Ursula Le Guin once said ‘We all can learn. That’s the neat thing about technologies. They’re what we can learn to do‘. Last year more than 5000 people at University of Edinburgh showed up to learn new digital skills. 5210 to be exact. We ran more workshop events than ever before: 604, and we reduced …
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2024 – Podcasts I’m listening to
Aside from the Blog or Die crew, others have been blogging their podcast listens including Doug Belshaw, Bryan Alexander, Laura Hilliger, Alan Levine, James Ravenscroft, and John Johnston. I first started listening to podcasts, and audiobooks, when I began my (short lived) teaching career. I taught in rural schools in the prairies and found myself…
achievements using AI
As you know, in December each year we do a round up of achievements over the last six months. Here’s a summary of the LTW achievements and initiatives from winter 2024, condensed into ten ‘lively’ bullet points by ELM AI: Edtech Ecosystem Expansion: Launched a new short courses platform, successfully integrating it into our existing edtech …
How to Use Digital Learning – Part I
This past June I had the priviledge of having work shared with the world alongside so many amazing contributors in the edited book How to use digital learning with confidence and creativity. I’ve been slowly making my way through it, reading it start to finish, even though the design and intent of the book is that you…
problems with lecture recordings?
People said our lecture recording wasn’t working properly. So we checked a thousand recordings. This is what we found: (Numbers given are out of one thousand and there is a percentage summary table at the end.) Empty room or blank recording. 98 instances where the room was booked and a recording scheduled, but no lecture …
Essentials of Digital Literacies Over AI Literacies
Found this piece about Dimensions of AI Literacies via the Bionic Teaching Weekly Web Harvest. I agree with Tom’s sentiment here. The plurality of unnecessary “literacies” has only gotten worse in the previous two years as people and organizations attempt to lay claim to the field. No new literacy, especially if it’s an “AI Literacy” framework is…
About being wrong…
I was, not secretly, hoping for another book from Martin Weller, but it looks like his latest series might have concluded. I for sure shared being wrong about Things I was wrong about pt2: The Death of the VLE, while the others I either didn’t have expertise in or was in a different phase of my…
Just because you’re on their side, it doesn’t mean they’re on your side
Sometimes you have a thought of feeling you can’t quite articulate and then you run into a piece that really nails it. That’s the case this time, from Cory Doctorow’s pluralistic. Over the past couple of months in particular I have heard more and more critiques of GenAI, across the board from the tools, to…
Wow Us with your Simulacrum
Similar to Alan, as recently noted over on the cogdogblog, I’ve seen an uptick in people trying out a new tool, NotebookLLM to generate podcasts from other documents (docs, books, lists, etc.). I’d never heard of NotebookLLM before this, but am a daily podcast listener and even support a few. I listen to audiobooks regularly,…
Unpopular Position post no 179
Rick Jabos writes on LinkedIn, Here here. I’ve written about this story before, but it’s been one I can reliably reach back to about the work we do as IDs. Many years ago a friend of a friend of mine worked at an education company and one evening we were at the same event. We…
Against Hope: OpenEd24
It has been a long time since I’ve heard Robin speak, or seen action over on the actualham blog, but we have the privilege of getting a sneak peak at her OpenEd24 talk Against Hope. This is not your usual Open Education talk, but it is a leitmotif of many conversations I’ve been in and around…
SADIE: Scoping AI Developments in Edtech at Edinburgh University
I wrote a a while back about the start of our SADIE project looking at AI in the third party systems we provide for our students and staff at University of Edinburgh. Educational technology (EdTech) services have not been immune to the excitement and rushing wave of AI adoption. It is important for learning technologists …