SAIL: OpenAI needs adult supervision, Nvidia nails it, Tutors, LearnLM, Jobs

May 23, 2024

Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) AI is facing increased reckoning from regulatory interests, with EU leading. In the land of significant freedom, OpenAI...

SAIL: Data consortium, All of Life, Context Windows, GPT-4o, AI and Deception

May 14, 2024

Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) Hi all, There’s an important conversation happening in AI that was reflected in a short exchange I had on a panel last...

SAIL: Kendrick is winning, AI agents, Elections, AI & Nukes

May 6, 2024

Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL).May 6, 2024 Agents are all the rage. Russell & Norvig describe agents as something that can perceive and act in an...

SAIL: Self-promotion, Meta AI, Social Science, Vectors, Databases

April 21, 2024

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) - a “when I feel like it” newsletter on AI and learning. I’m learning to be better. Last week I spent time at...

SAIL: Agents, LLMs, Transformers, Attention, Data

April 13, 2024

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). My goal with the newsletter is to share, for mainly the higher education sector, trends that matter in AI....

SAIL: AI & Education Groundhog's day

November 16, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL), a regular look at how AI is impacting education and learning. Over the last year, after dozens of...

SAIL: Broadening Learning, ELAI, Safetey, Regulation

November 4, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL), a regular look at how AI is impacting learning. Our education system has a uni-dimensional focus: learning...

SAIL: ELAI recordings, AI Safety, Near term AI/learning

October 27, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). A regular look at how AI is impacting learning. We held our fourth online Empowering Learners for the Age of...

SAIL: Online AI & Learning Conference (free). Also, Intentionally Play with AI Everyday

October 19, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL), a regular review of things related to AI and learning. Our 4th annual "Empowering Learners for the Age of...

SAIL: SNHU, AI Ed Conference, State of AI

August 29, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). This is a regular newsletter that tracks AI trends through the lens of education. I have a quasi-...

SAIL: AI Policy, Top Startups, ChatGPT Use Drops

July 23, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) - a (usually) weekly look at AI in education and learning. The last few months have seen a bit of a slowdown...

SAIL: State of Research: AI & Education

July 5, 2023

The state of AI and education research is proceeding briskly and only expected to accelerate if it matches the hype trend lines of big tech and AI. The USA...

SAIL: Universal Knowledge Engine

June 13, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) a regular look at how AI impacts education. We don't have many search engines. Most people use Google. Some...

SAIL: What's left for humans?

June 8, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) a regular look at how AI is impacting education. I'm in Anaheim for the ELI conference. I have a talk...

SAIL: Networks are the rule of day, but with costs

June 1, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) a regular look at how AI advances impact education. In a conversation today, I was reminded of a paper that...

SAIL: We're not doing ok.

May 25, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) - a regular look at what's happening in AI and what that means to education. Postman, Ellul, McLuhan - these...

SAIL: The vision can be realized

May 19, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) a weekly+ look at AI and its impact on education. What's the best new idea in education that you've...

SAIL: We should all be AI-first

May 17, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL), a regular look at AI's impact on education and learning. Over the last several decades, we've seen...

SAIL: AI hype and the reality of systems change

May 10, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning - a look at AI and its ongoing impact on education. I have a good friend and colleague who is a linguist. This can...

SAIL: AI is the only thing

May 4, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL)- a look at the trends and technologies impacting education. In numerous meetings with university leadership,...

SAIL: Change vs Becoming, AI Lecture Series

April 26, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) - a focus on how AI impacts teaching, learning, and education. Many years ago, I started doing talks on the...

SAIL: Two paths; AI as addon. AI as transformative

April 21, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) a (twice?) weekly look at what's happening with AI and how that might impact learning and education. The last...

SAIL: Getting to educational impact

April 17, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL): a weekly look at AI trends and technologies. I'm at ASU-GSV Summit in San Diego this week. Hardly surprising...

SAIL: Everything changes

April 12, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning - a weekly look at general AI trends and educational impact. Anyone in the education sector has experienced "next-...

SAIL: AI Index, Future of Education, Survey of LLMs, Italy doesn't like CGPT

April 3, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning - a weekly look at AI trends and trajectories and their impact on learning and education. Since the founding of AI...

SAIL: All AI, In Everything, Learning Co-Pilot

March 25, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL). Education as a system has been slow to respond to the rather significant opportunities of generative AI...

