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Teachers to get more trustworthy AI tech as generative tools learn from new bank of lesson plans and curriculums, helping them mark homework and save time
Gov.UK, 2024/08/28

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According to the U.K. Department for Education announcement, "will pool government documents including curriculum guidance, lesson plans and anonymised pupil assessments which will then be used by AI companies to train their tools so they generate accurate, high-quality content, like tailored, creative lesson plans and workbooks, that can be reliably used in schools." Archive version of the announcement, just in case. Not surprisingly, opponents have already surfaced. "We at Defend Digital Me are yet to see any products that claim to use AI that offer independent evidence of improved learning outcomes," they write. Heh - they should be reading OLDaily! Via Doug Levin.

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SMARTIE
Soroush Sabbaghan, University of Calgary, 2024/08/28

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AI is coming to educators. Here's SMARTIE: "It's specially developed to assist university-level educators in creating comprehensive and inclusive course outlines. This flexible tool allows educators to generate various course components such as descriptions, learning outcomes, corresponding EDIA-aware (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility) learning activities, and even procure recommendations for rubric redesigns." It was created in Streamlit, an app that "turns data scripts into shareable web apps in minutes."

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Gemini Chat App
Simon Willison, Simon Willison's Weblog, 2024/08/28

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Simon Willison took ten minutes yesterday and built a chat app. "Building this with Claude 3.5 Sonnet took literally ten minutes from start to finish - you can see that from the timestamps in the conversation. Here's the deployed app and the finished code." I don't want to beat this drum over and over, but the increased productivity AI can provide, at least in some domains, is astonishing.

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codi.link
Miguel Ángel Durán, 2024/08/28

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This note is mostly for myself. codi.link is a live editor for HTML, CSS and JS. "Edit your code in real-time, and see the result instantly." What I like is that it allows you to search for dependencies in NPM and adds the relevant link to the library on a CDN. It also includes a terminal and a live view. It's like CodePen, only cleaner. I'll be using it in the near future. Via D'Arcy Norman. Source.

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Hello, you're here because you compared AI image editing to Photoshop
Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 2024/08/28

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The gist of this article is that editing images in AI is not at all like editing images in Photoshop because in order to do the latter you have to be able to buy expensive software and to have learned a variety of skills. Sure, Photoshop manipulation was bad, but "generative AI image editing not only amplifies these problems by further lowering barriers - it sometimes does so with no explicit direction." To me, this is an argument that only rich and well-educated people (and corporations) should be allowed to manipulate photos. The problem (at least for these elites) is that people don't trust these images any more. My take is that they never should have trusted them in the first place. Via Michelle Manafy. Image: Dove.

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