Students: 'Have a lovely Christmas, see you in January!' Me, staring at the 150 coursework submissions they just uploaded: #AcademicSky #MarkingSeason #StrangerThings

POV: You’re a Lecturer living your best life, ignoring the REF, and you finally speak the students' language. 💅 ​Drop a "Six-Seven" in your lecture today! If you aren't doing this, you're overthinking your delivery, bestie. ☕️ ​ Follow me for more pedagogical hacks! ​#Satire #SixSeven #HE

This week in the newsletter I'm celebrating 1,000,000 reads on the blog - with a huge thanks in particular to the thousands of subscribers to this mailing list! Check it out here and subscribe: us6.campaign-archive.com?u=0e42441724... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEdu #EduSky

Can AI enhance human creativity in education, or does it risk standardizing imagination? What happens when students outsource their creative thinking? blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2...

How can 'personalization' of learning really serve individual learners in practice, without creating new forms of educational segregation? What does 'personalized' actually mean here, and who decides what it means? www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

When GenAI becomes our teaching collaborator, what fundamental questions should we ask first? How do we balance innovation with pedagogical principles that have guided education for generations? cambridge.org/sites/defaul...

"Make America Healthy Again" report: 7/500+ citations don't exist. Perfect example of AI hallucination risks in government policy. Teaching moment: Show students why AI literacy & fact-checking skills are essential NOW. Stakes too high for "trust but don't verify." www.notus.org/health-scien...

Tried Google's #Veo3 text-to-video generator with dialogue from my Wilfred (AI-fan) & Mortimer (AI-skeptic) ChatGPT characters. 8 seconds of pure uncanny valley! Still obviously AI-generated if you look closely, but we definitely need "fake-spotting" in our AI literacy toolkit now.

TEQSA blocks 60 more cheating websites, highlighting ongoing challenges to academic integrity by "predatory academic cheating services" - an no, AI is not mentioned in this context www.teqsa.gov.au/about-us/new...

Estonia's "AI Leap" gives students personal AI accounts, integrating AI into education and focusing on digital ethics. Once more, Estonia is a digital world leader 🇪🇪 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Pedagogical uses of the updated ChatGPT image generation capabilities. Part 1: Don't drink Monster with Blue Cheese Latte flavour! 😂

Talking about creativity & AI earlier in the #LTHEChat - I made a video in #Sora. ""A Norwegian viking ship encountering a UFO in the middle of a calm ocean at midnight. The full moon is casting a mysterious light on the scene. The ship's crew is staring in wonder at the UFO. Cinematic style."

That was an excellent #LTHEChat this Wednesday evening! I often miss it (to my chagrin), but I finally made it, with excellent, thought-provoking questions by @saraheaton.bsky.social! Thank you, and thank you to @lthechat.bsky.social!

​Turnitin's upcoming Clarity tool tracks draft histories & typing patterns. May support learning, but risks creating mistrust & limiting autonomy. Best for writing assessments, less for creative work. Must balance with maintaining trust & independent thinking. www.turnitin.com/blog/turniti...

Humanities skills like philosophy are becoming essential in AI development, especially for ethical considerations, says Steven Johnson, editorial director of Google's NotebookLM - what are your thoughts on this? www.businessinsider.com/notebooklm-e...

Mistral released Saba, a custom model trained on curated Arabic data Exciting - can this make AI more relevant (and less biased) to regions & being open-source, a viable approach for accessibility/equity? Ofc - early days. Curious if Saba can keep Mistral's promises. 👉 mistral.ai/news/mistral...

Oh, DeepSeek came from China's shore, Way hey, roll and go! Claiming billions saved and something more, To me roll and go! They say they trained it cheap and fast, But questions lurk behind their mast, While Western stocks are falling fast, To me roll and go! suno.com/song/46edc31...

Do I have a treat for you! I've curated a list of "12 Days of AI x Education Podcasts", offering a series of highly engaging discussions and balanced insights into the rabbit hole that is AI in Education in 2024. @martc.bsky.social, you're featured 😁 www.linkedin.com/pulse/12-day...

I decided to test ChatGPT's Advanced Voicemode with Vision in class today. After asking it to judge my Sonic The Hedgehog Christmas jumper (it liked it), I asked it to explain a complicated system flowchart and point out a few things therein I tend to ask the students See for yourself 👇

Very much looking forward to digging in. I particularly like the replacing of the traffic light colour panel.

I took 50 of @emollick.bsky.social's "One Useful Thing" blog posts, NotebookLM, Turboscribe, and Heygen - here's the result. Early days, but has potential for accompanying/preceding longer learning materials. youtu.be/AoJUI_V1VYc?...

#Mentimeter has nifty new AI features - highly useful and ... safe! 🧠✨ Transparency matters, doesn't it? Just keep sensitive data out of your audience engagement! Would love to hear your thoughts! Have you tried these AI features in Mentimeter, and did you find them useful? youtu.be/6YNvFd5uXY0

Great #australian data has been released this week from a survey of 8,000 #students and their use of #GenAI and #Ai tools. A few surprises that prove some assumptions wrong on use and adoption. #EduSkyAI #AIEdu #tertiary

My follower count has shot up over the last couple of days. Due to deadlines, haven't posted in a while - so what happened? Anyone knows?

Chatbots don’t make sense they make words. #artificialintelligence #aieducation #aiedu leonfurze.com/2023/11/22/c...

As it's Sunday - here is what I do if I get the TV for a bit (that's a big IF) 😂 Play video games and pretend to be a photographer using photomode.

That Bluesky has the good ol' Twitter-vibe. I have now paused my X-activities, since Mr Musk let this once so useful platform become a cesspool of toxicity and hate. Why would anyone want to seek out such hate? X is an amalgamation of keyboard warriors now.

Honoured to receive the 2024 National Teaching Fellowship at the @advancehe.bsky.social ceremony in Edinburgh! Celebrating excellence in teaching & learning with inspiring colleagues. Grateful to @UniofGreenwich colleagues & students & our collective commitment to innovation in education. #NTFS2024

Made friends with some locals in Edinburgh at @advancehe.bsky.social NTF/CATE Celebrations in excellent Edinburgh 👌

The essay is dead? No, just the "how" is drawing its last breath. Long live the essay!

We're going voice! I think much more impactful and pedagogically useful than AI video at the time of posting 👌

We can bury the notion that “no one wants” GenAI and there are no applications for it. A third of working-age US adults now use it weekly, and 24% use it weekly for work. 10% daily. Source: static1.squarespace.com/static/60832...

Thrilled to announce I've been awarded the National Teaching Fellowship 2024 by AdvanceHE! This prestigious award recognizes outstanding impact on student learning & the teaching profession. Grateful for the support of mentors, colleagues & students throughout my journey. #NTFS #TeachingExcellence

In all things AI - embrace the demon, be wary of the angel!

Exciting 2024 trend: Personalized AI for learners & mentors. Example: Somanasi, a Kenyan AI tool by Kytabu using GPT-4 for culturally sensitive & pedagogically sound learning. How will personalized AI shape your region’s education future? #AIinEducation kytabu.africa/somanasi

Generative AI keeps transforming society, solving real-world problems. Check out this article (in German) about a new tool that uses ChatGPT to provide career guidance in Austria. What are your thoughts on generative AI in 2024? #AI #generativeAI #career orf.at/stories/3344...

And so this is BlueSky, And what have I done? Is X really over? Have Threads really begun? Mastodon was fancy! But just too complex, Too many toots there, What on earth comes next? A very merry BlueSky, In this digital spree, Tweeting’s old-school now, What’s the next thing to be? MERRY BLUESKY!