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Jul-09-23 A proposal to address a frequent request...
Jul-10-23 Tracking and positive accountability
Jul-13-23 Conversation about Social Annotation
Jul-14-23 Describing what Thinking Partners are...
Jul-16-23 Explaining Thinking Partners

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Okay, so ler's deal with my running goal first, I've said that I want to run five miles a day. What is the real deal here is that I want to get out for a run twice a day. With that, it's nothing to get to 5 miles: 2.5 miles each time. So yeah, I've clarified that for myself.

I wonder if there are other goals for the work -- of Noyce and LUTE-STEM... of releasing and promoting AI on NowComment and Youth Voices. That I could clarify in this same way by breaking down what needs to get done each day and breaking it in to a couple of sessions.

I think it all comes down to better planning of my days.

I'm worried about how we will be able to set up an accountable system with the Lehman students where we can track what they are doing. It's about self-assessment and personal, positive accoutnatility -- then a possibility of sharing what we are learning with each other.

DMU Timestamp: July 06, 2023 04:08

Added July 09, 2023 at 1:00pm by Paul Allison
Title: A proposal to address a frequent request...

I sent this to Jeremie today.

We are getting a lot of requests to be able to choose more than one paragraph to use AI with, something between "Paragraph" and "Document".

I think we would have to have comments referring to multiple paragraphs. Is this possible? I've been thinking about the most elegant way to do this... and you may have other ideas, but...

Could we add a Level on the Start a New Conversation box: a button for Multiple Paragraphs.

If select a small pop-up would appear to enter the paragraph range the is request (e.g. 13 - 15).

Everything would proceed as before, both with the commenting option and with the AI options, except that that number of paragraphs would be submitted to the OpenAI API.

The results of both the comment and the AI would appear with the first paragraph that was chosen with the heading saying Paragraphs 13-15 (for example).

What do you think? Would all of this work? Or do you have other suggestions?

DMU Timestamp: July 06, 2023 04:08

Added July 10, 2023 at 5:12pm by Paul Allison
Title: Tracking and positive accountability

So I set up a tracking system for the Noyce students and will for the LUTE-STEM ones as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l4Iwi07s8HBZ1cg5jehym-8mgycuOqSETyE9yNLuV7Q/edit?usp=sharing

In talking with Jill today, managing and finding student's work is really important. I think it is for positive accountability and transparancy of expectations. So there is all of that going on.

Ah... I need to get back to the group...

DMU Timestamp: July 09, 2023 23:44

Added July 13, 2023 at 11:23am by Paul Allison
Title: Conversation about Social Annotation

There's a "bucket" of interests that a conversation brought up for me today -- all about what to DO with annotations--all the ones we put on a document across documents... and in every which way. It's all data that rarely gets used. I'll say more when I get time.

DMU Timestamp: July 11, 2023 22:25

Added July 14, 2023 at 5:35pm by Paul Allison
Title: Describing what Thinking Partners are...

So I want to get to this public piece of writing,... but maybe doing it privately like this would be a good way to start. Okay, enough throat clearing.

I want to write:

Since March we have been making Thinking Partners to harness the power of AI... to shape the output of a Large Language Model into something that we can use to support our reading and writing.

Thinking Partners are our way of ... oh yeah... making concrete / personalizing / controling / creating with / making / using AI in creative and safe ways. Something like that.

Then I want to say (all of this on the front page of NowComment) In the first few

DMU Timestamp: July 13, 2023 21:18

Added July 16, 2023 at 5:24pm by Paul Allison
Title: Explaining Thinking Partners

I wrote this for the front page of NowComment. Even though it is public -- even publicity -- it is still all a draft... testing things out. I just need to do it in public.


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We have designed these bots to be Thinking Partners who are always available to be your personal mentor, tutor, coach, teammate, student, simulator, or tool. Thinking Partners don't just correct your writing or summarize a text, ; they help you to become a stronger writer and thoughtful reader.

We have designed these bots to be Thinking Partners who are always available to be your personal mentor, tutor, coach, teammate, student, simulator, or tool. Thinking Partners don't just correct your writing or summarize a text; they help you to become a stronger writer and thoughtful reader.

NowComment's Thinking Partners shape and transform the output you receive from an LLM. This is a different experience than you get with the popular, off-the-shelf, product-oriented tools. You will be inspired by the control our Thinking Partners give you over how to integrate AI into your own creative and thinking processes.

There are over 30 Thinking Partners to choose from already (with more coming all the time)! And since there are so many, to guide your choice, we have organized them into the seven approaches for students that Dr. Ethan Mollick and Dr. Lilach Mollick describe in a recent paper, "Assigning AI," as briefly described in the next section, below.

We also invite you to make your own Thinking Partners. NowComment is a platform where we learn with and about Artificial Intelligence.


DMU Timestamp: July 13, 2023 21:18





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