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Per Størup Lauridsen

Per Størup Lauridsen

MSc in IT | Co-founder of Viden.AI | Head of IT and Communications at TietgenSkolen

240 posts

This week’s news: AI is already in the classroom — the rules aren’t — Illustration: Midjourney

This week’s news: AI is already in the classroom — the rules aren’t

AI is already in the classroom, but the rules are missing. As a result, decisions fall to individual teachers and students, and it takes a toll on trust. This week’s newsletter tackles the question of who actually gets to decide.

Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read

This Week's News: The Wrong Assignments — Illustration: Midjourney

This Week's News: The Wrong Assignments

Everyone is waiting for a national AI strategy. Meanwhile, high school students are holding their own AI summit, and Birgitte Vedersø is urging teachers to change their teaching now. Because the problem isn't just cheating. It's the assignments we give.

Per Størup Lauridsen • 11 min read

This week's news: Students are cheating themselves without realizing it — Illustration: Midjourney

This week's news: Students are cheating themselves without realizing it

This week's theme is mistrust. A student censors their own language, another was accused by their favorite teacher, and new data from SDU shows that students are cheating themselves without knowing it. What happens to school when no one trusts anyone?

Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read

This week's news: What do we want from AI once the safeguards are in place? — Illustration: Midjourney

This week's news: What do we want from AI once the safeguards are in place?

Following the Sorø meeting, the question is no longer just how schools curb AI-enabled cheating, but what we actually want to achieve with AI in education. This week's newsletter gathers new data, research, and debate on students' use of AI, learning, judgment, and teachers' competencies.

Per Størup Lauridsen • 13 min read

Claus Scheuer-Larsen

Claus Scheuer-Larsen

M.Sc. and Master's in Multimedia. Lecturer and responsible for pedagogical IT at Odense Technical Gymnasium, teaching communication, IT, and media subjects.

43 posts

A New Information Age: AI Search Engines

A New Information Age: AI Search Engines

AI search engines have become a part of Danish students' everyday lives, but is this a cause for concern? A new study reveals that 85% of students use ChatGPT to search for information. This development calls for new skills to navigate this digital reality.

Claus Scheuer-Larsen • 10 min read

Shared Knowledge and Philosophy of Science: Challenges in an Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Shared Knowledge and Philosophy of Science: Challenges in an Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence

As generative artificial intelligence, powered by large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot, becomes an increasingly integrated part of everyday life in educational institutions

Claus Scheuer-Larsen • 9 min read

News of the week: Danes struggle to recognize AI content

News of the week: Danes struggle to recognize AI content

Another week has passed, filled with news about artificial intelligence. We have selected the most important ones that can be related to or have significance for the education sector. The biggest story in Denmark has been the publication of the government's expert group's recommendations for developing

Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read

News of the week: TjekDet publishes AI material

News of the week: TjekDet publishes AI material

This week's newsletter delves into the latest news about artificial intelligence in education. We thought we'd touch on the launch of Copilot Pro, which is Microsoft's Office suite with artificial intelligence now available to everyone. Before investing in Copilot Pro, note that it is

Claus Scheuer-Larsen • 9 min read

Malte von Sehested

Malte von Sehested

Cand.IT i læring og organisatorisk omstilling, viceskoleleder Langebjergskolen.

4 posts

Who will take responsibility?

Who will take responsibility?

Many educational questions arise with the explosive development of systems using generative artificial intelligence. The question of who will take responsibility for implementing and managing AI in schools is pressing. But do we need to act? Should we wait and see? And last but not least, who will take responsibility?

Malte von Sehested • 5 min read

AI as a personal learning assistant — Copyright Khan Academy

AI as a personal learning assistant

In parallel with the debate on the use of AI in education and the possibility of cheating, how generative systems can support learning by acting as tutors or learning assistants has been investigated. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI recently held a conference on AI and education. Although planning

Malte von Sehested • 5 min read

Rune Schmidt

Rune Schmidt

Cand.mag. i informationsvidenskab og lektor på Skanderborg-Odder Center for Uddannelse. Underviser i informatik og innovation.

3 posts

ChatGPT as a storyteller: the impact of IT systems in informatics — Det er muligt at anvende ChatGPTs som historiefortæller i informatikfaget.

ChatGPT as a storyteller: the impact of IT systems in informatics

In informatics, students produce various digital products (referred to in the curriculum as "IT systems"). However, the course also includes an academic goal, where students must learn to reflect on how digital has affected and still affects us: The student must be able to provide examples of how

Rune Schmidt • 7 min read

Debugging with ChatGPT in Informatics

Debugging with ChatGPT in Informatics

In informatics, work is often done with so-called "worked examples". In programming, for example, videos show exemplary programming processes that students must follow and recreate until they (hopefully) slowly become able to create a new code themselves. In this process of learning the programs, there is a

Rune Schmidt • 5 min read

Domain Knowledge in Database Modeling with ChatGPT in Informatics

Domain Knowledge in Database Modeling with ChatGPT in Informatics

One of the most important aspects of the high school informatics subject is getting students to understand and create digital artifacts. The process of creating digital artifacts often includes a modeling process – a process in which reality (often called a domain) must be analyzed and abstracted and then "translated&

Rune Schmidt • 3 min read

Christian Strøm Lau

Christian Strøm Lau

2 posts

OpenAI: Official guide to using ChatGPT in education - How can we use it in Denmark?

OpenAI: Official guide to using ChatGPT in education - How can we use it in Denmark?

On August 31, the creators behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, published a guide for educators with suggestions on how to use ChatGPT in teaching. This article has taken a critical, constructive look at the possibilities from a Danish teaching perspective. The guide for OpenAI educators includes examples of how K-12 teachers

Christian Strøm Lau • 4 min read

What should generative language models be used for in teaching?

What should generative language models be used for in teaching?

In an opinion piece in the trade magazine Folkeskolen, CFU consultant Mikkel Aslak Koudal Andersen writes that it is time for schools and teachers to start relating to generative language models, to create their own experiences and to talk to each other and with students about the groundbreaking technology. In

Christian Strøm Lau • 5 min read

Niels Beck

Niels Beck

2 posts

OpenAI: Official guide to using ChatGPT in education - How can we use it in Denmark?

OpenAI: Official guide to using ChatGPT in education - How can we use it in Denmark?

On August 31, the creators behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, published a guide for educators with suggestions on how to use ChatGPT in teaching. This article has taken a critical, constructive look at the possibilities from a Danish teaching perspective. The guide for OpenAI educators includes examples of how K-12 teachers

Christian Strøm Lau • 4 min read

What should generative language models be used for in teaching?

What should generative language models be used for in teaching?

In an opinion piece in the trade magazine Folkeskolen, CFU consultant Mikkel Aslak Koudal Andersen writes that it is time for schools and teachers to start relating to generative language models, to create their own experiences and to talk to each other and with students about the groundbreaking technology. In

Christian Strøm Lau • 5 min read

Jennifer E. Burke-Hansen

Jennifer E. Burke-Hansen

Teacher, School Counselor, & Lifestyle Coach for Teachers

1 post

Seriously, I’m Too Old For This “CHAT”!

Opinion piece

Seriously, I’m Too Old For This “CHAT”!

ChatGPT – Love it? Hate it? Still wondering what it is? This open AI language model chatbot was launched in November 2022 and has been changing the world one chat at a time! And since its release, newer versions and other players have been added to the AI Chat traffic. And

Jennifer E. Burke-Hansen • 7 min read