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Will 2024 Look Like 1984?
A world rife with generative text will supercharge surveillance Unchecked generative AI will create calls for intrusive surveillance the likes of which exist now for many remote workers for all of us—students, teachers, & admin, regardless of the modality we work in. Many universities are shutting off their AI detector tools because they are too…
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Using Generative Video
A free lesson from my course Generative AI in Education Our focus on text-based chatbots, like ChatGPT, and the implications this has on education is shortsighted, given the capability of the underlying technology. Chatbot interfaces offer limited interaction and Large Language Models or LLMs are just one flavor of generative AI using transformer-based systems. Image…
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Using ChatGPT for Instructional Design
A free lesson from my course Generative AI in Education Microsoft’s Will AI Fix Work survey indicated that 70% of the respondents “would delegate as much work as possible to AI to lessen their workloads.” I’ve found this to be true among educators who are interested in using generative AI in areas like instructional design.…
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The Room is Getting Crowded
Anthropic’s Claude Joins a Growing List of GenAI Tools TL/DR note: I recently released a course about Generative AI in Education, and the first pathway is about teaching folks AI literacy. Such understanding will be foundational in education as major tech companies continue to deploy and scale generative AI systems in public. I’ve released the…
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Course Launch Announcement
I’m launching a course about Generative AI in Education In June, I helped develop an immersive in-person training program for faculty to explore how generative AI is impacting education at the University of Mississippi and our first AI Institute for Teachers was a great success. Many people contacted me and expressed interest in a virtual…
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Chatbot U: OpenAI Academy
The partnership between Khan Academy and OpenAI is on the horizon OpenAI and Khan Academy will partner to form OpenAI Academy. It’s set to launch at some point at the end of 2023 and will supposedly be one of the first to get upgraded to GPT-5. I think we can ignore the hype surrounding the model for…
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The Urgent Need for AI Literacy in Education
We’re not going to be able to resist GenAI, if we don’t understand it No one knows how quickly Microsoft, Google, and Amazon will move from beta testing generative AI within their Office and Workplace products into a wide release, but it isn’t hard to foresee the impact this will have across K-12 and Higher…
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There’s No Turning Back
In a matter of months, Microsoft and Google will upgrade their Office and G suite of tools with generative AI, greeting users with the choice to generate content or write organically—each time a user opens a document. This represents a profound challenge and opportunity for education. We have little choice but to arm ourselves with…
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Spotting Bullshit in the Era of GenAI
There’s too Much Nonsense on the Web Now, How Do We Prepare for GenAI? I often fantasize about teaching a course about our cultural moment, and boy are we in one now. GenAI’s impact may be far reaching, challenging core concepts about what it means to write, to read, and “be” within our digital realms.…
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From Panic to Reality: How Generative AI is Actually Impacting Student Writing
I won’t bury the lead—many of my students aren’t using ChatGPT or other generative AI tools in numbers or ways that genuinely threaten academic integrity or warrant the panic we’ve been seeing. This is after allowing them to explore the technology in structured assignments and freely within their own writing. It has been two full…
MARC WATKINS 