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Building Classroom Community and Communicating Care To help students build relationships with a subset of classmates, I could… Put students in small groups on the first day of class, giving the group a social ice-breaker and/or a collective task for piquing their interest in the course topic. B...

I'm baaack after 7 days of holiday! 👋 Here's how I catch up on AI in just 2 hours (including a link to my exact prompt) I've just returned from 7 days in a sleepy country cottage in Norfolk with my family and the dog.  Lovely long walks on beaches and in forests Soothing tired screen-frazzled eyes with books Stuffing my face with fresh farm shop food Random day-drinking over giggly board games ...absolutely lush. It's also so nice to be reminded that I do have a personality and stuff to talk about still outside of work. This Founder life can be all-consuming, and it's so easy to forget yourself, isn't it? Anyway, getting back up to speed always feels like I'm standing on a bridge, about to jump onto a bullet train to fight baddies or something. But I've now got the AI catch-up bit down to a fine art. 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝟭: 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳 I'll spend the first hour perusing the top AI news creators* across the various channels: • Matt Wolfe – YouTube • The AI Advantage – YouTube • Allie K Miller – LinkedIn • Ruben Hassid – LinkedIn • Rowan Cheung – X & Newsletter (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯) • Ethan Mollick – X & Substack (𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘜𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨) • Andrew Ng – LinkedIn • Marketing AI Institute – Spotify • Ben Tossell – Newsletter (𝘉𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘉𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴) 💡 Top tip: If there's lots going on I'll pop a list of URLs into a NotebookLM knowledge hub and then ask for all of the key points. 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝟮: 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 All the AI chatbots now have this, but so few people seem to know it's there.  To find it: ChatGPT - Click the plus sign - Deep Research Claude - Research button under the chat box Gemini  - Toggle button next to plus sign - Deep Research Copilot - Agents - Built by Microsoft - Researcher Then I'll prompt to gather all the news while I go off and have a coffee. My prompt is too long for this post so I've put it into a G doc for you: https://lnkd.in/eK75vgX6 (Make sure you add the date into the bit I've highlighted yellow - LLMs don't tend to know the date.) It isn't instant - it'll take about 10 minutes. Then click into each link and have a better read. 💡 Top tip: Amend the prompt to focus on your specific industry or function, add trusted sources, etc.  Make it yours! And that's it - 2 hours and you'll find yourself up to date on what's happening. You'll notice a woeful lack of female AI news creators in there, apart from Allie.  Can I please get some recommendations for females who are quick off the mark with AI updates? PS If I started to report on the AI news on YouTube, would that be something you'd watch? Maybe a rundown of what's happened that week? | 113 comments on LinkedIn

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