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Jim Lerman
from Education 2.0 & 3.0
October 5, 2023 1:26 PM
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Discover the power of AI in education! Explore practical examples and AI tools to design equitable, student-centered learning experiences.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
September 18, 2023 10:30 AM
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"Available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms, the free audiobooks use neural text-to-speech technology to read to you in a human-sounding voice ..."
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
August 29, 2023 4:07 PM
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Regular journal writing develops fluency. Students learn to rapidly pour their ideas onto the page. Because they are not rigorously graded, kids can shut off the critical parts of their brains and awaken their imaginations—to reflect, dream, and write!
Journal writing also helps students deepen their thinking. They work through problems and discover solutions. They generate many ideas that they can further explore in formal writing assignments.
Best of all, regular journaling helps students think of themselves as writers. Instead of saying, "I'm a terrible writer," students say, "I am a writer," or even, "I'm a great writer!" Lots of resources in this article - JL
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
July 31, 2023 10:09 AM
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Cultural feedback styles Students yearn for constructive feedback. However, some feedback can be discouraging if not well received by the students. There is individual variation in how students are used to getting feedback and
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from :: The 4th Era ::
July 25, 2023 3:46 PM
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What we can say with certainty is that ChatGPT is a reliable writing assistant, provided you use it in the right way. If you have to put words in order as part of your job, here's how ChatGPT might be able to take your writing to the next level—at least until it replaces you, anyway.
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Jim Lerman
from Cultivating Creativity
July 21, 2023 11:11 AM
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Increasingly powerful AI systems are being released at an increasingly rapid pace. This week saw the debut of Claude 2, likely the second most capable AI system available to the public. The week before, Open AI released Code Interpreter, the most sophisticated mode of AI yet available. The week before that, some AIs got the ability to see images.
And yet not a single AI lab seems to have provided any user documentation. Instead, the only user guides out there appear to be Twitter influencer threads. Documentation-by-rumor is a weird choice for organizations claiming to be concerned about proper use of their technologies, but here we are.
I can’t claim that this is going to be a complete user guide, but it will serve as a bit of orientation to the current state of AI. I have been putting together a Getting Started Guide to AI for my students (and interested readers) every few months, and each time, it requires major modifications. The last couple of months have been particularly insane.
This guide is opinionated, based on my experience, and focused on how to pick the right tool to do things. I have written separately about the kinds of tasks you may want AI to do, which might be useful to read first.
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Jim Lerman
from Cultivating Creativity
April 6, 2023 2:38 PM
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To work through the complexities of argumentation, break down the task into a series of manageable steps. This creates scaffolds for your students' writing and skill development.
Utilize the 7 C's for Building a Rock-Solid Argument infographic to help students visualize a process for writing compelling arguments. Then lead students through the steps as they develop their own argumentative pieces. Jim Lerman's insight: Nicely put together, numerous useful resources and suggestions.
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Jim Lerman
March 19, 2023 12:35 AM
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Seven Narratively writers lift the curtain on what measures they take to get their subjects to trust them, from coming prepared to being fully present to really listening.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
March 10, 2023 11:22 AM
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Artificial intelligence seems to be the latest buzzword, and ChatGPT has been in the news as increasing numbers of people are learning about the platform and exploring its benefits. If you struggle to put your thoughts together, the idea of having a platform to create a cohesive document sounds like a godsend.
If you’re a skeptic, you may wonder how well the platform works and if there are any drawbacks to using artificial intelligence to help you with your job search. The platform may save you time, but you may want to add your touch to any documents generated to stand out.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
February 22, 2023 11:01 PM
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In a previous blog post and corresponding podcast, I said, “if teachers design student-centered learning experiences that allow students to write with support in class, ChatGPT won’t be nearly as disruptive as some articles claim.” In the two months since I published that post, I’ve had the opportunity to play with ChatGPT, exploring how teachers across subject areas can leverage AI technology to enhance the writing process and ease the burden on teachers (always my goal!). Below are some ideas for leveraging this AI technology to lessen a teacher’s workload and engage students more completely in the writing process.
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Jim Lerman
from Creative teaching and learning
February 19, 2023 11:53 AM
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"ChatGPT might be the first thing you think of when you read AI today, but there have been plenty of other AI tools before it. One such tool is Lumen5. Lumen5 is a tool that will produce a video for you based upon your written work ..."
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“Video killed the radio star” was MTV’s first music video when the network launched in 1981 sending deejays into panic mode. Yet, in 2023, MTV has reinvented itself multiple times, and radio still has its place even among streaming services. So when the ChatGPT launched, followed by the onslaught of “The Death of High School English” articles, I had no doubt teachers would adjust and move forward. My initial thoughts were less centered on “catching” students using it but rather on figuring out how to incorporate CHATGPT into teaching and learning.
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Jim Lerman
from Educational Technology News
February 11, 2023 1:58 PM
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ChatGPT has sparked many people’s imaginations and fears. But what is it, really? It’s an example of a “large language model”—a computer program trained to recognize patterns in everyday writing and replicate them.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
October 5, 2023 11:23 AM
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Ah, writing rubrics. . . . Do they bring a smile to your face, or a frown? Probably the latter since rubrics come out when there's a stack of papers to be graded. Nice discussion of rubrics. Well worth reading. -JL
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
September 12, 2023 1:12 PM
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The writing workshop instructional approach creates a writing community in your classroom. Follow these simple steps to set up a writing workshop:
Step 1: Plan your writing workshop.
