Centre for Innovation in Teaching & Learning

| AI Impact Risk | |
| Over the last few years, an increasing number of scholars have argued that the impact of AI is repeating the patterns of colonial history. European colonialism, they say, was characterized by the violent capture of land, extraction of resources, and exploitation of people—for example, through slavery—for the economic enrichment of the conquering... | |
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Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) |
Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of our lives, from self-driving cars to ChatGPT. John Oliver discusses how AI works, where it might be heading next, and, of course, why it hates the bus. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... |
| Resources curated by Kathryn Conrad and Sean Kamperman | |
| Let's talk about harm caused by humans implementing AI. | |
| The article highlights the importance of determining when Artificial Intelligence in Education is unethical, recognizing that artificial intelligence can threaten academic integrity but also presents opportunities. The authors state that proper acknowledgement is required but can be done in different ways depending on the context, and discuss the importance of educating both students and teachers. | |
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The End of Creativity?! – AI-Generated Content under the Canadian Copyright Act |
This article goes through some considerations around AI-generated content and “who” owns it. Framed within the context of the Canadian Copyright Act, the article tackles the possibility that ownership might reside with the AI’s developer, the user of the AI, the AI itself, or in public domain. Currently, AI-generated content does not fall under the Canadian Copyright Act, but this might evolve. |
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Ethical Guidelines for Creating Content in a World of Generative AI: For the Classroom and Beyond |
I was preparing the syllabus for a social computing course I’m teaching next fall when I saw Cori Faklaris’ blog post about her course policy for using AI tools. It helped inspire me to write down ethical guidelines that I’ll be providing my students… |
| This post provides an update on the AISNSW ICT Management and Leadership conference, including discussions and presentations on various topics related to technology in education. Day one focused on… | |
| A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible | |
| Explained: Generative AI's Environmental Impact | Rapid development and deployment of powerful generative AI models comes with environmental consequences, including increased electricity demand and water consumption |
| Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI | As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. |
| Generative AI can seem like magic. Image generators such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, or DALL·E 2 can produce remarkable visuals in styles from aged photographs and water colors to pencil ... | |
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Green Intelligence: Why Data And AI Must Become More Sustainable |
AI, big data, and machine learning are growing at a phenomenal pace, but these technologies also have an enormous environmental impact. Find out what can be done to make AI and big data more sustainable. |
| Buzzfeed recently published a now deleted article on what AI thinks Barbies would look like from different countries around the world.The results contained e... | |
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ICAI-Canada Statement on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity |
ICAI-Canada remains up-to-date with AI advancements, providing educational resources for fostering integrity in an increasingly technology-driven education landscape. In this article, ICAI is offering their current recommendations for responsible AI integration. |
| Will the AI revolution superpower equity - or inequity? | |
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"It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models |
Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals |
| The Learning With AI Initiative From the University of Maine | Rather than try to ban this technology from classrooms outright, this project asks if this moment offers an opportunity to introduce students to the ethical and economic questions wreaked by these new tools, as well as to consider fresh new forms of … |
| To view the full keynote and other videos from Strata Data Conference, visit:http://oreilly.com/go/stratauk19Big data analytics and AI draw nonintuitive and ... | |
| The Health Policy paper of Esmita Charani and colleagues,1 showed how stereotypical global health tropes (such as the so-called suffering subject and white saviour) can be perpetuated through the images chosen to illustrate publications on global hea… | |
| Update: since I wrote this original post covering the nine areas, I've expanded each one into a complete article. Have a read through this post, and then when... | |
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We asked ChatGPT to write performance reviews and they are wildly sexist (and racist) |
Textio’s cofounder Kieran Snyder observes that it takes so little for ChatGPT to start baking gendered assumptions into otherwise highly generic feedback. |
| Where Are the Crescents in AI? | Batting away the hype, bias, and botshit, LSE HE Blog Fellow, Maha Bali, champions the need for cultivating critical AI literacy in our students, and shares tried and tested teaching ideas and exercises for educators |