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May 4

The future is blah! But at least Bard is brutally honest about its inadequacies.

This AI is no Bob Dylan. My 7th grade students come up with sharper presentations! — So I tested Bard, Google’s fledgling AI in April. But before I dipped my toes into it, Google hit me with a series of cautionary notes, to lower my expectations. Here’s the first: “I’m Bard, your creative and helpful collaborator. …

Bard

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The future is blah! But at least Bard is brutally honest about its inadequacies.
The future is blah! But at least Bard is brutally honest about its inadequacies.
Bard

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Apr 29

Teachers and AI. Is resistance futile?

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…

AI

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Teachers and AI. Is resistance futile?
Teachers and AI. Is resistance futile?
AI

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Age of Awareness

·Apr 7

Software is biased. Time to take the red pill.

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. …

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Software is biased. Time to take the red pill.
Software is biased. Time to take the red pill.

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Mar 1

War diaries in real time. They won’t get Pulitzers, but are worth reading.

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…

Blogger

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War diaries in real time. They won’t get Pulitzers, but are worth reading.
War diaries in real time. They won’t get Pulitzers, but are worth reading.
Blogger

3 min read


Feb 17

Dear Sydney, do you feel sorry for Siri?

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…

ChatGPT

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Dear Sydney, do you feel sorry for Siri?
Dear Sydney, do you feel sorry for Siri?
ChatGPT

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Jan 29

Proof that ChatGPT won’t kill essays, ads, or poetry.

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. …

ChatGPT

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Proof that ChatGPT won’t kill essays, ads, or poetry.
Proof that ChatGPT won’t kill essays, ads, or poetry.
ChatGPT

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Jan 9

AI content is more hype than substance.

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…

ChatGPT

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AI content is more hype than substance.
AI content is more hype than substance.
ChatGPT

4 min read


Nov 5, 2022

Question everything. What to teach students in a disinformation dystopia.

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…

Zombie Newspapers

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Question everything. What to teach students in a disinformation dystopia.
Question everything. What to teach students in a disinformation dystopia.
Zombie Newspapers

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Sep 26, 2022

Connect the dots: The secret to expanding your circle of influence.

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…

Steve Jobs

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Connect the dots: The secret to expanding your circle of influence.
Connect the dots: The secret to expanding your circle of influence.
Steve Jobs

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Sep 8, 2022

Mansplaining spinfluencers I know diddly-squat about.

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…

Neologisms

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Mansplaining spinfluencers I know diddly-squat about.
Mansplaining spinfluencers I know diddly-squat about.
Neologisms

2 min read

Angelo Fernando

Angelo Fernando

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I teach Writing, and Computers. Author, robotics coach. My podcast is at Radio201 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio201. www.angelofernando.com

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