Tag: technology
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Link: AI and trust
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-trust.html “In this talk, I am going to make several arguments. One, that there are two different kinds of trust—interpersonal trust and social trust—and that we regularly confuse them. Two, that the confusion will increase with artificial intelligence. We will make a fundamental category error. We will think of AIs as friends when they’re really…
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Podcast: Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/michael-webb-ai-jobs-labour-market/ Host Luisa Rodriguez interviews economist Michael Webb of DeepMind, the British Government, and Stanford about how AI progress is going to affect people’s jobs and the labour market. They cover:
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Podcast: Ian Morris on whether deep history says we’re heading for an intelligence explosion
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/ian-morris-deep-history-intelligence-explosion/ Host Rob Wiblin speaks with repeat guest Ian Morris about what big-picture history says about the likely impact of machine intelligence. They cover:
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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.
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Threat to assessment…
Concerns around technology in higher education tend to emphasise the threats to assessment rather than the benefits to learning.
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What if the endpoint for teachers is to serve AI?
The posts I read about AI in education tend to fall into two main categories: I don’t find either of these arguments compelling but will only respond to the second one in this post. We have a long history of incorrect assumptions that technology will free us from the mundane tasks that no-one wants to…
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Technology platforms aren’t communities
You can use an outstanding technology platform that will facilitate engagement, interaction, sharing, collaboration, etc. but without engaged, interactive, generous people who want to work with each other in community, the technology won’t do much at all. Conversely, a group of like-minded people who want to do interesting things will manage even if they have…
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Seeing beyond our own paradigms
Yesterday I saw this tweet from Enrico Coiera: So I downloaded the editorial and noted these sections: Through the Internet, the public has access to a growing supply of information on health and disease, often of variable quality and relevance. As a result, providing information on health will no longer be the exclusive remit of…
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Universal principles of learning task design. Crisis edition.
It seems that everyone has decided to move teaching, learning and assessment online with a massive focus on synchronous, video-based lectures as the primary means of “delivering” the curriculum remotely. It’s as if we don’t have about 100 years of experience with distance learning to draw from and that there are no lessons to be…
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Comment: Email is the original robust, decentralised technology
Email is the original robust, decentralised technology. It’s built on open standards. It’s free. You can do almost anything with it,. This is why, despite Silicon Valley trying to come up with alternatives, email refuses to ‘die’. It’s just too useful.People used to complain about email and the flood of messages in their inbox. But…
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Training students for jobs that don’t exist yet. Or not.
The top 10 in demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet. It takes some work to find out that the claim is not true.…
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Virtual reality in clinical education: A research project outline
I was lucky enough to spend some time chatting with Ben Ellis from Oxford Brookes University, about the possibilities of using VR for clinical education. A decade ago virtual reality was something that only the military and high end research labs could afford. But recently, thanks to initiatives like Google’s Cardboard, Daydream and Jump, pretty good VR experiences…
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Response to an email on the use of technology in the classroom
I just received an email from someone who read my article in The Conversation, “Technology is no longer a luxury for universities – it’s a necessity“. They asked two questions and I thought I’d post my response here. The questions were: Do you think teachers have to show students how to use the software which is…
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altPhysio | Technology as infrastructure
This is the fourth post in my altPhysio series, where I’m exploring alternative ways of thinking about a physiotherapy curriculum by imagining what a future school might look like. This post is a bit longer than other because this is an area I’m really interested in and spend a lot of time thinking about. I’ve also added more links…
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Technology will make lecturers redundant – but only if they let it
Technology will make lecturers redundant — but only if they let it This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. A teacher walks into a classroom and begins a lesson. As she speaks, the audio is translated in real time into a variety of languages that students have pre-selected, so each…
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Technology is no longer a luxury for universities – it’s a necessity
This is a republication of my article on The Conversation. See bottom of the post for the link to the original. In the world’s new knowledge economy, innovation and technological change are recognised as the primary drivers of progress. Technological and digital literacy will be a crucial part of helping many countries move beyond their…
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Thoughts on my first article for The Conversation
I pitched 3 ideas for articles to The Conversation: Africa at the end of last year, one of which was picked up to develop and publish. A few days ago I gave the go-ahead for it to be published and am happy to report that it is live. It’s called Technology is no longer a…
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Without anyones permission: The open web and online learning
As teaching and learning activities move into online and blended learning environments we need to think carefully about how we use those spaces, which is often determined by the features of the platforms and services we choose. One topic in the field on online learning that’s been getting a lot of attention, is the MOOC (the New York…
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Developing digital literacy and citizenship
This post was inspired by Teaching Respect and Responsibility – Even to Digital Natives, by Holly Korbey. It has been cross-posted at Unteaching. When I talk to colleagues about the possibility of bringing computers and the internet into their classrooms, I often feel a sense of fear, uncertainty and doubt enter the conversation. They worry…