Just like automatic braking, do we hand off our controls to the latest shiny new technology? Are we working for the AI, in the hope that it will work for us? As a teacher, I try to stay plugged into what the industry expects of us in education. I’ve heard…

Software is unapologetically biased. That includes ChatGPT, which I’ve been testing for the past two months. The reality is that software merely reflects the biases of us humans. We could throw up our hands and learn to live with it. Or we can scrutinize what it regurgitates. …

War journals were once accessible only after the fact. I’m thinking of the work of Anne Frank or Malala Yousafzai. Today, the diarists, aka the bloggers — even videographers — are para journalists with more access to the real conflict or the emotional anguish than the dyed-in-wool journalists. So let’s…

Dear Sydney, I am not sure if this is even your name, but I heard you say that Chat GPT is actually you, Sydney. I’ve been hearing a lot about how your parents are so proud of the fact that you are all grown up now, and talking to journalists…

I asked AI to write a Volkswagen ad, and a poem in the style of Maya Angelou. It got a D. Listening to teachers discuss ChatGPT, I’m tempted to tell educators to take chill pill. …

A huge mismatch between what it promised to be, and what AI delivers. There’s Human Intelligence, and Artificial kind. I wasn’t taken up by the recent bluster about AI which in 2022 arrived all dressed up — wearing flip flops. I did give it a try, however. Just like I…

Have to admit, I tend to veer on the side of skepticism when it comes to what gets shared by my networks. To the point that I’ve disdain -to be honest, I ignore!— those memes and videos that come with the label ‘shared many times.’ I put it down to…

What could Steve Jobs, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, and voting have in common? You’d be surprised! Steve Niemeyer, a math teacher, got me down this path when he conducted an impromptu ‘experiment’ at a morning assembly at my school. So much so, I asked him to be a guest…

Where do these words come from? Where are they taking us? I may sound like a panjandrum (a word that rear-ended me the other day) because I’m not a huge fan of neologisms. Some of these recent words seem to be arriving by the truckload. It’s one thing to say…