Saturday, August 26, 2023

Weekly Sporto bookmarks (weekly)

  • "where will creative careers begin?"

    tags: AI chatGPT LLM education

    • , where will creative careers begin?
    • massive implications for copyright
    • if the service seems to be free, then you are the product
    • all that AI does is to automate (and thus accelerate) processes that have already been under way for some time
    • the advent of AI provides us with yet more new curriculum content.
    • My observations above suggest a series of questions to do with the political economy of AI that might well be explored by students: basic questions about business, work and regulation are all familiar from the approaches we have developed with students relating to ‘older’ media.
    • However, there are other questions about how we might actively use AI in our teaching
    • Media education is not primarily about teaching with or through media, but teaching about media: it is not to be confused with educational media, or educational technology.
    • Arguably, the more effective and seamless the technology becomes, the harder (and yet more necessary) it is to take a critical distance from it: we need to slow it down, to de-familiarise it, and to consider how it might be otherwise.
    • Ideally, it should be interesting to compare outputs from different applications as well.
    • Glenn’s overall approach is refreshingly critical; but he also offers some engaging and productive ways to use the technology to create media such as comics and animation.
    • Teaching almost always uses media and technology in some form.
    • As ever, the question is whether teachers can learn to use technologies critically and creatively.
  • tags: AI chatGPT LLM education

  • tags: instructional design artificial-intelligence artificial intelligence AI

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