Tag: productivity
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Efficiency in teaching is important, but learning is importanter
When we focus solely on how AI can automate teaching tasks, we miss its transformative potential for learning. The question isn’t whether AI can grade papers faster, but whether it might help learners navigate complexity, connect diverse perspectives, and construct meaning in ways previously unimaginable in traditional educational environments.
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Head Space course discount during January
Head Space is offering a 25% discount on online courses this January, for new newsletter subscribers. The courses aim to provide health professions educators with practical strategies for establishing sustainable academic workflows.
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My AI Breakthrough
https://mgblog.org/2024/08/24/my-ai-breakthrough.html …something that took me WEEKS of hard work, and in some cases I found impossible, was made easy. Like, instead of weeks, it takes 10 minutes. The hard part? Building the prompt to do what I want, fine-tuning it to get the result. Every time I read something about how AI doesn’t work, I…
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Sale: Head space courses are 25% off until the end of January
Are you an academic who wants to work smarter, not harder? Do you want to improve your productivity, time management, and workflow without sacrificing your well-being and career goals? If so, you might be interested in the Head space online courses, designed for busy academics who want to get back to a sense of calm productivity.…
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Link: Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and-cyborgs-on-the-jagged There’s a lot to think about in this post by Ethan Mollick, but here are some of my favourites points. “…consultants using ChatGPT-4 outperformed those who did not, by a lot. On every dimension. Every way we measured performance.” “…There is no instruction manual. On some tasks AI is immensely powerful, and on others…
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Calm Productivity course is on sale
Summer sale The Calm Productivity course is on sale until the 31st of August. The Calm Productivity course is aimed at busy academics who are stressed, under pressure, and working extended hours just to get through a ‘normal’ workload. By embracing a structured workflow, Calm Productivity helps create sustainable approaches to academia without sacrificing your…
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Using Obsidian for academic writing and creativity
In this conversation with Dave Nicholls, I describe how I use Obsidian to support my academic writing and creative process, in response to Dave’s question: Is using Obsidian worth it? I explain how I’ve set up different vaults in Obsidian, depending on what it is that I’m trying to do, and use examples from my…
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Head space: Calm productivity for knowledge work
Head space is a programme for academics who want to establish new habits and routines aimed at cultivating a space for calm productivity. To escape the unproductive and frenetic activities that fill our days. And to create the head space we need to do the work we love. I’ve started A New Thing. It’s called Head space…
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Comment: Audiobook listening as scholarship
I sometimes lose track of what I’m listening to, I start thinking over it in a way which almost drowns out the track. I might make a note to follow up a point from the audiobook but I don’t get to it for days by which point the intellectual urge has vanished and I can’t…
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Weekly digest (24-28 May 2021)
Ads in academic journals? Recently I had to disable my ad-blocking extensions to troubleshoot a problem I’m having with a service and I forgot to turn them back on. So I was surprised to visit a journal website and see the number of ads displayed down the side. As if journals don’t make enough money…