Techno-News Blog. Use of artificial intelligence has become more common in the college classroom, and advocates say it can help with everything from improved writing skills to understanding DNA theory, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Critics charge, however, that AI may be used to gloss over structural problems in higher education and result in formulaic teaching and potential threats to privacy. More...

Enterprise IA Roadmap
While not a complete picture, this diagram (available via link as a PDF from this page) is nonetheless a useful guide to undersatanding the dimensions of enterprise information architecture. Where the author uses the term 'klog' you can replace it with the original term 'weblog' or 'blog'. More...

How artificial intelligence could help teachers do a better job
Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report, 2018/08/02
I can't imagine there are too many teachers who would welcome the opportunity to be corrected by an artificial intelligence. Yet we move one step closer with "a computer model that came close to an expert educator’s ability to discern when a teacher was asking students an 'authentic' question." The model doesn't tell you what makes a question authentic - that would take the human evaluators who trained the model. More...

Intelligence and Its Artifacts
In your thought piece for the day, Steve Talbott raises the question of what happens when we lose touch with the "originating intelligence" in electronic communications. The mind creates ideas, the ideas are translated into words, and these - tokens of our thoughts, not the throughts themselves - are sent into the ether. More...

Using Multiple Intelligence Theory in the Virtual Classroom
Given a list of Gardner's multiple intelligences (MI) that describe various learning styles, and given a fairly common sense understanding of the range and capacities of various learning technologies, it is fairly straightforward to construct the list in this article, matching technologies to intelligences. More...