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AI in Education Knowledge Base(edtechdev.github.io)
2 points by edtechdev 17d ago|1 comments
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by edtechdev 17d ago
Public domain auto-updating knowledge base of recent open-access research on AI in educational contexts. Currently has ingested 950 research articles, synthesized into 180 concept pages. Static astro 7 site generated with Hermes and DeepSee
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by edtechdev 26d ago
Here's research showing the same exact effect 15 years ago, except it's about homework copying: https://news.mit.edu/2010/homework-copying-0318 Students who copied their homework more saw their grades go down
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by edtechdev 4mo ago
Or get an AMD 395 laptop or mini PC for half the price of an equivalent mac device
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by edtechdev 7mo ago
which explains why this tool requires a NEAR AI account to use
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by edtechdev 11mo ago
I tried this out on huggingface, and it has the same issue as every other multimodal AI OCR option (including MinerU, olmOCR, Gemini, ChatGPT, ...). It ignores pictures, charts, and other visual elements in a document, even though the model
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by edtechdev 1y ago
Cognitive load isn't a valid or useful concept: https://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/cognitive-load-th... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2024.2
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by edtechdev 2y ago
Some research: Students learn and understand college math more when the classes are contextualized (usually engineering, biology, but you can also use everyday examples). See decades of research on situated learning and related approaches.
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by edtechdev 3y ago
Good to see further development in this space. Would be interesting to see how it compares to Decap CMS https://decapcms.org/ and Static CMS https://www.staticcms.org/ Me personally I'd like to see som
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by edtechdev 3y ago
It struggles with basic math: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-tutoring-students-but-stil...
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Musk's X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation(reuters.com)
8 points by edtechdev 3y ago|8 comments
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by edtechdev 3y ago
There are some activitypub apps that support nomadic identity like HubZilla and Streams: https://codeberg.org/streams/streams Another non-activitypub alternative is nostr, where your identity is a public/private k
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by edtechdev 3y ago
MAA has a free, evidence-based instructional practices guide https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/curriculum%20re...
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by edtechdev 3y ago
I'm not sure, but maybe GPT4All will eventually add support for it: https://gpt4all.io/
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by edtechdev 3y ago
Educational researcher here. There's no such thing as a "science of reading." It's part of the highly politicized "reading wars" (see also the "math wars" which has been going on for decades). It&#x27
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by edtechdev 4y ago
Wikipedia is unfortunately biased in many areas that have any kind of controversy/disagreement. Education is one other topic where Wikipedia has a lot of bias. Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" idea is not only false b
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by edtechdev 4y ago
Would be interesting to see this connected to YouTube, to improve upon their auto generated transcripts. There is this command line version using YouTube-dl and OpenAI's API https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/
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by edtechdev 4y ago
You could do a similar 4GB RAM server setup for around $7/month using the Yunohost server app manager (free) + a VPS server host like Hetzner (or see lowendbox for others). See the instructions on the bottom of this page, for example:
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by edtechdev 4y ago
I was curious if there are plugins for [[wiki links]] and backlinks. Best I can tell, you'd need to use this wiki link plugin for the remark markdown processor: https://github.com/landakram/remark-wiki-link And th
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by edtechdev 4y ago
Chemicals from tires are killing off fish, too: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2022/...
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Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?(mckinsey.com)
2 points by edtechdev 4y ago|1 comments
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by edtechdev 4y ago
There have already been responses to this criticism before, such as: https://drbenvincent.medium.com/the-dunning-kruger-effect-pr... including from David Dunning himself https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/vo
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by edtechdev 5y ago
Logseq is free and open source https://logseq.com/ You have to sync yourself though (for now). You can also publish to github pages. My only issues are: they are focusing more on the desktop and (now) mobile apps, instead o
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A lawsuit could shut down the Internet Archive(datebook.sfchronicle.com)
7 points by edtechdev 5y ago|4 comments
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by edtechdev 5y ago
This Falstad animated circuit simulation has been the best at conceptually understanding what's going on in circuits: https://falstad.com/circuit Click on the 'Circuits' menu to see dozens of example circuit
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With Covid-19, Air Is Both the Problem and the Solution(mcgill.ca)
2 points by edtechdev 5y ago|0 comments
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by edtechdev 5y ago
Cognitive load theory is unfalsifiable and wrong about many things https://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/cognitive-load-th... Of course we have limits to how much we can do at once, but learning isn&#x27
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by edtechdev 5y ago
TerminusDB is a graph database that supports versioning https://terminusdb.com/
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Enabling children and beginning programmers to build AI programs with Snap(ecraft2learn.github.io)
1 points by edtechdev 5y ago|0 comments
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Liqvid – Create interactive videos in React(liqvidjs.org)
2 points by edtechdev 5y ago|0 comments

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