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101 creative ideas to use AI in education, A crowdsourced collection
Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Abbeglen, Marianna Karatsiori, Antonio Martínez-Arboleda , Zenodo, 2023/06/23

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From the intro: "This open crowdsourced collection (131 page PDF) by #creativeHE presents a rich tapestry of our collective thinking in the first months of 2023 stitching together potential alternative uses and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that could make a difference and create new learning, development, teaching and assessment opportunities." They are good suggestions, including things like "generating feedback poetry", "persona-generating program for student researchers", and "AI-generated case studies". Each idea is written up and most contain links to more information or ideas.

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Made-in-Canada Internet Takes Shape with Risks of Blocked Streaming Services and News Sharing as Bill C-18 Receives Royal Assent - Michael Geist
Michael Geist, 2023/06/23

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"In less than two months," writes Michael Geist, "the government has reshaped the Internet in Canada with Bills C-11 and C-18 leading to streaming services that may block Canadian users and platforms that may block news sharing... with Canada emerging as a model for how things can go badly wrong." Well - it's not a model yet, since the bills have just come into effect. And frankly, I have no love for any side in this dispute, not the social media companies (and their AI cousins) who mine and monetize the open internet, and not the publishing and media companies who have been working as hard as they can to close the internet and to re-establish the news and media monopolies they used to enjoy. With luck, they'll all lose. I liked the model of the internet where we each paid for our own computers and bandwidth and then shared whatever we wanted with each other, for free, without anyone trying to close it down or monetize the interaction.

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Opera's generative AI-infused browser is ready for the masses | Engadget
Kris Holt, Engadget, 2023/06/23

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The latest web browser from Opera, Opera One, is now available for general access. I've been playing with the development version a bit - what it does is combine a number of services, including music players, social discussion, and chatGPT, into the browser interface. The idea is to leverage these into creating a better, more integrated, browser experience (compared to right now where I'm running Discord, Amazon Music, and Firefox in separate application, and apps like Feedly and NextCloud in separate windows. Does it do everything I need? No. Is it cool and innovative? Yes. The browser prompted  Mark Oehlert to ponder on LinkedIn, "what if this is how you get a new LMS...? Then 'launch day' is just as easy for the end user, as opening your browser and going to work. No more separate systems and the real difference could be that new system will be learning how to help you better as it learns from everyone else using it."

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The Angular Mini-Book 3.0
InfoQ, 2023/06/23

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Angular is a platform for building mobile and desktop web applications. It has been around for a while and readers would be forgiven for forgetting that it exists. This InfoQ  Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with Angular. "You'll learn how to develop a bare-bones application, test it, and deploy it. Then you'll move on to adding Bootstrap, Angular Material, continuous integration, and authentication." New to me is the discussion of Spring Boot, a framework for building REST APIs. If I find time (hah!) I'll consider working my way through this. Meanwhile, I'll not it here. It's a free ebook (200 page PDF) though you may be faced with a spamwall.

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Assessing the Value of Integrating Writing and Writing Instruction into a Research Methods Course | The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Jayne Baker, Tyler Evans-Tokaryk, Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023/06/23

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My interest in this paper (21 page PDF) stems from my interest in research methods. Essentially the authors argue that focused tutorial support and writing instruction helps students write better research questions. It's one of these things I would have thought of as obvious, but research, I guess, is about not making assumptions. Anyhow, where I go from this is to ask whether such a clear dependence on writing skills shapes research questions, and therefore, the nature of our research. Or to put it another way, would we research differently if we did not have language, and if so, in what way?

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