Category: Blog

I’ve written a lot about AI and education over the last year. I’ve not written so much about AI and learning and I’m going to try to remedy this in the next year. I’ve been writing for the AI Pioneers project in which Pontydysgu is a partner.

Look at a list of the ten tech companies with the highest market valuation as of mid-November. With the exception of the Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC, all are American; no European company even comes close. In an article entitled Why Does U.S. Technology Rule? in his new (free) newsletter, Krugman Wonks Out, renowned economist Paul Krugman examines the reasons for such American domination. Krugman points out America is a big country, “yet our tech giants all come from a small part of that big nation”. Six of the companies on the list are based in Silicon Valley, he says, and […]

As a festive treat for the AI Pioneers network I’ve compiled my Christmas top 5 resources from the project, there’s no rhyme, reason or clever data behind it other than that I happen to like them!   From our Toolkit – Chat2Course I’ve made many online and offline courses and its a days work at a minimum to get the basic structure and objectives hashed out so this is a nice time saver, within 10 minutes I’d got learning objectives for 5 modules and content generated for two lessons before I ran out of tokens. It is based in ChatGTP […]

Every day hundreds of posts are written on social media about AI and education. Every day yet more papers are published about AI and education. Webinars, seminars and conferences about AI and education. Yet nearly all of them are about formal education, education in the classroom. But as Stephen Downes says in a commentary on a blog by Alan Levine we need more on how people actually teach and actually learn. “We get a lot in the literature about how it happens in the classroom. But the classroom is a very specialized environment, designed to deal with the need to foster a common set […]