EdTech And AI News, June 4, 2024
Let’s start with the big news. Microsoft Flip’s website is going away so Flip will only be available to students and teachers in Microsoft Teams. A possible free replacement is the Vimeo FigJam plug-in that allows users to record using their webcam.
🤖📰 AI News
For all the hype, AI is not used that much. It may have entered the Trough of Disillusionment of the Gartner Hype Cycle.
AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study says by Tom Singleton for BBC, May 28, 2024.
The AI Revolution Is Already Losing Steam by Christopher Mims for The Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2024.
Generative AI is not environmentally sustainable. Here is more evidence:
US slows plans to retire coal-fired plants as power demand from AI surges by Amanda Chu for Financial Times, May 30, 2024.
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates by Mariana Mazzucato for The Guardian, May 30, 2024.
Thank you, John Warner, for taking one for the team. Warner read and reviewed Sal Khan’s informerial book.
We can do so much better than Khanmigo and the current status quo when it comes to giving students meaningful educational experiences. But to do that requires deep discussions and broad collaboration on what it means to learn. Brave New Words is not a contribution to that goal. - John Warner, June 2, 2024.
Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner spoke at length about why Sam Altman was fired by the board last fall.
Former OpenAI board member explains why CEO Sam Altman got fired before he was rehired by Hayden Field for CNBC, May 29, 2024.
👨🏻🏫 In Case You Missed It
Speaking of OpenAI, I wrote about the company and its compatibility with K-12 education last week.
I was honored to join Chris Nesi on his House of EdTech podcast.
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