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Using AI to Implement Effective Teaching Strategies in Classrooms: Five Strategies, Including Prompts

Mollick, Ethan R. and Mollick, Lilach, Using AI to Implement Effective Teaching Strategies in Classrooms: Five Strategies, Including Prompts (March 17, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4391243 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4391243 “This paper provides guidance for using AI to quickly and easily implement evidence-based teaching strategies that instructors can integrate into their teaching. We discuss five teaching strategies …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Amazon’s European chokehold

SOMO Report. Amazon’s European chokehold, June 14, 2023: “Independent sellers and the economy under Amazon’s monopoly power. This research reveals the immense market power of Amazon in Europe and the revenue it derives from it. In most of Europe’s biggest economies, Amazon is the main route for independent businesses to access online shoppers. Amazon’s dominance …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Financial System, Internet

People Sure Are Bad at Creating Passwords

Lifehacker: “Bad password habits are hard to break. In the olden days of the internet, many of us got used to repeating the same, easy-to-remember password on every site, so we’d never have to worry about getting locked out. And recent data suggests plenty of people have yet to learn better, even if the era …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy

Freedom of speech and LGBT rights: Americans’ views of issues in Supreme Court case

“A majority of Americans think business owners should be able to refuse to provide services in situations where providing them may “suggest support for beliefs about lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) issues” to which they have personal or religious objections, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. In earlier surveys, the public has …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, Free Speech, Government Documents, Legal Research

Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks

Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks – Veniamin Veselovsky, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West 13 June 2023. “Large language models (LLMs) are remarkable data annotators. They can be used to generate high-fidelity supervised training data, as well as survey and experimental data. With the widespread adoption of …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management

Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition

Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition – NBER – preliminary draft 9/22/2022. We study the shifts in US firms’ workforce composition and organization associated with the use of AI technologies. To do so, we leverage a unique combination of worker résumé and job postings datasets to measure firm-level AI investments …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Knowledge Management

Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom

Larry Ferlazzois teaches English, Social Studies and International Baccalaureate classes to English Language Learners and mainstream students at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California. Recently on his blog he has been highlighting free sites and services (many require registration) that are useful to educators as well as librarians. This week among the apps he …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Climate Policy Radar

Global Stocktake Explorer – “Analysing, organising, and democratising data about climate change policies and laws. Climate Policy Radar is a not-for-profit climate startup on a mission to organise, analyse and democratise data on climate law and policy using augmented intelligence – a human-centered partnership model of people and AI. We build open and free tools …

Subjects: AI, Climate Change, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Privacy Tools Guide: Website for Encrypted Software & Apps

Privacy Tools Guide: Website for Encrypted Software & Apps – “Many of the activities we carry out on the internet leave a trail of data that can be used to track our behavior and access some personal information. Some of the activities that collect data include credit card transactions, GPS, phone records, browsing history, instant …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

The GPTJudge: Justice in a Generative AI World

Grossman, Maura and Grimm, Paul and Brown, Dan and Xu, Molly, The GPTJudge: Justice in a Generative AI World (May 23, 2023). Duke Law & Technology Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4460184 “Generative AI (“GenAI”) systems such as ChatGPT recently have developed to the point where they are capable of producing …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Drive Thru Data: Using NLM APIs to Access Information Fast

Drive Thru Data: Using NLM APIs to Access Information Fast, Recorded: June 13, 2023. 58 min. Speaker – Mike Davidson, Librarian, Office of Engagement and Training, National Library of Medicine (NLM) The NLM provides millions of people access to health information via its portfolio of products and services. But some people may need to access …

Subjects: AI, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Canadian Wildland Fire Information System

“The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System monitors fire danger conditions and fire occurrence across Canada. Daily weather conditions are collected from across Canada and used to produce fire weather and fire behavior maps. In addition, satellites are used to detect fires, and reported fire locations are collected from fire management agencies. This site is divided …

Subjects: Climate Change, E-Government, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

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