Tag: competence
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Obstacles to developing academic expertise
Developing academic expertise is challenging due to delayed feedback, unclear processes, and limited opportunities to observe experts. The post explores how academic tools and systems often lack the capacity for nuanced expression and open-endedness, making it difficult for scholars to attain virtuosity in their field and develop expert performance.
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What if AI is a better teacher than me?
We all agree that having a solid foundation of knowledge is important. And we seem to make the assumption that AI doesn’t have a role to play in this process (i.e. the student must develop the knowledge foundation). But from another perspective, what if it turns out that AI is better at helping students build…
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Rejected AMEE abstract (oral presentation) | Is ‘being human’ enough? Preparing for clinical practice in the age of artificial intelligence
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. Introduction Identity is central to our understanding of the health professions, and much of professionaleducation revolves around this core value. The introduction of artificially intelligent tools (AI-based systems) into clinical practice has led to resistance in the face of perceived threats to clinician autonomy (Jussupow…
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Comment: The danger of AI is weirder than you think.
AI can be really destructive and not know it. So the AIs that recommend new content in Facebook, in YouTube, they’re optimized to increase the number of clicks and views. And unfortunately, one way that they have found of doing this is to recommend the content of conspiracy theories or bigotry. The AIs themselves don’t…
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Comment: In competition, people get discouraged by competent robots
After each round, participants filled out a questionnaire rating the robot’s competence, their own competence and the robot’s likability. The researchers found that as the robot performed better, people rated its competence higher, its likability lower and their own competence lower. Lefkowitz, M. (2019). In competition, people get discouraged by competent robots. Cornell Chronicle. This…
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AMEE conference (day 2)
accreditation, AMEE, AMEE11, anatomy course, athol kent, clinical competencies, collaboration, competence, dental students, distance education, Distance Learning, encyclopaedia, fictional city, gaming in education, global medical education, global medicine, globalisation, interanationalisation, international medical education, language, learning resources, lexicon, life-long education, life-long learning, mobile devices, mobile learning, portfolios, professional culture, reflective journals, self-directed learning, virtual city, virtual clinical encounterThese are the notes I took on the second day of AMEE. One of the things I noticed is that in most of the presentations the speakers talk about “doctors”, and that little is said about “health professionals”. There seem to be few people here who understand that effective healthcare can only be delivered by…
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The role of clinicians in student assessment
A few weeks ago I was at a workshop attended mainly by clinicians who are involved in student supervision. One of the questions asked was about the role of clinicians in student assessment. I thought it was worth writing a short note about the general feeling in the room, and my own thoughts on the…
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Assessing the assessor: keynote from SAAHE conference
Here are my notes from the second keynote address I attended at the SAAHE conference at the University of Stellenbosch on 20 June, 2008. Professor Christina Tan from the University of Malaya (Malaysia) discussed the importance of ensuring competence among those responsible for examining students, as well as a few interesting points on why we…