Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The second of a three post series. My youngest daughter gave the following birthday present: Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hesserus (2022; editors). Knowledge and information: The Potential and Peril of...
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The third and final of a three post series. My oldest daughter gave the following birthday present: some money and six cup cakes delivered to the door Our family has been very good at...
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. For a treat I had my first formal "conversation" with 'generative artificial intelligence' (G.I.A.). It was weird as the G.I.A. reported clearer ideas, clearer intelligence, than the human beings who have decision-making powers...
"In red states there is a movement to dumb the public. It starts in the educational realm where critical thinking is not simply not taught, it is actively discouraged. If history teach the rest of us that it can repeat itself then citizens of red states are not...
I cannot afford to purchase the book, but it has been saying exactly the concerns I have raised about how out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning. The reactionary thinkers had taken over and put us in a...
“SOFiA is a network of Australians interested in openly exploring issues of life and meaning through reason, philosophy, ethics, religion, science and the arts. We want to explore for ourselves what we can believe and how we can find meaning in our lives.” ...
Another friend of mine pointed out the many policy overreaches made and that "Learning has been devalued by those in charge for decades. e.g. university as just the acquisition of job tickets. And assignments that reward end products not learning." My friend, who I...
A friend of mine, a person who I consider one of Queensland’s top educators in science, pointed out that, “Most academics are unaware that there are AI designed to write undetected, it's not just chat get.” [joke on ChatGPT; to spell it out for the highly paid fools,...
Jack Grove, Academics despair as ChatGPT-written essays swamp marking season, The Times Higher Education Supplement, June 17, 2024 Another reason to employ or contract me, a human being. Academics...