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Humans, Generative AI, and Learning from Copyrighted Materials

Iterating Toward Openness

Blatantly, demonstrably untrue: the GPT3 dataset is a little over 600GB, primarily Wikipedia, Books corpuses, WebText and 2016-2019 CommonCrawl. But the topic of AI training data also intersects with another topic that’s near and dear to my heart: copyright. The Macbook Air I am typing this on has more free disk space than that.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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Open Up Resources Takes A Digital Leap Through Kiddom Partnership

Edsurge

Kiddom , a startup based in San Francisco, will offer core curriculum materials from the nonprofit publisher on its curriculum management system. On Kiddom, teachers can upload lessons and resources, distribute assignments and get data on how students perform against academic standards. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition)

Doug Levin

Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. What do I mean?

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6 IT nightmares plaguing schools-and 6 solutions to stop them

eSchool News

From constricted budgets to needing to protect large numbers of devices and users, educational institutions face a unique set requirements for data protection and business continuity. As a result, many school IT departments are struggling to create new data backup and business continuity practices. Next page: IT challenges 3-6).

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The Benefits of Video in the Digital Classroom

ViewSonic Education

63% also believe it increases the relevancy and quality of the instructional materials. Increases the relevancy and quality of the instructional materials (63%). Provides an innovative way for instruction to be personalized for each student (56). That's a 45% increase in just one year. If not yet, it will be soon.

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PROOF POINTS: Fixing online credit recovery remains elusive

The Hechinger Report

Online credit recovery programs were a big driver of improving high school graduation rates, which soared from under 70 percent in 2007 to over 84 percent in 2016. Journalists discovered cheating scandals and evidence of low-quality instructional materials. But there was a downside.