Tag: interview

Weekly digest 43

Oct 20, 2024

in Digest

AI for academics, bias, Como, Devin, essays, gender bias, head space, interview, Italy, peer review, reasoning, software development, Switzerland, Vacallo, workshops

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.
ChatGPT, turn my article into a public radio-type conversation

Jun 29, 2024

in AI, Research

academic writing, audio recording, ChatGPT, conversation, interview, journals, public radio, summary

I asked ChatGPT to 1) summarise my article for a lay audience, 2) create a transcript of a public radio-type conversation, 3) generate a downloadable audio file of the conversation. It took 10 seconds.
‘Academic writing’ includes more than we think

Jul 11, 2023

in Writing

academia, academic writing, application, blogging, cv, email, essay, grant application, interview, magazines, peer review, podcasts, proposal, social media, writing

https://patthomson.net/2023/07/10/academic-writing-its-a-lot/ When we talk about academic writing, as usually refer to papers, books, chapters and dissertations. However, there’s a lot more to academic writing than just these four.
Resource: An overview of note-taking workflow and tools from Ton Zijlstra

Oct 25, 2021

in Reading, Scholarship, Writing

hypothes.is, interview, note-taking, obsidian, reading, tasks, to do lists, workflow, writing

There are hundreds of resources on note-taking systems so don’t take this post as anything more than a collection that caught my attention. Once you go down the ‘zettelkasten’ or ‘digital garden’ rabbit holes, you may find that it takes a while to get out again. If you already have a sense of what the…
Comment: There’s a new obstacle to getting a job after college: Getting approved by AI

Jan 31, 2020

in AI, Note

employee, employment, hiring, interview, reliability, selection, self-driving cars, validity

Companies may not be ready to outsource vetting candidates for C-Suite and executive positions to algorithms, but the stakes are lower for entry-level roles and internships. That means some of today’s college students are effectively the guinea pigs for a largely unproven mechanism for evaluating applicants. Metz, R. (2019). There’s a new obstacle to getting…
Research project exploring clinicians’ perspectives of the introduction of ML into clinical practice

May 24, 2019

in AI, Clinical

abstract, clinical practice, clinician, interview, machine learning, perceptions, perspectives, physiotherapy, proposal, questionnaire, research, study

I recently received ethics clearance to begin an explorative study looking at how physiotherapists think about the introduction of machine learning into clinical practice. The study will use an international survey and a series of interviews to gather data on clinicians’ perspectives on questions like the following: What aspects of clinical practice are vulnerable to…
Graduates are taking £9k courses to help beat AI interviews for City jobs

Oct 11, 2018

in AI

employment, interview

Via a webcam, the software remotely asks preliminary-round candidates 20 minutes of questions and brain-teasers, and records eye movements, breathing patterns and any nervous tics. Popular software such as HireVue also scans for emotion and expressions, such as blinks, smiles and frowns, by monitoring the face through the applicant’s front-facing smartphone camera or computer webcam.…
Interview: The use of technology-mediated teaching and learning in physiotherapy education

Nov 27, 2013

in Curriculum, Learning, Physiotherapy, Teaching

interview, learning, physiopedia, physiospot, Rachael Lowe, teaching, teaching and learning, technology-mediated

I was recently asked to do a short interview by Physiospot, on the use of technology-mediated teaching and learning in physiotherapy education. As it turns out, the bulk of the interview relates more specifically to a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, rather than the use of technology. However, I think that this makes it potentially…