Weekly Roundup: AI Hallucinations, Apple + OpenAI Partnership, Healthy Districts

Faster than some kid will start kicking the back of my seat during my flight to Denver for ISTELive, here are the week’s top articles from Tech & Learning.

But first, this week’s stop on the Connecticut Summer Ice Cream Tour: Ashley’s in Hamden!

Alright, let’s get nuts!

• 5 Reasons The OpenAI and Apple Partnership Intrigues Me As An Educator - Shaking off his ongoing concerns of the eventual AI uprising, Erik Ofgang looks at how adding AI to Apple has the potential to make its tools more useful in the classroom.
• Building A Healthy District From the Top Down - Quote of the week, courtesy of Craig Aarons-Martin: “There was just no way this six-foot-three-inch ‘care bear’ could keep up!” After realizing that his weight (more than 300 pounds) was preventing him from doing all the fun things with his students, Aarons-Martin decided to focus on improving his own wellness, and invited his school community to join him. And they succeeded together.
• Creating AI Tutors That Don’t Hallucinate - From trying to make pizza with glue to telling a New York Times writer he was unhappy in his marriage, AI has struggled with more hallucinations than your uncle who followed the Grateful Dead for a decade. Here's a look at the effort to train more reliable language models for AI tools in the classroom.
• Best Sites for Online Tutoring and Teaching - One aspect of online tutors that is underrated: Being available 24/7! Convenient if your students get distracted down a rabbit hole and then decide they want to start studying well after midnight, which is like 4 hours after my bedtime!
• Best Juneteenth Lessons and Activities - In case anyone was wondering why many had a day off yesterday: Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved Texans first learned of their freedom as directed by the Emancipation Proclamation.?
• Educator Edtech Review: BenQ Board Pro RP04 - Our educator edtech reviewer Frank Pileiro takes the new BenQ Board Pro RP04 interactive flat panel for a spin. Spoilerz: He likes it!
• 5 Cybersecurity Tips For Schools From CISA’s Deputy Assistant Director - Making quick cost-effective changes to cybersecurity systems can make a big difference for school safety, says CISA Deputy Assistant Director Trent Frazier. "[Schools] are a target-rich but resource-poor environment that really houses incredibly sensitive information about some of our most vulnerable populations.”
• PlayPosit: How to Use It to Teach - PlayPosit, a video-editing tool from WeVideo, helps make video interactions far more rich and engaging ... although I’m not sure your students will be able to create something as mind-blowing as the greatest music video in the history of all humankind! (You’ve been warned!)

All right, I’m hooked on the weekend and headed to ISTE. Hope to see you there!