https://www.adweek.com/agencies/what-happened-to-chicago-portfolio-school-students-and-staff-want-to-know/ He could have worked from home obviously but heh, the chance to get out of this town… Seeing as the sponsor was paying for life in The Smoke… His northern tones and dropped ‘aitches were gold. As an Insight Intern his job was to feed thick data into the systems and to “speculate from … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights It was graduation day. The chance to meet the students and their families, watching them turn for a moment from the adults who’d been in class to someone’s son or daughter, uncomfortably introducing “my parents”. They recognised their teacher in the crowd. Stopped for a selfie. Maybe he had made a difference, His particular … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/08/teach-children-survive-ai There were nested schedules. On the route to exams and tests, there were timetables for each term, each week, each lesson, each topic. Separate. Her teacher was on rails, monitored just like she was. Timed, Tested. As robotic as her approved assistant in the desk screen. Both programmed to deliver, achieve. The teacher delivered … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/ai-likely-to-spell-end-of-traditional-school-classroom-leading-expert-says You always remember one teacher. They’re not the one the school puts on its website, the one with the best exam results, the one who got you into Cambridge. No, the one you remember is the one with a real character, something different. The one you remember is the one you built a relationship … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/04/mobile-phones-other-devices-to-be-banned-from-dutch-classrooms The building was old. Nestled in the middle of an estate of 1960s towerblocks, the Victorian facade was like a classical football stadium still trying to function in narrow city streets long after the nature of its work had changed. The playground was still bleak. The smart floor was even the same colour as … [Read more…]
https://newatlas.com/technology/self-powering-patch-muscle-movement/ You get it from both sides. Teachers are always on your back: “tuck your shirt in… put your blazer on!” And then when they go full a full inspection, they have a go about my uniform not being right. And then there’s the other kids. I try to ignore it but I feel like … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/sol-reader/ It was like a scene from Brideshead Revisited or Educating Rita. Students were sitting on the biolawns under the latest tree sculptures. Since the library had been repurposed, this was where the students chose to study. Some students sat alone absorbed in a novel. A few searched through textbooks. In one corner a group … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/34de1ae6-fdde-43e3-a39a-50e30b8b97a1 It was never going to be sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. That’s undergrad… or so I was led to believe when I took my loans out.No, this is business. Serious. Investment. Lessons lack a little humanity perhaps 🙂 but you can’t fault the depth and up-to-date quality of the information. Then there’s the … [Read more…]
https://www.vipshek.com/blog/gpt-learning He pulled the blanket over his head and the screen lit up his den. He knew his parents wouldn’t tell him to go to sleep. He was learning after all. The Primer offered him this week’s choices. Each cover, he knew was just the start. A rabbit hole: an idea from a journey the … [Read more…]
https://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2023/05/more-signs-of-the-crisis-in-creativity-but-does-anyone-really-want-to-do-something-about-it She’d always been… weird. When she’d played as a kid, her Sylvanian families’ adventures had been, well unconventional. Her teacher had said her projects were “distinctive”. As a teen her social media accounts had fewer followers but those who did find her rarely left. She liked being weird. Different. Creative. Then she went to … [Read more…]