A mashup image rendered in a sickly green, "Stranger Things" style, showing a Vecna-like Grinch figure with tentacles and a gnarled staff. He stands in a ruined, stormy Christmas landscape filled with broken presents, decaying wreaths, and a corrupted tree, with green lightning flashing in the sky. The title "STRANGER GRINCH" appears in a glowing green, neon font at the bottom. Generated with Nano Banano Pro.

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

#AcademicSky #MarkingSeason #StrangerThings

I wished they also measured/published the best estimate of resource consumption of these models.

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. ☕️
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​#Satire #SixSeven #HE

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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...

Cartoon-style image representing the exploration of personalized AI learning for diverse students

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...

Educator contemplating AI questions in retro classroom setting

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...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

"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."
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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 eschews phone bans in schools and takes leap into AI Country at top of education charts aims to equip students and teachers with ‘world-class artificial intelligence skills’

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 🇪🇪

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

Has it pedagogical value? Maybe. Was it fun? Definitely.

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."

Something we work on from cradle to grave 💪

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!

Indeed. I ran an (internal) AI training session recently - prompting techniques. "But what if students cheat with that?" - no no no! Ask why (some) students may feel the "need" to cheat! What may be the root causes for a specific assignment (in case there are problems)? Ask that.

I call it "the witchhunt mindset" 🧙

You could claude it 😂

Humanities have such an important - crucial - role in ethical AI development and use. Think what philosophy and psychology can contribute here! Cutting them is negligence!

YES! I keep saying in the AI trainings I run - "talking" to AI tools has improved my precision and clarity in how I communicate today. Less "reading between the lines", more face value.

A6 - Life literacy. In 5-10 years, GenAI will be as "normal" as smart devices are today. And we're still struggling to teach our kids to be literate with those. The most important skill: Learn to never want to stop learning! #LTHEChat

"Ipse se nihil scire id unum sciat" comes to mind 😊

I sign that, too. More often than not, we don't need to know 100% to move on successfully - 60%, 70%, 80% (I'm making up percentages) might be sufficient.

Most definitely. Personally, I've never been as creative in creating images/videos using AI tools than before (now I have a tool that helps me express my "artistic" side). The so-called "higher level skills" come to play and they're here to stay!

A5 - Help them "experience" the problems stemming from human-made data used in LLMs. A little exercise: Have them AI-generate an essay in class & then ask them to mark it (rubric), check sources, synthesis, line of arguments, overview, etc. - and they may notice that there are flaws. Lots. #LTHEChat

Signed!

Indeed - and how does this make our students feel? Trusted? I asked mine, and they rejected the sentiment. Academic micromanagement?

I'd say so. Let's play this even more to the extreme & say - every human idea is based on experiences, lessons learned, preferences, filters, etc. etc. My (hopefully) creative ideas seem to always spring from something I have seen/heard/experienced before - but would not know exactly each "source".

A4 - Personal take: Policies may need to move towards flexible, agile frameworks/guidelines allowing redefinitions of "academic integrity" as technology evolves. AI won't be the last disruptor to education - maybe policies need to reflect that? What will happen when quantum computing hits? #LTHEChat