Finlas Again: Beinn Ruisg & Creag an Leinbh: A walk in the very low clouds yesterday. Strong contrast between the lower ground and the hills, spring has arrived but it is not evenly distributed. some photos and notes: walkmap.
Read: Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson ★★★★☆ 📚
Lots of fun, I chuckled my way through. Somewhat confused by the time travel, alternative paths and possible hallucinations. Isobel is 16 in the 60s. Her mum and dad disappear mysteriously. All the characters are strange.
Had a short walk around Kilpatrick Muir this morning. Heard but didn’t see green woodpeckers. Did spot a couple of peacock butterflies. The first this year for me.
• chaosworks • Enthusiasms •Artemis Everfree •Sebastian De Deyne •RsS iS dEaD LOL
Hi Joe,
Another nice set of links, I particularly liked RsS iS dEaD LOL.
And the quote on Exploring – Enthusiasms:
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
is a good un
This coot seems to be redecorating for spring.
Lorna M. CampbellHow does open education practice sit alongside generative AI? There are some similarities in terms of ethos; GAI repurposes, reuses, and remixes resources, but in a really selfish way.
Every section in Lorna’s post is interesting but this popped right out at me.
As each new wave of technology ripples through society, we need to decide if and how to integrate the technology into our learning environments. That was true with personal computers, then with the internet, and now with generative AI technologies.
I just listened to the generated audio rather than read this.
Really powerful summary between the instructionist and constructionist approaches to AI in education. Resnick is of course the father of scratch, so is firmly on the constructionist side.
There are powerful ideas and examples of the ways AI could support a constructionist approach to learning and the 4Ps projects, passion, peers, and play.
I started to pull out quotes, but it easier to suggest you just read the whole thing.
I worry that inertia and market pressures will push the educational uses of generative AI in this direction.
This would be the worry.
The piece finishes with
The choice is up to us. The choice is more educational and political than technological. What types of learning and education do we want for our children, our schools, and our society? All of us—as teachers, parents, school administrators, designers, developers, researchers, policymakers—need to consider our values and visions for learning and education, and make choices that align with our values and visions. It is up to us.
I do wonder if, in the mainstream, we have much choice. I don’t think that many decisions about educational technology have been very pure, the power of the big companies is massive. We should be thankful that the more open, non-commercial like scratch exists.
Read: The Trees by Percival Everett ★★★★☆📚
Racism, lynching, half detective, half horror. Also laugh out loud funny. What a strange book. Raced through it. The conclusion was a bit abrupt, but I am not sure how it could be finished with complete satisfaction.