The Entwined exhibit is at Peacock Meadow in Golden Gate Park until March 12th. Due to the recent heavy rain, there were beautiful reflections in the huge puddles that formed.
On My Radar – January 2023
- The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2023 (NYT Tech Fix)
- What Happened in 2022 (AVC)
- What Will Happen In 2023 (AVC)
- The Shameful Open Secret Behind Southwest’s Failure (NYT Opinion)
- Mastodon – Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data (paulstamatiou.com)
- The biggest tech trends of 2023, according to over 40 experts (Fast Company)
- Ring finally debuts its in-car security camera (Engadget)
- Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It. (NYT)
- Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and third-party clients (9to5 Google)
I’ll be updating this throughout the month
Palos Verdes Sunset
On My Radar – December 2022
- Aura, the frame and photo startup, raises $26M as it nears 3M app users with 1M frames sold (TechCrunch)
- Golden Gate Park’s bison used to be chaotic escape artists — until one major change was made (SF Chronicle)
- The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter (Lenny Rachitsky)
- I Built an AI Chatbot Based On My Favorite Podcast (Dan Shipper)
- Self-Driving Taxis Are Causing All Kinds of Trouble in San Francisco (Slate)
- Is this the moment for Twitter alternatives? T2.social is one of them and the founder of that project… (TechMeme Ride Home podcast)
Some thoughts on ChatGPT / Education
Some thoughts / questions on ChatGPT and how it will impact education.
- How many students are already using it to write essays, book reports, etc.?
- What is the current awareness of educators about it and how many schools already have written policies in place about it this technology?
- Should it be highly discouraged for students, or could it be a good tool – eg to get a basic outline for an essay and then authentically write the essay based on that outline?
Here’s an example of ChatGPT providing an outline for a book report. Using this verbatim would be cheating of course but what if the student just used this as a framework for their report? I can see this also being useful for teachers for lesson planning.
Update:
The Hard Fork podcast interviewed a teacher who is very optimistic about using Chat GPT in the class room. This is in contrast to other stories that have developed around this – like the New York City school district banning Chat GPT in the classroom and another school teacher calling this the end of high-school English.