New Tools. Old Complaints. Why AI Won't Kill Education or Fix it %

Great comment from Vicki Davis - "AI isn't the hero or villain of education. The heroes and villains are usually us." www.coolcatteacher.com/artificial-i...

Disappointed in @subaru_usa - been waiting 3 weeks for new ELCM pump for 2yr old Forrester. Metrowest Subaru said pumps failed all over USA and long wait time. Meanwhile, because of CHECKENGINE, most safety features now disabled.

Assessing Claims About the SAVE Act The proposed federal legislation would require proof of citizenship for voter registration.

This article would refute that claim - www.yahoo.com/news/assessi...

Are We Still the United States? I just finished reading Yuval Noah Harari’s book (2024) Nexus (and Audrey Watters would definitely like the cover!). Harari challenged both optimistic and pessimistic views of AI’s impa…

New Post - Is There Still a United States? bwatwood.edublogs.org/2025/01/24/a...

What Does AI Know About Me? Back in my teaching days, when having my students analyze search engines, I used to suggest that one interesting exercise was to Google themselves and see what resulted. Of course, this was back be…

New Post - What does AI know about me? bwatwood.edublogs.org/2024/12/18/w...

An AI enhanced student

New Post - Teaching and Artificial Intelligence - bwatwood.edublogs.org/2024/12/10/t... #AI #GenAI #learning #teachingpractice

New post - A History Lesson - bwatwood.edublogs.org/2024/11/22/a... #blogging #onlineteaching

Four Blogging Questions This week, Harold Jarche posted about his two decades of blogging and the four questions raised by Bryan Cantrill and Cynthia Dunlop: What blog entry was I most proud of? Which one was most difficu…

New post - Four Blogging Questions - bwatwood.edublogs.org/2024/11/21/f...

I did my Masters thesis on a Commodore 64…including coding a program to run t tests! My (not mine) 1st computer was a mainframe programmed with punch cards!

Learning In a Flat World "Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)

Check my blog - bwatwood.edublogs.org

Economics and AI in Post Election America It has been quite a week in America, with basically half the voting public happy that Trump was re-elected and half (my half) wondering how a convicted felon could possibly be elected. I thought Ro…

My latest post - Economics and AI in Post Election America - bwatwood.edublogs.org/2024/11/08/e... #2024election #AI #economics

Took me awhile, but nice to see so many familiar friends on Bluesky!