wikipedia.
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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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Semantic Reader update
A brief overview of some of the skimming features available in Semantic Reader.
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Beyond silos: AI as a personal knowledge management system
The future of personal knowledge management lies beyond siloed note-taking apps. We need a system that integrates information across various platforms and formats, creating meaningful connections in our fragmented digital lives. Whether through browser-based solutions, operating system integration, or local AI models, the goal is a seamless, intelligent layer that unifies our entire digital ecosystem.
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Improve online reading with Reader view in Firefox
This post describes the Reader View feature in Firefox, which allows users to read web pages in a clutter-free, distraction-free mode with customisable text and background settings, making it ideal for online reading.
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Zettlr is an open-source writing platform for academics
I’ve always been fascinated with the tools people use to write (I should write a follow-up to that post), and over the last couple of years that interest has been focused on what I think of as . Your one-stop publication workbench. From idea to publication in one app: Zettlr accompanies you while writing your…
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Automated page translation in Firefox
Firefox’s page translation feature allows users to translate web pages directly in the browser, ensuring privacy by running the language model locally. While the translations are not perfect, it’s a convenient option for simple browsing activities, without relying on cloud services or sending data to servers.
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Blended Intensive Programmes on Digital Health and AI
ai, artificial intelligence, assignment, BIP, Blended Intensive Programme, digital health, digital health technology, European Commission, genAI, health intervention, healthcare technology, online learning, personal organisation, personal productivity, professional education, prompting, student modility, workshopDuring April-May, I participated in two Blended Intensive Programmes at Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão, coordinated by Antonio Lopes, in collaboration with European physiotherapy schools. These programmes combined short-term physical mobility abroad and online components, featuring topics like digital health technologies, responsible AI use in education and research, and generative AI workshops.
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BIP Digital Health – Technology for managing healthcare interventions
In this Blended Intensive Programme in Digital Health, Joost van Wijchen and I discuss the influential role of technology in managing and recording healthcare interventions. We highlight the risks of uncritical technology adoption, examine how user interface design impacts patient care, and call for ethical considerations and sustainable practices. And we talk about empowering digital…
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BIP Digital Health – Technology to support the intervention process
In this Blended Intensive Programme in Digital Health, Christian Grüneberg, Franziska Weber and I, explore the impact of technology on physiotherapy practice. We discuss patient- and person-centred care, the role shift for physiotherapists, and the importance of digital health literacy. Participants were encouraged to innovate and identify steps to integrate digital technologies in practice, enhancing…
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BIP in Digital Health – Responsible use of digital health technologies
In this Blended Intensive Programme in Digital Health, Joost van Wijchen and I discussed responsible digital health technologies, focusing on security, regulatory, and ethical considerations, and Good Clinical Practice guidelines. We also discussed challenges in physiotherapy education and practice, emphasising the importance of proactively addressing risks and harnessing the benefits of digital health innovations.
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In Beta podcast: Digital health and learning
Last week I met with Joost van Wijchen to brainstorm a joint session we’re offering on an Erasmus+ funded Blended Intensive Programme on Digital Health. We recorded the session for later reflection but decided to also publish it as a podcast. Here’s a great outline that Joost very generously put together, covering some of the…
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Humane AI Pin
https://hu.ma.ne/aipin The first wearable device and software platform built to harness the full power of artificial intelligence (AI). Ai Pin marks a new beginning for personal consumer technology, offering users the ability to take AI with them everywhere in an entirely new, conversational and screenless form factor. Ai Pin will be available to order in…
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Who is responsible for building the software stack we use in higher education?
There was an interesting conversation in one of the sessions I attended, after a participant asked who is responsible for building the software we use in higher education. Universities aren’t in the business of building software, so it seems reasonable to think that we’re not going to do this well. Companies and organisations are designed…
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Evolving and disrupting disciplinary technology and pedagogical technology
People seem happy to accept that their disciplinary technologies and processes evolve and are disrupted over time, but they’re less happy to accept that their pedagogical technologies and processes need to evolve and be disrupted at the same time.