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Preparing students for a world shaped by artificial intelligence | Letters

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 9d

Some interesting and thoughtful responses to our letter - thank you. The situation regarding GenAI and assessments and learning is clearly very troubling. We need serious consideration of this, probably at a national level.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Letters: Readers respond to a letter which said that AI is undermining learning at universities

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 11d

"Print to PDF" gets a lot of usage

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 12d

Just had an unexpected royalty payment from Sage, from books published about ten years ago. I'm guessing this is from licensing my books to #GenAI 'training' without asking permission? Is this normal? What do authors make of this?

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 15d

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Please feel free to attend / share the flyer!

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 17d

Indeed, a very weird article. Also it ignores that this government has no interest in protecting universities. Labour's priority is to play to potential and actual Reform voters, so we can forget about anything that might help universities (as supposed bastions of 'woke').

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 17d

Attica! Attica!

The Impact Of AI Tools On The Next Decade Of Education Innovation

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18d

Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...

Education technology is more of a commitment to shaping a future where every learner has the tools to succeed.

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Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 17d

A whole series of important and accurate points. Marking undergraduate work in the last 12 months or so has been extremely challenging. There is very widespread student misuse of AI. Students are being constantly prompted to use it by tech companies and media.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Letter

Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness

How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Letter

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 17d

GenAI is already failing students horribly in higher education. Its effects in schools could be yet more serious.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness

How to use ChatGPT at university without cheating: ‘Now it’s more like a study partner’

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24d

Vacuous, generic and scattershot advice for incoming 1st years on the use of AI at university. Especially liking 'Chin recommends giving it class notes and asking it to generate practice exam questions.' Surely we can't be the only programme that supplies students with past & practice exams?

The ubiquitous AI tool has a divisive effect on educators with some seeing it a boon and others a menace. So what should you know about where to draw the line between check and cheat?

How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Letter

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Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 17d

How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian share.google/HwT4lS2JrDuu...

Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness

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Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 20d

Maybe it's time to go and make yourself a nice cup of tea? Your sentiment score might move up into the high 0.1s.

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 22d

I can imagine. Sometimes the LLMs throw out these weird, erroneous, ghost academic references. Kind of 'best guess mashups', along the lines of the kind of stuff specific academics write, but inaccurate and nonexistent. Meantime the real sources do exist, and are easy to find, download and read.

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 22d

I still have a 10inch laptop running XP. Disabled the network card, obvs. Good for writing when you need zero interruptions. Word works really well on it.

How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Letter

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 22d

Some more thoughts on this from myself and a colleague at York. I'm increasingly thinking that we need some kind of national policy change to confront these issues.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness

How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Letter

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 22d

Thinking of using #ChatGPT for 'help' with assessments? Think again. #university #AI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness

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Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 28d

So, they are going for some kind of holding company model? Two large organisations 'managed' by a distance. I don't know the details, but I'm not sure how this helps anyone. Seems like British Leyland 1970s approach.

Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · Sep 8

Inside the nerve centre of HAL9000?