I'm a little behind the times here, but each week I chip away at learning modern ways of doing what I used to do with #Flash. Today’s minor breakthru is a conversion of the Flash-based presentation I did 20 years ago for ED-MEDIA 2003. https://cat.xula.edu/initiatives/rich/ed-media/ It’s basically like a Powerpoint. Click or use arrow keys to advance thru the slides.
Be my boss! The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development (CAT+FD) at Xavier University of Louisiana seeks applications for a Director. https://jobs.xula.edu/postings/2872@edutooters
This paraphrase from Tristan Harris (by way of Freedom Baird) came across the #AI in Ed discussion group and seems worth sharing: The advent of social media was our “first contact” with AI, and we didn’t anticipate the negative consequences in time. And now LLMs constitute our “second contact” and let’s not screw it up.
"The Algorithm" certainly was around before it was applied to your social media timeline - think of all of those bloggers (myself included) who hacked their headlines to make them palatable for Google SEO and who chased search trends and traffic.
@editor@w8emv@edutooters I think that there are probably societally consequential AI examples predating social media.
If we look at the use of AI in the stock market we might not initially see it with societal implications but it did assume some of the decision making regarding the directions of society.
Alternatively if you want to think about direct impact then I would consider traffic control systems or even building HVAC controls.