SAIL: All AI, All The Time (A3T2)

March 15, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) - a weekly (soon to be more frequent) look at AI in learning and education. Currently, it seems like decades...

SAIL: Beingness, USA AI Innovation Ecosystem, Psychology

March 3, 2023

Hi all, welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning - a weekly newsletter about things related to AI in educational settings. Since November 2022, most of us...

SAIL: Escalating Cognition, AI Lies, AGI, The Law is Coming for GAI

February 26, 2023

Hi all - welcome to another edition of Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) - a weekly look at AI developments that matter for education. I've had several...

SAIL: Cooling hype?, Leadership Development, AI Workshops

February 18, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning - a weekly look at AI progress and possible impact on education. The generative AI hype (i.e. ChatGPT) has been...

SAIL: Many Webinars. GPT-Inside. Music.

February 2, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning - a weekly look at how AI and technology are progressing and impacting learning. The landscape is still murky in AI...

SAIL: AI and Learning, Future of Education

January 22, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning - a weekly look at how AI and technology are progressing and impacting education. A few thoughts: -What might...

SAIL: Banning AI, Regressing to Paper, Regulation

January 10, 2023

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL)! The AI landscape is undergoing a stunning sequence of changes (as some have noted, partially driven by the...

SAIL: ChatGPT, AGI, Ways of Being,Copyright

January 3, 2023

Happy 2023 everyone! This is the first issue of Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL) for 2023. As noted in several emails last year, 2022 was all about...

SAIL: AI & Learning - Closing out 2022

December 27, 2022

Welcome to Sensemaking, AI, and Learning (SAIL)! It has been a year of progress and public awakening to the possible roles of AI in education. Here's a few...

SAIL: This changes everything

December 8, 2022

Hi all, There have been a three points in my life where I have felt something like "this is something huge...it changes everything". The first was during an...

SAIL #16: HAC, Galactica, Art

November 20, 2022

Hi all, Welcome to the weekly Sensemaking, AI and Learning (SAIL) newsletter! First, if you haven't down so, have a look at our upcoming online conference on...

SAIL: Online conference, Twitter, Generative AI

November 11, 2022

Currently, there is

SAIL: Empowering Learners

October 30, 2022

GRAILE is now

SAIL: Profiles Webinar, Creativity, Mental Health

September 4, 2022

GRAILE is hosting a seminar on Learner Profiles . Registration is free. Developing profiles of learners is foundational to adaptive and personalized...

SAIL: AI Literacy, chatbots, writing

August 27, 2022

AI literacy is a growing concern. Namely: how do we engage with and make sense of AI and how can leadership assess the longer impact of AI? I was at Red...

SAIL: Robots, EdTech, Future of Ed, Expertise

August 19, 2022

Robots When most people think advanced technologies and AI, some variation of robots or physical technologies (rather than algorithms and large data sets)...

SAIL: Dehumanizing, Robots Breaking Fingers, Mozilla

August 1, 2022

I have been hearing about the need for faster learning for about thirty years. At various times, organizational leaders/business consultations launch books...

SAIL: Open Analytics

July 8, 2022

Hi all, A number of years ago, a group of us published a concept paper on Open Learning Analytics. The intent was to create a platform for analytics work...

SAIL: Synthetic Data, Emotion Reading Software

June 29, 2022

Hi all, Synthetic data is a topic that has been floating around for over a decade and is recently gaining recognition and attraction, with Forbes humbly...

SAIL: AI Literacy, Ethics (as always), DALL-E, Pair Programming, Colonial AI

June 23, 2022

Hi all, A few things of note in the world of AI and learning this week: Here's a practical use for AI in the lives of students: cleaning their social media...

AI is Sentient, Worst AI Ever, Foundation Models, Race, Special Issue

June 15, 2022

Hi, It's been a busy week in the world of AI. I try to constrain this newsletter to AI advancements that will have a practical impact on knowledge processes...

SAIL: AI Futures, Metaversity, AI Infrastructure, Social Credit

June 6, 2022

Good morning! A common theme of this newsletter is to track and identify the topics and discussions that relate to AI and AI's potential in supporting human...

SAIL: Data Collection, Ethics, Community

May 30, 2022

Welcome GRAILE members! This weekly email will focus on sensemaking, AI, and learning. The intent is systemic change and transformation. Today the language...

SAIL: State of the AI World, Ethics, Tools

November 16, 2020

The goal of this newsletter is to track trends related to AI that have an impact on learning and knowledge processes. This is no easy task. The world of AI...