Tag: Generative AI

Jisc’s Accessible Digital Futures project: Growth of AI in and as assistive technology

Attendees at the JISC workshop discussing accessibility

In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) held on the 16th of May this year, Sylwia Frankowska-Takhari and I were invited to participate in the second session of a series of workshops that are part of a project called ‘Accessible Digital Futures’, a joint effort between Jisc’s National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education…Continue Reading Jisc’s Accessible Digital Futures project: Growth of AI in and as assistive technology

Insights from Jisc’s Accessible Digital Futures Opening Event

Yesterday, Jessica Wykes (City’s Accessibility Librarian) and I attended the opening event for a project called “Accessible Digital Futures,” a joint effort between Jisc’s National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education and the Glenlead Centre, led by Dr. Ann Kristin Glenster. This two-year initiative aims to significantly boost the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence within…Continue Reading Insights from Jisc’s Accessible Digital Futures Opening Event

Building blocks for ‘City 2030’

Two tables of women in discussion at a workshop. Both tables have three people at them. There is a display of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals on the wall behind the tables.

A co-design climate workshop This is the second of two posts about ‘City 2030’, the proposed undergraduate interdisciplinary module on climate change and sustainability. Click here to read the first one. Titled ‘Co-creating Climate Curricula’, the Learning at City 2023 workshop looked to bring staff and students together to start work on what a first…Continue Reading Building blocks for ‘City 2030’

A Climate Copilot for Digital Education

Two trees on a raised area of ground with sunlight coming through behind them

So, Microsoft have made their new OpenAI-powered tool Copilot (‘Your everyday AI companion‘) available to certain education clients. On stumbling across this fact and having been among that tranche of ChatGPT’s first million users, I was similarly curious about this latest endeavour into mainstreaming Generative AI. I decided to try my hand at Copilot and…Continue Reading A Climate Copilot for Digital Education