Well, in case you were wondering what I sounded like, the answer is: awkward!

The team at explAInED invited me to join them last week for a half-hour chat about choice in learning. Specifically, the choice to not use generative AI as a teaching tool. I’ve already spoken and written enough about all the reasons for making a choice like this. Here, I really just wanted to talk about why choice is so important.

It was a great conversation, and I managed to:

• make fun of PhD research (because it’s really quite silly and I’m having a lot of fun)
• sneak in a sidebar about the potential of speculative fiction for collectively imagining better futures (follow #FlashFicFriday if you’re on LinkedIn)
• spruik my personal favourite book about generative AI, Janelle Shane’s illustrated classic You Look Like A Thing And I Love You.

But do bear in mind that it was morning, and I hadn’t had my coffee yet.

Please enjoy!

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