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Maybe hearing about the staggering environmental cost of using generative AI has promoted you to read this article. Knowing how it works is the key to understanding why these two simple suggestions can significantly reduce your environmental impact when using Generative AI. Before others say it, early estimates of energy use are likely to be 10 times higher than reality and reasonable AI use is a small fraction of your entire energy budget if you live in a developed country.

AI takes ages to generate an image and it is still not quite right  (despite consuming a bunch of electricity). When you ask for a revision it starts from scratch and sometimes things that were  OK, not longer are. Switch to using Procedural Image generation . OK, its NOT good for generating photo-real images, what it is  great for are graphics and diagrams - things teachers use to explain concepts and ideas. Before we jump into the what and how , here are some advantages:

It has been a joy—and a genuine professional privilege—to work alongside giants in educational research to explore a question that’s...

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Many thanks to all participants and to Professor Danny Liu from The University of Sydney and Leon Furze from the University of Melbourne...

The Australia Framework for Generative AI in Schools has done the heavy lifting. Implementing this framework in your school is where it...

Start learning-by-doing yourself, because education is the antidote to fear (that's why we are teachers, remember). Get to know the beast...

Assessing student learning differently

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