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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:

The Conversation - link: https://theconversation.com/how-do-you-feel-about-doing-exams-our-research-unearthed-4-types-of-test-takers-261552 If you had to do a test, how would you respond? Would you relish the chance to demonstrate your knowledge? Or worry you were about to fall short of the mark and embarrass yourself? Research tells us students’ attitudes towards taking tests or doing exams can have an impact on their performance . This is because what they think about them

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Two recent gems of educational research are of immediate relevance to all teachers and especially those in remote and regional settings....