Humanoid plastic tobot with overly sized head peers at a chalkboard as if pretending to be thinking.

Neoteny is For Robots

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

Right out of the text Stephen J. Gould’s Ontogeny and Phylogeny we have a juvenile styled plastic robot obviously “thinking” or a simulation there of, full on case…

5 different images of robots and humans acting ffriendly in modern glass office buildings, malls, high high tech classrooms with text like \

Very Saskatchewan Robots in Non Prairie Settings

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

From the Artificial Intelligence in Saskatchewan promotional web site the future of happy humans and friendly robots together in locations that are hard to find in this area….

Small white, blue, and orange robot standing in a futuristic blue room with teal columns and a gold geometric structure.

Your School Needs an AI Masot?

(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

For @kfitz who’s university is seeking a bot mascot Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz@hcommons.social My institution has a presidential initiative entitled “AI-Ready [MASCOT]s.” And this is the very image I…

A white humanoid robot with a fully featured but plastic face looks directly at the viewer, as if asked to fill out a billion TPS reports. Its back is to a bank of windows and 2 other robots at nearby tables. All are typing on their laptops.

The Robot Workplace

(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

My first reaction was to wonder why these robots appear to need Google Glasses. It took me a few minutes to wonder why they need laptops, or desks….

Headline text reads How is AI changing the classroom: classroom advice. Two students in front row with laptops open and in front fo the room is a blackboard with hand writing. The change here is the teacher is a robot with a hand in the air.

I Can See The Change in the Classroom: Everything has Changed

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

As language only an LLM could proffer “AI is quickly becoming part of our everyday lives and can add some new factors to teaching. But what is AI…

Large blue tinted humanoid head with glow lines surrounded by bubles of everything from books and globes and footballs and butterflies towers over rows if kids passively sitting at desks each with a large open book.

This Educational Paradigm so New it is Shining Blue

(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

The more I see these images the more they just blur into one pile if blue tinted rubbish. Does not the sameness bother anyone else but me?  For…

On right a yound woman seeminbly in deep thought types on a keypad. Just opposite on left is a large header, ghost like robot head seemingly staring at her.

Bubbly Pal

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

This is the supreme relationship with the machine. Note the typical blue glow colors. but also the Stephen J Gould style neoteny of the robot with the large,…

Results of Google image search on AI education that show a dominance of blue tinted images of robots as gteachers and mainly in traditional classrooms or standing in front of chalkboards.

The More the AI Changes the More the Metaphors Remain Sad

(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

With all the advances of AI image generators, the presence of robots remains firmly planted in classrooms. Maybe more sad than the robotic metaphor as the even older…

Graphic style classroom seen with rows of students in tables stretching back to end of large hall. In the front a young male in glasses stares to his side at a plastic large robot who seems to be looking at the human the same way.

That Dude in My Class Looks Weird

(3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

In many ways this image fits well for my friend Bryan’s newsletter post Teaching with AI: strategies against cheating – a human student and a robot stand in…

Robot seated at table with gaze focused on pad of paper and poised with pen in hand. The scene is in what looks like a library with many rows of shelves.

Robot Writes in the Library

(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

Who chose on an ACM opinion piece of the state of copyright for GenAI content a likely generated  image of a robot writing with a pen in the…

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