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The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) – SULS0190

Shake Up Learning

” Whoever controls the AI technology will control and manipulate many things in our lives and classrooms. If you Google the “dark side of GPT,” this should make you pause before using this in the classroom. They recommend books that don’t exist. Robots will move so fast that you need a strobe light to see them.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” NPR asks whose bones made up those old classroom skeletons. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?! ” Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Amazing what reading a book will do for you. Via Wired : “How Apple Lost Its Place in the Classroom.” ” Via The New York Times : “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. This, on school shootings , absolutely gutted me.

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

Hack Education

Education technologies facilitate communication, expanding learning networks beyond the classroom. And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. Perhaps they do. ” Command.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Edsurge and Getting Smart promote venture capitalist Ryan Craig ’s new book A New U and the idea that “ faster + cheaper alternatives will replace most of higher ed.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” “Do Voice Assistant Devices Have a Place in the Classroom?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” ” Via The Verge : “ Amazon is launching a $23 subscription book box for kids.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Activate Learning has acquired Conceptua Math.

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