This week's review is on Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in Action by Michael Fullan. Fullan is back and better than ever... If it can feel that Fullan's books are the latest cinematic universe - sharing many of the same elements while moving forward at a regular pace - I can't argue with you. Made with Sora. This would have been an amazing cover. In this case, Fullan looks at systemness and sustainability approaching how schools, districts, and systems can crea

A review of the magazine issue from the Bishop Barron-led Word on Fire Institute. A beautifully-produced magazine that serves as just the...

Drawing on an idea from Teaching with AI : "AI can analyze the reviews, judgments, or social media posts of groups large and small"(location 1091). Often times, those of us marketing or promoting schools, struggle to articulate a compelling message. AI can be a great support here - serving as a test marketing system. Made with Sora. First, compile some basic demographic data - ages of parents and target groups, socio-economic status, background, location, et al. - these can b

This week's review is on Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis . In the nearly six years since its publication, Gary Marcus has remained a staunch contrarian even as Generative AI has exploded in financing, development, and implementation across the tech, business, and education worlds. Rebooting AI marks his first real entry into a critique of where the field was heading and the limitations imposed by those choices. Thi

From Pluribus News: TECHNOLOGY: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed legislation requiring app store operators to ascertain a user’s age when they first set up accounts on personal devices like iPhones and Androids. The first-of-its-kind measure is meant to allow easier age-gating for app developers, to provide minors with an age-appropriate experience. ( Pluribus News ) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Newsom vetoed legislation that would have banned minors from accessing com

This week's review is on Teaching with AI - A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by Jos é Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson. A book which states its aim clearly - focusing on the how, not necessarily the why or why not of using AI in teaching. Bowen and Watson present a brief overview on what AI is, before proceeding to Teaching (which includes a discussion of cheating, policies, and quality) and Learning (feedback, assessments, writing). The first section is l

Sam Altman dropped a news bomb on X yesterday, from the BBC : OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push to "treat adult users like adults", says its boss Sam Altman. In a post on X on Tuesday, Mr Altman said upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it, not because we are usage maxxing". Made by Sora. As Edward L Hamilton commen

Although it pains me to recognize any good coming from Stanford (or Google for that matter), this is good and something I called for...

Meta continues to work hard to be the worst social media and AI company : Meta announced on Wednesday that data collected from user...

From Google : A few months ago, we expanded Gemini in Classroom to help educators use AI for their common teaching tasks. Today, we’re...

The Better Pastor: A Fable  by Patrick Lencioni Clocking it at 101 pages, The Better Pastor aims to provide - in story form - simple...

This week's review is on Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell . A book written by an expert on AI -...

From Google : we’ll be introducing agentic capabilities to Gemini in Chrome. These will let Gemini in Chrome handle those tedious tasks...

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1879-1884: The human person needs to live in society. Society is not for him an extraneous...

Following up on my July 1 first post: " Gemini Summer? " and from July 18 " Gemini's Assent and A Modest Proposal , " we continue to see...

Ravi Yer and Jon Haidt's After Babel substack highlighted the Australian government's new social media age limi t: The law places the...

Harvard Business Review published a guide to using AI in team meetings: " 3 Ways AI Can Improve Team Meetings ." Elisa Farri and Gabriele...

Courtesy of the Neuron : behold, the ability t o branch a new chat in ChatGPT! So like, why would you want to do this? As Micah, the...

This idea comes out of a presentation from Brendan Schneider's AI Marketing Summit and a session from Joshua Clark . One of the problems...

For the general public is being reduced to a state where people not only are unable to find out about the truth but also become unable...