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Independent test of #OpenAI’s o1-preview model achieved near-perfect performance on a national #math exam (landing in the top .1% of the nation’s students).
o1 also outperformed 4o on the math test, but took about 3 times longer to do so (10 minutes vs. 3 minutes).
Preprint: researchgate.net/publication/3…
I heard a discussion at #FOSSY24 regarding "FOSS outside of corporations," referring to the origin of the Free and #OpenSource software movement, beginning with hobbyists and foundations.
Thought I would also include the early contributions to FOSS from and through #HIgherEducation. Many foundational projects have their roots in #HigherEd.
Here's my advice on how to design your course to be more ADHD-friendly. Many of these tips will help students regardless of #ADHD diagnosis: scaffolding large projects and being abundantly consistent about instructions.
#Academia #UDL #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #DisabledInSTEM
theadhdacademic.weebly.com/tea…
Course design - ways to help ADHD folks
Learning environments are often not created with ADHD learners in mind; struggles with working memory, regulating attention, and executive functions create different challenges for us. Making your...the ADHD Academic
OK, trying an experiment with my Programming Languages class!
• Have an AI generate some of your writing assignment.
• Critique its output. Call BS on its BS.
Assignment details in screenshots below. I’ll let you know how it goes.
(Here are the links from the screenshots:)
Raw AI Text:
gist.github.com/pcantrell/7b68…
Comments on AI Text:
gist.github.com/pcantrell/d51b…
(Better) Human Text
gist.github.com/pcantrell/f363…
#ai #chatgpt #education #writing #highered
#swift #proglang
My favorite outcome so far: a student remarked (paraphrasing here) that she didn’t realize how much she had to say in her paper until she saw how wrong the AI was, how much it missed the point.
Observing her own reaction to BS about her topic made her realize she’d underestimated the extent of her own newly-forming knowledge. That…that is the sort of outcome an educator dreams of.