In This Episode: Zippy internet. ChatGPT can’t do math? Authenticators, and broken school laptops.
This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
- 0:00 LN: My zippy Internet 800 down… 40 up.
- 1:25 identifying different choke points.
- 3:00 GR: Math computations and programming, periods and commas!
- The trickiness of software updates
- 9:45 ChatGPT Can’t do math? But convincingly…
- 14:00 Don’t rely on ChatGPT
- 17:00 ChatGPT as tech support. Wrong answers faster.
- 22:10 LN: Google’s 2FA
- 24:00 Authy
- 25:10 Update – Google Authenticator now backs up your 2FA codes to the cloud
- 26:00 Token, 1password
- 29:40 GR: School laptops from just a few years ago are already useless.
- Schools bought millions of Chromebooks in 2020 — and three years later, they’re starting to break
- 31:00 So what is the best way to bring tech to the classroom?
- Chromebooks are designed as cheap consumer devices. Schools need “heavy” commercial ones.
- 34:00 Long-lasting parts, easily repairable. Not fancy.
- 37:00 A web-based system that can be used on virtually any device.
- 39:00 Issues with connectivity.
Ain’t it Cool
- 46:00 LN: “Ain’t it meh” -> Colossus sequels
- 48:00 LN: Picard, of course (& Mandalorian)
- 49:50 GR: The Bobiverse
Fake references in Chat GPT could be a good way for teachers to check for cheaters using it, or just making things up.
If you give it a list of references and ask if they are real, will it tell you the ones that were made up?
There’ve been attempts to detect Chat GPT generated text, and results have been mixed. One more things teachers have to worry about. (I don’t know that chat GPT would tell you what is and isn’t real — I wouldn’t trust it.) -L
My son and I have been making our way through the Bobiverse series (just started book 3) and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Glad to hear that it is continuing on past the trilogy. I don’t recall if I originally got directed to the series from here, or whether it was something from Goodreads after I read him Hail Mary.
I work in a school district that has provided computers to students on a 1:1 basis for 10 years now. That durability issue is definitely a growing concern. We’ve been an Apple district from the start, with iPads for the younger grades and MacBook Airs for older ones. We’ve noticed an dramatic increase in damage repairs needed over the past 5 years, so starting before the 2020 influx. It seems that, just like it “feels”, they just don’t make things like they used to. We are going to start changing to using iPads for all grades, because they have become much more capable over these recent years, and the repair costs are drastically lower.