I have been thinking a lot about what a useful bot might look like in terms of the prototypes we have been asked to devise. On the one hand there are bots that could be construed as instrumentalist; highly useful tools to minimise teacher workloads, taking on administrative, time-consuming tasks. These are certainly ‘useful’. However, […]

  This blog is to do some further work on the paragraph that you questioned in response to my critique of the NESTA report. In my Critique (31.01.21) I wrote: On their website, NESTA claims to focus on ‘the human, social and public dimensions of AI.’ https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/artificial-intelligence/ This essentialist view, propounded by both Hamilton & […]

It’s been a busy week and thus far my IDEL work has consisted of a lot of thinking and spending time on Twitter, exploring the ‘bot world’. I look forward to seeing if this week’s musings will radically change after doing the required reading. So what are my preconceptions and initial thoughts? No significant learning […]