Author: Graham Attwell

My colleague George Bekiaridis drew my attention to a post by Cristobal Cobo on Linkedin. Cristobal was commenting on a new report by Turintin – Crossroads, navigating the intersection of AI in Education – who have surveyed 3,500 higher-education stakeholders—including administrators, educators and students—across Australia, India, Mexico, New Zealand, the UK/Ireland and the US in August 2024 to assess AI’s role in teaching and learning. Turintin are the controversial company who make and market plagiarism checking applications especially to higher education providers. Anyway the report sounded interesting so I tried to download a copy. Turintin asked for a form to […]

When we set up the AI Pioneers community, three years ago. there was a spreading panic in higher education about the impact of Generative AI. The majority of assessment was being organised through written essays and AI chatbots like ChatGPT were very good at quickly writing reasonably erudite essays. What was worse was that the detection applications traditional ed tech providers rushed to the market didn’t work, returning both false negatives and false positives. Over time, the panic has subsided, with universities developing new (and sometimes innovative) approaches to assessment. Indeed there has been a general acknowledgement that assessment needed […]

Maria Perifanou has announced the Call for Papers for a Special Issue in the Educational Technology Research and Development (ETRD) Journal on Generative AI and the Future of K–12 Education.The issut aims to advance research, theory, and practice on the responsible, sustainable, and ethical use of GenAI in K-12 education, promoting the significance of human agency within GenAI implementations. It invites contributions that explore and discuss the ethical equity and policy dimensions of GenAI adoption in K-12 educational contexts. Submissions may include theoretical reviews discussing frameworks, theoretical and conceptual analyses, ethical implications, empirical studies, and critical reviews. Collectively, these contributions […]

I am very happy to see the launch of the Digital Literacies Network, designed to Digital Literacies Network designed to empower Individuals and Communities and launched by my long time friend Cristina Costa, Associate Professor at Durham University in the UK and her colleague Michaela Oliver. The Digital Literacies Network, they say, “is dedicated to empowering digital citizens through collaborative learning and creative practice in digital culture. We believe that digital literacy is not just about technical skills, but about cultural knowledge, identity, voice, and participation in a diverse, interconnected world. We strive to: • Co-produce knowledge: working with young […]

Its a shorter article this week as I am off to Lueven in Belgium for the kick off meeting of a new project for schools in Europe, AI Ready. I’ll report on that meeting next week. But as I write, the news is buzzing rumours about a market correction, or put more vividly a burst bubble, in the value of AI companies. Its been some time coming. Market prices of companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic and of course Nvidia have soared in recent months. Vast sums have been promised for developing the AI infrastructure with limited. justification. Indeed much of […]

Gloria Mendoza / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ollowing on from my last post around co-design, there seems to be an increasing number of experiments with educational institutions developing their own applications, rather than being totally dependent on commercial ed tech providers. One area attracting attention is assessment where teachers and trainers in vocational education are used to working with colleagues, especially from examining bodies, in designing assessment rubrics and processes. Last year, the UK Jisc organisation launched a pilot to explore how AI could help reduce workload around marking and feedback. That work continues this year, they say, with the KEATH, […]