Kids bug hunting in school. Two butterflies, the first of the year. A peacock and a small tortoiseshell circling each other.
As my full time teaching moves towards the end. I wonder what other job allows you to: organise an art exhibit; video conference with someone from NASA; go for walks in the woods; write poems; learn about AI; play with paint, numbers, cardboard & a whole lot more. Half full I’d say.
I’d love a way of finding podcasts that were 20 minutes or less long.
Irresponsible AI companies are already imposing huge loads on Wikimedia infrastructure, which is costly both from a pure bandwidth perspective, but also because it requires dedicated engineers to maintain and improve systems to handle the massive automated traffic. And AI companies that do not attribute their responses or otherwise provide any pointers back to Wikipedia prevent users from knowing where that material came from, and do not encourage those users to go visit Wikipedia, where they might then sign up as an editor, or donate after seeing a request for support. (This is most AI companies, by the way. Many AI “visionaries” seem perfectly content to promise that artificial superintelligence is just around the corner, but claim that attribution is somehow a permanently unsolvable problem.)
A good post to read or listen to at the beginning of Scottish AI in Schools week . The article does not want the stable door closed.
Likes WordLand v0.51 – daveverse.
excerpts & featured images.
Walking up the Kelvin this afternoon, past where the Wyndford High Rise flats were demolished earlier in the day. Everything was covered in dust, almost like a mono chrome filter.
#SilentSunday
Some AI Links & Things to Think About
Bookmarked for future reading. AI in education is becoming increasingly confusing.
- Critical Thinking, Not AI, is Essential for Curriculum – Another Think Coming
- Op-ed: ChatGPT — The ‘write’ tool for classroom success – The Huntington News
- Just seek to understand, and remember we understand a lot by doing | Thought Shrapnel
Education Scotland are running a week #ScotAI25: Scottish AI in Schools 2025 with live lessons for pupils & some cpd for staff. I might try to make some of those.
- This week I’ve used:
ChatGPT to make some questions up about a passage of text for an individual in my class; Write an example text about levers; create a formula for a number spreadsheet and create a regular expression. - Claude to make a fractions matching game and a trivia quiz.
- I am occasionally using lovable.dev to play around making an alternative way of posting to WordPress.
I might have used ChatGPT a couple more times in school. Although it is accessible the login options didn’t seem to be so I’ve no history to check.
Quite a few teachers I know use it in some of these ways in a, like me, fairly causal way. This is a lot easier than thinking about any ethical and moral implication.
It is beginning to sound like spring.
Fusion of reggae with traditional folk. Album: ▶︎ Perpetual Musket | Elijah Minnelli | Breadminster County Council