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The UTS Health Faculty's GenAI-ENHANCE Summit provides an annual snapshot of the leading edge applied research that's testing the potential of GenAI to deepen learning in their diverse health programs, as well as how GenAI is changing professional practice. CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum was honoured to give the keynote, painting a broader contextual picture, before the program deep-dived into specific contexts. Continuing the theme of his recent work, he explored the intersection of 3 concepts:...
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What does it take to get Copilot working well with finance data? New work led by Shane Lee sheds light on the “invisible labour” often required for AI productivity gains... We all recognise the marketing discourse around GenAI promising staff empowerment and rapid productivity gains. However, Shane Lee’s work injects a dose of reality, documenting how sociotechnical realities on the ground can introduce ‘friction’ before such gains are realised, requiring various “workarounds” (an established c...
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CIC's director Simon Buckingham Shum delivered two keynote addresses recently, framing AI as thinking tools in the context of the global polycrisis... In his talks to the Societal Impact of AI Symposium at UNSW Sydney, and the international Online Teacher Education Conference, Simon argues that the societal and educational implications of significantly degraded/collapsing, interacting systems are profound, and education is called to equip our students for this. It is in this context that dialog...
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"Learner flourishing" is a wholistic concept that reflects current concerns that education must cultivate the whole person for the turbulent times ahead. A special issue dedicated to how this intersects with AI has just come out... There is growing emphasis on flourishing as a fundamental concept for our times, possibly more helpful than "sustainability" as argued by John Ehrenfeld: "flourishing — the attainment of the full potential of living creatures." When it comes to learners, Frank Ma...
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Don't blame the AI: you're accountable for your work! "VivaBuddy" aims to help students check they haven't outsourced too much thinking when they co-author with AI. Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh is a doctoral researcher in the Transdisciplinary School, supervised by Antonette Shibani and CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum, supported by CIC Specialist Software Engineer Andrey Inkin. As we move into an era when undetectable AI is both deepening and undermining thinking and writing, regardless of how much AI ma...
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Yuveena Gopalan's doctoral research is studying how successful researchers learnt their craft. The first major publication from her PhD has just come out, distilling the insights from interviews into a conceptual framework. Strange as it may seem, relatively little is known about how academic researchers learn. Yes there are training courses to build specific skills, but all the evidence from workplace learning studies shows that this is not how professionals in other sectors learn. Co-supervis...
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