[Take 2] Ed/Tech must-reads

Apologies colleagues, a production error* meant that I shared the wrong link for the captioning story. This has now been updated. (*fat fingers)

A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays from Scientific Reports

Herbold et al. compare 90 human written essays by later year high school students with GPT3 and GPT4 versions written about the same topics. They are in no doubt that the GenAI alternatives are better written and urge educators to rethink contemporary assessment models.

KPMG lodges complaint after AI-generated material was used to implicate them in non-existent scandals from The Guardian

Somebody who nonetheless probably should have considered their use of GenAI tools more carefully are the (normally) highly regarded senior accounting academics that used Google’s Bard tool to assist with their recent submission to the Commonwealth Govt’s inquiry into the Big Four consultancy firms. Bard hallucinated a range of scandals that you might have hoped these people were aware hadn’t happened, throwing the process into farce. Imagine making me feel bad for those monsters. Always consult your educational technologists people.

3 surprising ways that captioning improves learning for all of your students from LX at UTS

Captioning is not only something that everyone providing media resources should be doing as a matter of course, it does in fact support greater engagement and comprehension for all learners. I have been thinking recently about the hesitancy I feel when captions aren’t an option in my leisure viewing - aside from reading jokes before they are delivered, shows are just easier to parse nowadays. This handy guide from the Learning Experience team at UTS provides research evidence in support of their use.