Clover Park Technical College has a CFP for its 2024 AI Institute, which examines the innovative and ethical use of AI in higher education.

This event will take place on Fri., Aug. 9th and Sat., Aug., 10th, 2024. We invite educators, researchers, instructional designers, and forward-thinking practitioners to contribute their insights and expertise.

This event is free and virtual for all. It was previously known as the OER Faculty Institute.

CFP form and Registration: https://cptc.libguides.com/TLC/2024-CPTC-AI-Institute

Exciting news! My dad's book is finally out:
Ella Young Remembered: Interviews by James D. Cain in paperback.

This book is being sold to support the work of the Tulsk Productions which has created radio plays for RTE on Ella Young and is currently working on and raising money for a film: https://www.ellayoung.org/about-ella-young

I have more information in this blog post: https://geoffcain.com/blog/fluxus/2024/04/13/ella-young-remembered-interviews-by-james-d-cain/

Opening up #oer24!

I just posted on AI Ethics and Policy to my blog as a reference for some of the work we are doing on campus around AI and for our AI courses. It is not just academic papers but also tools for thinking about how ed tech in general is rolled out. It is important to think about whose voices get heard in these decisions and how we gather them together. If you have a reading or resource around AI, ethics, and policy that you feel is essential, I would love to see it. Thanks!

https://geoffcain.com/blog/a-short-annotated-reading-list-for-ai-ethics-and-policy/

Clover Park Technical College is looking for two instructional designers for project positions. I work as an Instructional Designer at Clover Park and I can tell you it is an excellent place to work!
https://geoffcain.com/blog/instructional-design-positions-at-clover-park/

Playing with voice cloning. I am interested in it for the accessibility, but there are a lot more uses for it. - AI: an "F" for Fake:

https://geoffcain.com/blog/ai-an-f-for-fake/

@Downes I like this a lot. I think this is good work, but to be a true futurist article it needs more monetizable breathless hyperbole - maybe ChatGPT could help with that. 😃

I haven't seen much in the way of education predictions for 2024 except for the all too predictable corporate sales pitches. I think COVID and AI may have something to do with that: https://geoffcain.com/blog/edu-predictions-where-is-my-conveyor-belt-sidewalk/

One of the problems with asking companies "Can that data be connected back to the students themselves?" is that the algorithms that can correlate large, seemingly unrelated data are now so complex that the companies can always say "no" and still mean "yes." Beware "data analytics partners"! #AI #privacy #FERPA

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2023-11-08-how-to-navigate-the-nuances-of-anonymous-and-de-identified-data-in-ai-driven-classrooms

Some of the most intelligent writing on #ethics and #AI are from Abeba Birhane (@abebab) of the Mozilla Foundation. She was interviewed on France24 this morning. Her work is here: https://abebabirhane.com/

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. 
- Sydney J. Harris

@Downes 3/
I am also frustrated as a teacher (not afraid) that removing the work of thinking seems to be the answer (to what I am not sure). The work of reasoning out an argument does not need to be off-loaded.