Naming Things is Hard: From OELMs to GOLEs

In recent conversations, several people I’ve talked to have been confused by the phrase “open educational language models” (OELMs) that I’ve been using to describe the new line of work I’m pursuing. Inevitably, they’ve ended up thinking that the term refers exclusively to the generative language model component of the system, and excludes the broader … Read more

Making AI a More Effective Teacher: Lessons from TPACK

Human Teachers and AI Teachers Would you be surprised if you pulled a random person off the street, shoved them into a classroom full of students, and then found that they weren’t a particularly effective teacher? Of course not. And why wouldn’t that be surprising? Because effective teaching requires a great deal of knowledge and … Read more