1. Here’s Michael Feldstein’s latest post on his eLiterate blog, Claude Interviews Me About How AI Works https://eliterate.us/claude-interviews-me-about-how-ai-works/ It’s a long read for the weekend, I suggest. Feldstein’s Claude has learnt (from Feldstein) to be very articulate.
I’m returning (says Michael) to a style of blogging I tried about a year ago, in which I engaged AIs in dialogue. I liked it, and I got good feedback on it. But back then, I was exploring how those strange new AI things worked. A year later—which is about 7 years for dogs and AIs—I use artificial intelligence to think and write daily. The early posts turned out to be prototypes for the kind of practical working conversations that I have with AIs all the time now. It’s normal (for me, anyway). Since e-Literate has always been about how I think and what I’m learning, I decided it would be both authentic and efficient (not to mention fun) to return to the AI-in-dialogue format.
2. A rich and accessible new website that the British Council developed for United Nations English Language Day on 23rd April, This is English: where every accent belongs https://www.britishcouncil.org/english-language-day
English doesn’t belong to one country or one accent. It’s shaped by us all. Explore how history, culture and identity shape the way the world speaks English.
3. Here’s UNESCO’s recent guidance on OER, Why OER: open educational resources https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000397810 PDF below as well.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are born out of the idea that everyone should have access to quality education and educational resources to support teaching and learning. Most resources you find online and in print are copyright restricted, not open. OER are like any other educational resource such as textbooks, videos, courses, or lesson plans. There are costs and effort associated with creating and maintaining educational resources, whether they carry an open license or are copyright restricted. But these efforts are mostly made better, more equitable, and sustainable by making your resources open.
4. A podcast called The Policy Fix threatens to be a bit nerdy, but this one from Nesta scores quite low on the nerdometer, How to make this the last ever UK energy crisis https://youtu.be/f1CYcYyyWnw
The UK is headed for another energy crisis. The war in Iran has choked energy markets and will be felt as another hit for inflation weary consumers and for the UK’s beleaguered economy. What should government do now? And how can it act to make sure that it doesn’t waste the crisis? In this episode of Policy Fix, host Joe Owen sits down with Nesta CEO Ravi Gurumurthy and director of Nesta’s sustainable future mission Madeleine Gabriel to untangle the acute effects of this latest energy shock from more long running challenges in the UK’s energy economy.
5. And finally, the W H Auden ‘Poetry Challenge’ series from The New York Times, five gift articles in one:
Day 1: Love, the cosmos and everything in between, all in 16 lines https://tinyurl.com/nhes4w4e
Day 2: What’s love got to do with it? https://tinyurl.com/mwzsspc2
Day 3: How to write about love? Be a little heartsick (and the best poet of your time) https://tinyurl.com/32vketjr
Day 4: Are we alone in the universe? Does it matter? https://tinyurl.com/3wajxzce
Day 5: You did it! You’re a star https://tinyurl.com/2p9nfw8x
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