AI thinkers for English teachers — Julian Girdham Links to thinkers about artificial intelligence, whose writings I find helpful in navigating its implications for English.

For tonight's #edchatie discussion: anyone interested, I put this draft list together of provocative and helpful thinkers (mostly relevant for English). Mentioning writers like @marcwatkins.bsky.social & @janerosenzweig.bsky.social & @audreywatters.bsky.social

www.juliangirdham.com/blog/ai-reso...

If you're following the OpenAI o3 announcements and are curious about the "ARC-AGI" benchmark and why I think solving these tasks by brute-force compute defeats the original purpose, here are some past posts about this from my Substack: (1/3)

Google's Deep Research is an excellent application of agentic capabilities. One example something it can do pretty well is search for all my podcasts and interviews and create a webpage listing them. Cuts down effort at least 10x compared to doing it manually.

Really good thread on fake AI generated papers

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

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This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact

An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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Eliminating accessibility barriers with Echo360 YouTube video by Jisc

The recording of my talk on widening access to higher education w/ lecture recordings as part of a @jisc.bsky.social & Echo360 event on accessibility is now available. If inclusivity & why lecture capture is a terrible yet vital form of UDL sounds good to you, check it out!
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that is not being difficult at all. it's common sense.

Institutional AI literacy. This, IMO, is the real strength of the MLA-CCCC task force report which considers "all agents in the academic enterprise: students, faculty members, programs or departments, and institutions" aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-pape...

Author copies for my new book have arrived! It not only looks amazing, It's also certified to be all killer, no filler. The book releases in early January—and I'll be launching the book in San Francisco on January 30th, more details soon—please pre-order your copy here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

AI Education Podcast: Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and Research Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and ResearchSeries 10, Episode 8 We explore quite a lot of news related to AI in Education that arrived this week, which meant we didn't get to cover nearly as m...

This week's #AIinEducation podcast discusses the new OpenAI course for teachers, an AI Turing test, avoiding discriminatory use of AI, Brisbane Catholic Education's 'AI for everybody', new market research that says 'everybody's using AI', and the TEQSA AI guidance aipodcast.education/everybody-or...

If anyone else wants to check out the recording of the #NotebookLM workshop and 14 other #AIEdu topics, all the recordings are here:

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Happy learning!

"Is ChatGPT plagiarising?", "What principals should guide the ethical use of AI?", these are great lessons from Stanford CRAFT AI Literacy Resources craft.stanford.edu/resources/ #ADEchat #AppleEDUchat #EdChat #AIinEdu #EduSkyAI

Writing Against AI: Free Session Resources Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) conference and presenting on ‘Writing Against AI’. I’m a VATE Council member…

New post with open access resources: Writing Against AI.

As part of the growing narrative around "resisting and refusing" AI in writing instruction, I ran this session at the #VATE conference last week.

#artificialintelligence #aieducation #aiedu #aiined #aiinedu

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