Category: AI
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Using GPTs in education: four practical examples
Custom GPTs can turn ChatGPT from a general-purpose chatbot into a focused teaching tool for a specific subject. They allow teaching staff to specify the assistant’s role, provide approved subject material, and set clear rules for what students should (and should not) ask it to do. A GPT is a customised version of ChatGPT configured…
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Cory Doctorow: Enshitification: Festival of Dangerous Ideas (review)
I spent last weekend at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at Carriageworks in Sydney, a high-profile collision of writers, thinkers, provocateurs and people who have made a career out of worrying in public. The main festival weekend was 22–23 August, with a line-up that included Peter Singer, Stan Grant and Maria Ressa. I stayed upstairs…
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The AI capability gap is getting bigger!
The tools and methods for using AI in the academic workplace have improved dramatically over the past year or so. What has not improved at the same rate is the capacity to use them with methodological seriousness. We now inhabit a landscape in which AI systems, under human direction and oversight, can help academics assemble…
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Context is king: situated judgement in the age of AI.
A few months ago, on the road out past Lake Eildon, the sky did what Victorian skies do without warning: it dropped seven degrees, the light went flat, and the bitumen turned that shade of dark that tells you, before you consciously register it, that the surface is about to change. No app had warned…
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The Future of the Essay in the Age of AI: A Practical Guide
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has fundamentally disrupted one of higher education’s most enduring pedagogical tools: the essay. For centuries, the essay has served as both a means of learning and a method of assessment, asking students to demonstrate research skills, critical thinking, argument construction, and disciplinary knowledge through extended written work. The arrival of tools…
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Bridging the Two-Lane approach and the AI Assessment Scale: A comprehensive framework for higher education
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed how we approach assessment in higher education. While various frameworks have been proposed to address these challenges, two complementary approaches—the two-lane approach and the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS)—offer a potent combination when used together. This blog post examines how these frameworks can work in synergy to…