I realize that you just received an email from me yesterday, and that it's far too soon for more Audrey in your inbox, but I'd feel a bit negligent if I didn't send out my weekly round-up of ed-tech (sigh, "AI") news.
Software engineer and educator Greg Wilson recently invoked Steve Jobs’ famous quotation, expanding the metaphor to argue that, “if a computer is a bicycle for the mind, then LLMs are like e-bikes.” They let a lot of people go distances and tackle hills that they couldn’t before, and they’
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do/ with your one wild and precious life?" Arguably and more than a little ironically, this may be one of the most frequently invoked lines of poetry on social media – I won't add "for better or worse,
Way back in 2016, Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, memorialized in a photograph of him striding to the stage past rows of men with the Oculus Rift VR headsets strapped to their faces: Fast forward a decade and now the founder of
"AI isn't lightening workloads," The Wall Street Journal reported last week. "It's making them more intense." Well, yes. This is, in fact, how "workload" works under capitalism: labor is perpetually squeezed to do more, to generate more surplus value, to
This morning I attended one of the new NYC Chancellor's public "conversations," his administration's initiative to "engage directly with communities to reflect on what safety, academic rigor, and true integration look like in practice." There were about one hundred folks in attendance,
Two recently-published reports use the same phrase – “human-centered AI” – urging schools to adopt automated and predictive technologies that, as The 74’s Greg Toppo reports, “serve human-centered learning [and] that doesn’t simply push for more efficiency. To do anything else risks creating a generation of young people ill-equipped for