In a writing workshop, a typical 50-minute class has four stages:
Minilesson: Spend about 10 minutes introducing a new writing concept to the class and asking students to apply it. You can select from many free minilessons on the Thoughtful Learning website or use the many writing strategies in a writing handbook.
Status of the Class: Spend about 5 minutes tracking the work each student will do that day.
Individual Work: Provide students with 30 minutes to work on their projects. Meanwhile, you can conference with individual writers or small groups.
Whole-Class Sharing: Leave about 5 minutes at the end of class for students to share portions of their work.
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
August 2, 2023 1:01 PM
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ChatGPT generates remarkably human-like write-ups but lacks something important: a unique personal voice. While ChatGPT can compose thoughtful prose on any topic, the phrasing often rings hollow. To make ChatGPT truly your writing companion, you need to train it to write with your style, pacing, word choices, and tone.
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Jim Lerman
from Education 2.0 & 3.0
July 27, 2023 3:26 PM
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AI-driven tools may signal the integration of technology into learning in profound ways; however, the long trajectory of edtech has not yet changed th
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Jim Lerman
July 21, 2023 9:59 PM
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"Since I started teaching, I have observed and preached the benefits of using pictures in the classroom. They are immediate; they stimulate the imagination and promote creativity. Children who often ‘sit back’ are able and willing to contribute. They learn that their opinions matter. "As the blog has grown, teachers have let me know how they are using it in the classroom. Images and questions can be used to stimulate discussion and develop vocabulary, as a prompt for creative writing, a reading comprehension activity (with a mix of literal, inference, deduction and prediction questions), or as a starting point for a wider curriculum lesson. Some teachers have set an image and questions for homework, while others have organised whole-school writing competitions based on a picture. "Once Upon A Picture is, unashamedly, a passion project. I spend a lot of time looking at illustrations, digital art and animation. I have ‘pinned’ thousands of pictures and spent hours searching for writing prompts. I have an unhealthy love of picture books. It was a natural step to start a blog sharing the best. "All of the work shared here is done so with the permission of the artist. It’s important that children appreciate the person behind the work, and many artists enjoy hearing children’s responses to their creations." Jim's insight: This is a fabulous collection of images and prompt questions for writing, discussion, and thinking among students (and others) from about the age of 8 up to early teens (my estimate). Thanks to ashy Tohsaku
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Jim Lerman
from Cultivating Creativity
April 21, 2023 9:29 PM
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Most of us use ChatGPT wrong.
We don’t include examples in our prompts.
We ignore that we can control ChatGPT’s behavior with roles.
We let ChatGPT guess stuff instead of providing it with some information.
This happens because we mostly use standard prompts that might help us get the job done once, but not all the time.
We need to learn how to create high-quality prompts to get better results. We need to learn prompt engineering! And, in this guide, we’ll learn 4 techniques used in prompt engineering.
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Jim Lerman
March 19, 2023 12:38 AM
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Finding a profile subject can come from an obvious place — perhaps your next-door neighbor or someone related to you is doing something extremely unexpected and extraordinary. Or maybe it’s much more random, someone from afar who sparks your interest on a whim or an incidental tip from a friend. No matter, the discovery is often a huge part of the fun, but it can also be mysterious, sometimes even to ourselves.
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Jim Lerman
March 16, 2023 6:53 PM
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Good writing comes to life through a series of steps: prewriting, writing, revising, editing, and publishing. By teaching this process, you make writing more manageable for your students.
But even after you introduce the steps, some students may still view their own writing as a straightforward act that must be completed in one sitting.
You can dispel this misconception by having students map out their own unique writing method.
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Jim Lerman
February 28, 2023 5:06 PM
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Workers across different industries are using ChatGPT, a bot released by OpenAI in November 2022, to make their jobs easier.
The AI tool can provide real estate advice, help you start a business, and even prepare you for a salary negotiation.
Twenty-seven-year-old freelance financial writer Tony Dong told Insider that he's using it to get more out of his work days.
"ChatGPT has been an amazing virtual assistant," said the Vancouver-based writer, who brought in 149,000 Canadian dollars in 2022, according to documents viewed by Insider — and he estimates that he worked just 30 hours per week. (His earnings convert to about $115,000 using the Bank of Canada's average 2022 exchange rate for USD, which was 1.30). Jim Lerman's insight: A number of very good ideas in this concise article. Well worth reading by everyone.
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
February 20, 2023 12:26 PM
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In this two-part series, we will explore best practices for writing at every stage in the instructional design process. Every stage of the instructional design process involves writing.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
February 15, 2023 4:12 PM
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This week, we turn our attention to a writing form that has an unmistakable link to reading—the summary.
Summarizing is a foundational writing skill that also improves reading comprehension. Students need to summarize well to develop more advanced writing, from research papers to literary analyses to meeting minutes.
Even so, summary skills do not come easily. How many times have you received a summary that misses the point, offers too many (or too few) details, or begins with “It was all about how . . .”?
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
February 12, 2023 2:36 PM
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AI Text Classifier is a new tool from Open AI, the makers of ChatGPT, that will detect whether or not a passage of text has been written with ChatGPT and similar AI writing tools. To use AI Text Classifier you do need to have registered for a free account on Open AI. Once you have an account you can use AI Text Classifier. To use AI Text Classifier you simply have to paste a block of writing (at least 1,000 characters, roughly 175 words) into the text field and click the submit button. AI Text Classifier will then rank the writing as very unlikely, unlikely, unclear if it is, possibly, or likely written by AI. For the record, AI Text Classifier classified my article about detecting writing created by AI as very unlikely to have been written by AI.
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