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Notes from Kevin O’Neill (Bullock, 2025). A key element of that is finding the tension between support and challenge. How do you fine tune how to support students, what kinds of prompts and when to let them flounder a bit. How far down a garden path you should let students towards an incorrect solution before…
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Do you think there is a useful distinction to be made between a ChatBot and an AI Assistant? Why and why not? Yes, in my mind we can make a distinction for Chatbots that are basically stochastic parrots and carry on a conversation even they maybe using Large Language Models (LLM). An AI Assistant can…
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Chris Dede explains Intelligence Augmentation (IA) as when a person and AI are working together to do things neither are able to do well on their own. I find this so cool, IA and AI or AI and IA ! Chris Dede points to an interesting scenario. A teacher working with an AI Teaching Assistant…
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What are the tensions between “efficiency” arguments and fundamentally new paradigms for teaching and learning? Yes, AI will contribute to a transformation of education. And yes, AI has the potential to benefit students and help teachers with their workload. But we need to remember the human aspect of teaching and learning. And AI can never…
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Lin (2024) also wrote on what the general consensus is in my readings, and I agree with it, that AI has a long way to go before it can completely do the many things a teacher do in a busy classroom. Lin (2024) also pointed out that the significant limitation of AI tools, that they…
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Selwyn (2024) paper is so important that I am just going to embed the whole paper into my Learning Portfolio here and read the whole thing every time. “There is no I in AI” by Steven Pemberton. I listened to this video and rewound it so many times that I lost count. I know that…
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Education theory holds that student learning is optimized when teachers tailor instruction to individual needs, often called student-centered teaching. But student-centered education is nearly impossible in the conventional classroom, where teachers juggle large numbers of student-clients, compared with most other human-services occupations. Moreover, students arrive at school with diverse backgrounds, needs, and abilities. Yet schools…
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Baillifard, Gabella, Lavenex & Martarelli, (2025) reported on a study on integration of AI tutors to complement a learning program and reported that students who used the AI tutor achieved significantly higher grades. The researchers also evaluated the effectiveness of the AI-tutor’s neural-network models to model human learning processes. The name of the company who…
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Our starting point in this very first lesson are the questions: What, if anything, have you used AI for? Why did you use it? Are you concerned about the effects of AI in society more generally? Are you concerned about the effects of AI in your educational context? Do you think AI is ‘over-hyped’? I…