AI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Good morning human,

It has been a week of Ofsted and Master’s deadlines, so it is just a short one today!

📚 Knowledge builders

•  AI and Reading → Carl Pattison (@Mr_P_Teach on X) provides a short and comprehensive video as to how you can make reading more accessible to students who find reading struggle

• A hammer blow to the human condition? → This study investigated whether non-expert readers could distinguish between AI-generated and human-written poetry. The results showed that participants performed below chance level, with AI-generated poems often being rated more favourably than human-written ones. This suggests that AI-generated poetry can be indistinguishable from human poetry and may even be preferred by readers

🤖 Industry updates

•  New Gemini Model → Google recently updated its Gemini model and it how no rushed to the top of the leaderboard of LMM-style AI tools. Expect it to trickle down to educational accounts in the near future.

•  AI is not making a uniform dent in teacher workload → ‘More than half of the teachers whose schools were using AI said it had no positive impact on their workload. One in four teachers (42 per cent) reported that AI had made no change to their workload and 9 per cent reported an increase.’

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✨ Fresh prompts

More of an AI workflow than a prompt (an area that is also quite interesting to explore). When you have made a multiple choice quiz using your AI tool of choice using the prompt below, copy the text and paste it into a word document, and save the file. Go to Microsoft/Google forms and click quick import.

Select the file that you saved earlier with the multiple choice questions. The software will then automatically create the quiz, as well as provide the correct answer. You are then free to add feedback based on what the answers were given and fine-tune the quiz experience based on your context.

The prompts was:

You are an expert assessment designer and you want to create 10 multiple choice quizzes on the following - Know that one way a fossil can be formed is through the following way: The animal dies. Soft parts of the animal's body, including skin and muscles, start to rot away or eaten by other animals. Before the body disappears completely, it is buried by sediment. Often at this point only the bones and teeth remain. Many more layers of sediment build up on top. This puts a lot of weight and pressure onto the layers below, squashing them. Eventually, they turn into sedimentary rock. While this is happening, water seeps into the bones and teeth, turning them to stone as it leaves behind minerals. The multiple choice questions should have no more than three answers and the distractors should provide insights into possible misconceptions. The answers should be given after each question.

The final sentence in the prompt seems to be important as it helps the software identify what the answer is to your question.

As ever, thanks for reading and keep on prompting! Mr A 🦾