#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
read: The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson ★★★★☆ 📚
Probably the most horrible character I’ve read about for a while. Ray, old artist with faded reputation, more talented wife & screwed up children. Lots of fun, though Ray didn’t get the complete metaphorical kicking he deserves.
#SilentSunday
Read The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller ★★★★☆ 📚
Set in the beautifully described big freeze of 1962. Two odd couples misunderstanding their partners. Echos of the war, class, everything is changing. The book ends with a tangle of unfinished threads.
the flakes skittered, twisted, seemed briefly to rise rather than fall, then fell decisively, filling the darkness with a whispering that had no clear source, no centre. They shut their eyes. They tasted it. Stone-flavoured, the tips of the sky. It filled them with a great excitement of change.
A couple of new WordLand Links: First Drafting – Doc Searls Weblog & Joho the Blog » Trying out WordLand for blogging the second says:
It’s a web page that clears out all of WordPress’s cruft and gives you an interface that’s so simple that it’s actually enjoyable.
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especially if … Dave Winer, … lets us add tags. I am irrationally committed to tagging
I like tags too.
#silentsunday
Metrological spring evening in Victoria Park; a storm toppled tree still blossoms; the first frog spawn in the small pond; feels like there might be frost tonight.