Austin Pack

Language learning and teaching, AI, and motivation. Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University-Hawaii

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@athyuttamre @OpenAI Edu users?

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@TheMormonNews 😂

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@TheMormonNews Do you know how they divided the meetings up?

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@gdb Educator here 👋🏼. I use lots of customgpts for my students. They all stopped working last week. Can this please be fixed?

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@OpenAI Edu?

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@TheMormonNews Keep me posted!

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@kimmonismus *uneducated or improper use of AI*

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@kimmonismus Language educator and computer assisted language learning researcher here 👋🏼. Using AI to complete learning opportunities for you leads to enfeeblement. Using AI as a personal tutor to create meaningful practice opportunities is how it should be used in education.

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@elder_plinius Language educator and computer assisted language learning researcher here 👋🏼. Of course using AI to do the writing for you leads to enfeeblement.

Most students use it wrong. Use AI as a personal tutor that creates practice opportunities. Don't use it to complete them.

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@itsalexvacca If you have AI do the work for you then it leads to enfeeblement.

AI can be used effectively to augment learning if it is used in ways in line with sound theory and practice (acting as a tutor that scaffolds learning).

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@emollick Not everyone has access to the latest models. Prompt engineering is more necessary for less capable (read generally free) models.

Many people don't understand basics like hallucinations and limited context windows.

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

This is the most clear & important explanation about how LLMs work. Remarkably, there are still people who claim that AI can’t produce anything original because “it just predicts the next word.” Listen to Ilya to understand what “understand” really means.

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Read my thoughts:
https://t.co/dl1vHdp1iJ

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Veo 3 for language learning? Some early tests!

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New post! Experimenting with AI generated Videos for Language Learning!
https://t.co/dl1vHdp1iJ

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@MatthewBerman Read the real Dao de Jing first!