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Yoodli: Leveraging AI in Nursing Education. An Interview with Maureen Baker and Theresa Raphael-Grimm - AACE
Stefanie Panke, AACE, 2023/05/10

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In this article, "Maureen Baker from UNC School of Nursing and Theresa Raphael-Grimm from UNC Schools of Nursing and Medicine talk about their experience with the AI platform yoodli." An example: "A goal was also to shift students' role from a social interaction to a professional interaction and illuminate areas to improve. For example, when a student interviewed a peer and the peer discussed having a relative who was cared for by a nurse- the social interaction would say 'Really? Me too!' whereas the professional response would be 'Tell me more about that'."

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AI and I: The Age of Artificial Creativity
Editorial Team, Ness Labs, 2023/05/10

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This is from the fall but came up at the meeting I'm attending today in an otherwise unremarkable talk about 'doing innovation the Amazon way'. Readers will be most interested, I think, in the map with more than 180 generative AI tools. "The range of creative tasks AI applications can perform has widely expanded in recent years, so the map also includes an additional category (scientific creativity) and a catchall category for all the weird and original ways generative models are used to augment human creativity."

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The Responsible Development of AI Agenda Needs to Include Consciousness Research
Lenore Blum, et al., AMCS, 2023/05/10

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This is an open letter from the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science intended as "a wakeup call for the tech sector, the scientific community and society in general to take seriously the need to accelerate research in the field of consciousness science." Specifically, "it is vital for the wider public, societal institutions and governing bodies to know whether and how AI systems can become conscious, to understand the implications thereof, and to effectively address the ethical, safety, and societal ramifications." I offer my own thoughts on consciousness here. Via Daily Nous. Image: LiveScience.

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Curriculimb - Learnlets
Clark Quinn, Learnlets, 2023/05/10

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"I'm stuck on a curriculimb," says Clark Quinn. "The issue is how to develop a curriculum. I know in higher ed (I was there once) it tends to be a process of figuring out what content they need, and distributing across courses. It's probably more art than science..." But, "one of the things I was pondering in the dark of the night was how AI could help." My first thought (expressed here) was to wonder why would would develop a course, if you had all the capabilities of AI. Surely we can do better.

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How can undergraduate degrees meet the demands of the workforce?
Rey Rosales, University Affairs, 2023/05/10

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So there's a nugget of truth in this post. "What does an educational leader do to achieve alignment between what higher education produces and what the job market wants?" asks Rey Rosales. "The answer lies in creating an educational environment that is a microcosm of the real world." I learned as much, maybe more, from working at the student newspaper at university as I did from my actual classes. But it was never about trying to fit the 'job market'. Image: ASCD.

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