Peter Beens
The ACSE Conference 2025 offers a rich variety of sessions across several key strands, including Computer Science, Computer Technology, Pedagogical Topics, and Teaching Technology and the Skilled Trades (TAS1O/TAS2O).
Continue reading “ACSE Conference 2025”This post has been created using my Peter’s Visionary Debaters CustomGPT with the prompt “Debate the merits of using CamelCase vs all lowercase for hashtags/tags in social media posts and task management software.”
With the integration of technology into education, tools such as Google’s NotebookLM offer new ways to simplify complex topics for students. This AI-powered tool helps teachers break down dense information, making it easier for students to grasp challenging subjects, particularly when engaging with current events or multifaceted issues.
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Welcome to an experiment using my new “Peter’s Visionary Debaters” Custom GPT, available at https://chatgpt.com/g/g-j7VppiEeO-peter-s-visionary-debaters.
Continue reading “Philosophers Debate: Navigating the Intersection of AI and Education”Welcome to the latest addition to Ontario’s educational landscape—ACSE-K8, an interactive, private email list designed exclusively for K-8 educators. Whether you’re teaching in public or private schools, or you’re a consultant in this field, ACSE-K8 offers a unique platform to integrate coding into your classrooms.
Continue reading “Unveiling ACSE-K8: An Innovative Email List for Ontario’s K-8 Educators in Coding and Technology”Ontario’s teachers unions have rejected a request from the Ministry of Education to extend the working period for retired teachers, emphasizing the need for the government to address staffing shortages more effectively.
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I love ChatGPT. I pretty much use it all the time now instead of Google. So when I turned to it to ask the simple question “When does spring arrive?”, I was met with this overly complex response:
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For those of you with a ChatGPT Plus account, here are the public custom GPTs I have created. Some were created primarily for my own personal productivity, while others were designed to benefit educators.
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Just for fun I wanted to see if I could create a custom GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) that could use The Achievement Chart for the Grade 10 Computer Studies Course to assess assignments from any of the ICS Computer Studies courses.
The instructions I gave it were:
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