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Bryan Kerr

@BryanKerrEdTech

Helping teachers and parents find easier and more meaningful uses of technology for student learning.

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"Music often triggers divergent thinking, a key element of creativity." How Music Can Energize Your Creativity psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creati…


Khanmigo is a good example of how "ChatGPT wrapper" is a gross oversimplification. A lot of thought (and testing) goes into its socratic responses that optimize for productive struggle while keeping students engaged and subscription costs affordable.

+1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering". People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an LLM in your day-to-day use. When in every industrial-strength LLM app, context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window…



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I don’t think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don’t understand or even realize exist.


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Government grants are critical to innovation: 35% of all patents by startups (and 20% of all corporate patents) cite government-sponsored research. The % of all US inventions by department: 🔫Defense: 6.2% ⚕️ HHS: 5.4% ⚡️Energy: 3.9% 🧪NSF: 2.9% 🚀NASA: 1% science.sciencemag.org/content/364/64…

emollick's tweet image. Government grants are critical to innovation: 35% of all patents by startups (and 20% of all corporate patents) cite government-sponsored research. The % of all US inventions by department:
🔫Defense: 6.2%
⚕️ HHS: 5.4%
⚡️Energy: 3.9%
🧪NSF: 2.9%
🚀NASA: 1%
science.sciencemag.org/content/364/64…
emollick's tweet image. Government grants are critical to innovation: 35% of all patents by startups (and 20% of all corporate patents) cite government-sponsored research. The % of all US inventions by department:
🔫Defense: 6.2%
⚕️ HHS: 5.4%
⚡️Energy: 3.9%
🧪NSF: 2.9%
🚀NASA: 1%
science.sciencemag.org/content/364/64…

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The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

Hearing reports that Musk’s cronies are targeting NOAA — infiltrating key systems & locking out career employees. NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research & more. Their critical work saves lives. My team and I are looking into this & we will not stand for it.



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One of the biggest impacts of AI that goes kind of unnoticed is that we’re about to see an explosion of poorly built applications. Specifically, applications built completely by AI with no thought of security whatsoever. 🧵

DanielMiessler's tweet image. One of the biggest impacts of AI that goes kind of unnoticed is that we’re about to see an explosion of poorly built applications.

Specifically, applications built completely by AI with no thought of security whatsoever.

🧵

I can't repost this enough. Just use it. The more I experiment with AI, the more use cases I find for it. Even in the cases where it doesn't work well, I still keep them in the back of my mind so I can try again when a new model is released.

People make prompting too hard. Most people would benefit from just using good enough prompting techniques. I outline some basic rules, including why “treat AI like an intern” is no longer the advice I would give new AI users. oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-star…



Really cool dendritic drainage patterns during a very low tide yesterday. Reminds me of bristlecone pines.

BryanKerrEdTech's tweet image. Really cool dendritic drainage patterns during a very low tide yesterday. Reminds me of bristlecone pines.

I figured out how to listen to NotebookLM Audio Overviews in my podcast app. Now I enjoy my walks and commutes with more purpose. You can do it too. All you need is a Dropbox or OneDrive account and PushPod, a simple (and free) web app. Quick tutorial: oftechandlearning.com/turn-notebookl…

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Turn NoteBookLM Audio Overviews into a Podcast Feed with PushPod

Turn NotebookLM audio overviews into a personal podcast feed with PushPod and boost your productivity on the go.


Generative AI models are helping realize the dream of truly interactive digital textbooks for science students. I would have loved this when I was in high school! #AI #STEMeducation

What if you could make physics diagrams come alive? At #UIST2024, we will be presenting our paper, Augmented Physics, an ML-Integrated Authoring Tool for Creating Interactive Physics Simulations from Static Diagrams Co-authors: @Freya_Wyy @nandizhang_ Jarin @rubaiat @ryosuzk



I had no idea how to make a Chrome extension. I just used AI to make a Chrome extension that lets me set the web page that loads when opening a new tab. It took me less than 15 minutes. 🤯 Anthropic's Claude also told me how to load the extension.

BryanKerrEdTech's tweet image. I had no idea how to make a Chrome extension.

I just used AI to make a Chrome extension that lets me set the web page that loads when opening a new tab. It took me less than 15 minutes.

🤯

Anthropic's Claude also told me how to load the extension.
BryanKerrEdTech's tweet image. I had no idea how to make a Chrome extension.

I just used AI to make a Chrome extension that lets me set the web page that loads when opening a new tab. It took me less than 15 minutes.

🤯

Anthropic's Claude also told me how to load the extension.

Be honest. Could you have imagined an 8-year-old building an AI chatbot a year ago? This is an amazing example of how AI is democratizing innovation—enabling more complex projects by simplifying the creation process.

What can an 8-year-old build in 45 minutes with the assistance of AI? My daughter has been learning to code with @cursor_ai and it's mind-blowing🤯 Here are highlights from her second coding session. In 45 minutes she built a chatbot powered by @CloudflareDev Workers AI 👀



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