{"id":84587,"date":"2022-12-22T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=84587"},"modified":"2022-12-22T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:59:10","slug":"some-example-plusses-and-minuses-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/12\/22\/some-example-plusses-and-minuses-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Some example plusses and minuses of technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>On the plus side:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prawfsblawg.blogs.com\/prawfsblawg\/2022\/12\/automation-higher-ed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Automation &amp; Higher Ed<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from prawfsblawg.blogs.com by Orly Lobel<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I was delighted to see this thoughtful review of my new book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Equality-Machine-Harnessing-Technology-Inclusive\/dp\/1541774752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em><strong>The Equality Machine<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em> focused on some of the questions nearest and dearest to prawfs&#8217; hearts: <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">the future of the professor and higher education as AI becomes more and more part of our learning and teaching.<\/span> <\/strong>In The Equality Machine, I have a chapter that considers robots and automation in education but does not delve into universities and higher ed. Here&#8217;s <em>[an excerpt from]<\/em> the review:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If the dream of creating high-quality\/low-cost scaled online programs is ever to be realized, artificial intelligence\u2014AI\u2014will likely be the key enabling technology. The job of the AI in a scaled (high-enrollment) online course will be to optimally connect the instructor to the learner. The AI will determine when the human instructor should coach, encourage and engage with the learner\u2014and when to hold back. The professor and the AI will collaborate to scale the relational model of learning that is the secret sauce of effective instructional practices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Integrating faculty and AI to scale quality online learning is, to my knowledge, today more an idea than a reality. After reading\u00a0The Equality Machine, however, I\u2019m more hopeful than ever that this vision will come to fruition. While not focusing on higher education, the book provides enough examples of the transformative powers of digital technology to enhance human flourishing that some level of academic techno-optimism may be warranted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ChatGPT doesn&#8217;t just write your students&#8217; essays for you.<\/p>\n<p>20 ways ChatGPT can help you teach\/learn<\/p>\n<p>? \/startthread<\/p>\n<p>1. Ask ChatGPT to write your lesson plans. (Or at least to get some new ideas.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Miller (@jmattmiller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmattmiller\/status\/1604848225080451072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>On the negative side:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DC: This is where technology can go horribly wrong. Actually, it&#8217;s often not our tools&#8230;it&#8217;s how we use them &#8212; that&#8217;s the opportunity or that&#8217;s the problem.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LovpGdeu7V\">https:\/\/t.co\/LovpGdeu7V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Christian (he\/him\/his) (@dchristian5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dchristian5\/status\/1605589680296054785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/12\/19\/1065306\/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from technologyreview.com<br \/>\n<em>Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2022\/12\/deepfake-synthetic-media-technology-rise-disinformation\/672519\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>We Haven\u2019t Seen the Worst of Fake News<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from theatlantic.com by Matteo Wong; <span style=\"color: #800000;\">behind paywall<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Deepfakes still might be poised to corrupt the basic ways we process reality\u2014or what\u2019s left of it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">It seems to me one of the key <em>potential<\/em> values that journalism can provide us with is finding out and reporting on the truth. On curating items that are true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-spawn-of-chatgpt-will-try-to-sell-you-things\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>The Spawn of ChatGPT Will Try to Sell You Things<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wired.com by Will Knight<br \/>\n<em>Companies are exploring how to adapt powerful new chatbot technology to negotiate with customer service\u2014and to persuade humans to buy stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">ChatGPT, the recently viral and surprisingly articulate chatbot, has dazzled the internet with its ability to dutifully answer all sorts of knotty questions\u2014albeit not always accurately. Some people are now trying to adapt the bot\u2019s eloquence to play different roles. They hope to harness the AI like that behind ChatGPT to create programs that can persuade, cajole, and badger with super-human tenacity\u2014in some cases to empower consumers but in others to win sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the plus side: Automation &amp; Higher Ed &#8212; from prawfsblawg.blogs.com by Orly Lobel Excerpt (emphasis DSC): I was delighted to see this thoughtful review of my new book The Equality Machine in Inside Higher Ed focused on some of the questions nearest and dearest to prawfs&#8217; hearts: the future of the professor and higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[816,831,480],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-privacy","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84587"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84675,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84587\/revisions\/84675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}