Month: September 2025

There has always been an argument that although technology my destroy jobs, at the same time it creates new employment opportunities. So far there is little. evidence that Generative AI is creating new jobs, part from for a limited group of expert programmers and data scientist. But now NBC news has revealed a new source of work – to fix what Artificial Intelligence gets wrong. In an article entitled “Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy” they report how as companies struggle to figure out their approach to AI, recent data provided from freelance job platforms […]

In the late 1990s there was an upsurge of interest in the education community around research into knowledge development. Perhaps stimulated by political preoccupations around the emergence of the ‘knowledge society’ discussions focused on how knowledge was developed and how such knowledge development could be stimulated and supported. Although recently innovation has tended to be seen as dependent on individual invention, in the 19902 research it was more generally seen as a social process. Nonaka & Takeuchi (1995) developed the SECI model which describes four knowledge creation processes within organizations, involving the interplay of tacit and explicit knowledge. SECI includes […]

I’m just back from been having a couple of weeks holiday from the blog, escaping from Spanish heatwaves half way up a mountain in Galicia. But the time has come to get back to the keyboard. And I’ve quite a pile of posts waiting to be written Lets start with assessment. Assessment has not caused such a stir in vocational education and training as in school and higher education, mainly I guess because the general move towards competence and practice based assessment is less vulnerable to the likes of ChatGPT. But that doesn’t mean that vocational education and training policy […]

Watching this interview with Shafika Isaacs, Chief of Section for Technology and AI in Education at UNESCO earlier and one quote really stood out for me.

AI is fundamentally designed as an unethical ecosystem.

Which means it is imperative for …