Ditch summit session 3
So attended my first session at the 2024 Ditch summit, video discussion on Cautious Steps Toward AI Implementation in Education with Ken Shelton and Dee Lanier.
The videos of the sessions will be up until the 10th January
Excellent conversation and some really valid points raised about bias, and how we define for example cheating and ways we can address this by reframing how we do approach tasks, such as reframe cheating as potentially compromising learning.
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Ditch summit session 2
So attended my first session at the 2024 Ditch summit, video discussion on How to ACE Student AI Literacy in Schools with Holly Clark.
The videos of the sessions will be up until the 10th January.
Once you register you have access to the pre recoded sessions, This session was a discussion between Matt Miller (host) and Holly Clark
Some excellent points raised, including how to critique information generated, ideas on how to differentiate if an image is AI generated, The signs an article may be AI generated. Being able to evaluate if an article is Ai generated is also important when undertaking research for essays or reading the news for example.
The above skills are taught by school anyway when it comes to research skills, so we are applying and adapting critical thinking skills to evaluating AI.
As this is evolving technology, it was also suggested the learning journey is shared by the teachers and students ( I would guess teaching assistants should really be part of this process too ). However, teachers need to understand AI so that they can provide students with a safe environment to explore AI, the possibilities and risks associated with AI.
I found the discussion very useful and will try and share some of my notes with teachers if I can.
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Ditch summit session 1
So attended my first session at the 2024 Ditch summit, video discussion on Inquiry based learning with Trevor Mackenzie. This was fascinating and looked at how we can get students to ask questions and develop curiosity as part of their learning, and how this approach can be adapted across different age groups. The videos of the sessions will be up until the 10th January.
Once you register you have access to the pre recoded sessions, This session was a discussion between Matt Miller (host) and Trevor Mackenzie.
This format is great, as it seems to avoid many of the issues with live sessions which can be hampered with technical issues, that have a real knock effect post conferences if there is no access to the material presented.
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International coalition calls for action against surveillance-based advertising
Interesting article, this fightback has now started, there is hopefully no going back and we will see an end to all this tracking, advertising and other unwanted nonsense.
**Groups in Europe and U.S. ask for action to end practices that threaten citizens’ rights. **
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Every day, consumers are exposed to extensive commercial surveillance online. This leads to manipulation, fraud, discrimination and privacy violations. Information about what we like, our purchases, mental and physical health, sexual orientation, location and political views are collected, combined and used under the guise of targeting advertising.
You can read the full article at [1]. I have also included a link to a Discourse thread as well as a link to the Data Detox kit.
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1 Article
2. Discourse Discussion
3. Data Detox Kit
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#YearOfTheFediverse,,Report,#Threats,#Consumers,#Surveillance,
#advertising,#Privacy,#Adverts,#Profit,#Digital,#Rights
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Data Detox
This is a really useful website, with tools and advice on how to stay safe.
Everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you.
#privacy,#security,#wellbeing,#digital,#internet
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LibreOffice Learning Resources
As digital skills are an essential part of everyday life. I have created, a new blog, to host information to help people out tasks using LibreOffice.
So far this is blog has covered just the Writer component. This may be extended later, as I have some videos for the Calc Spreadsheet.
The new blog can be found here.
#Digital,#Skills,#LibreOffice,#Writer,#Basic,#Tutorial,
#Text,Video,#MixedMedia,#Learning,#Development
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Basic IT course update 8
So further to my previous update on the Level 1 Digital skills course. The certificate for this has arrived.
This has now been scanned in and uploaded to my new LinkedIn profile
#education,#courses,#digital,#skills,#level1
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Collaboration with Overleaf
I attended the Overleaf Effective Collaboration webinar on Wednesday 20th May. This proved, once again to be very informative, useful and complements the other webinars nicely.
This webinar, specifically covered the features available to the different users of the system, the main difference with the free accounts includes the number of user who can collaborate and version history tracking.
I recently came across an excellent Overleaf curated article / report from 2017 on The Connected Culture of Collaboration Report
The document (pdf) can be downloaded free from the website and there is a citation guide too, if this is needed for your own articles or papers.
The webinar will be available on demand in due course.
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#LaTeX, #overleaf, #collaboration, #report, #digital,
#science,#writing,#publishing
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