In this issue

• Koala Teachers Family FB Weekly Recap

• Review: Koala Bear Starters a Koala Go Playground

• Canva and Wordwall, organizing my virtual classroom hand-in-hand

• What’s on my workbench these days?

• Editorial: Virtual Immortality

• Interesting Links

Facebook

😑📘Koala Teachers Family recap

• New Koala Go student manuals in different languages

• New tutorial videos on Koala Go Whiteboard, Co-browser and Playground

• New Playground from Emily Radecki - Rose Land

Koala Go Playground

 🛝🛠️Review: Koala Bear Starters a Koala Go Playground

This was the first Playground I purchased and I’m still using it!

Koala Bear Starters

Teaching Tools

👩🏻‍🏫🛠️Canva and Wordwall, organizing my virtual classroom hand-in-hand

This is one of the ways I keep my online classroom organized and ready to go for most scenarios.

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Be organized

Koala Go Playgrounds

🐨🛝What’s on my workbench these days?

What’s under these covers?

Editorial

✍️🃏Editorial: Virtual Immortality 

Maybe I shouldn’t be thinking about things like this, but I don’t seem to be able to avoid it.

My first exposure to this topic was from a very old science fiction novel called “Neuromancer” I think. Anyway, the hero of this story needed help for a project from a certain infamous hacker, who it turns out, was dead. Now it gets interesting, before his death the hacker was captured and his brain had been “downloaded” onto a “construct” and his knowledge and skills could be accessed by plugging this device into a computer and talking to the construct just like a real person.

Back to today and our near future (maybe). With the rise and exponential improvement of Deep Fake technology, it should be reasonable to assume that If I have enough data available of myself (videos, blog articles, conversations, etc) that a very convincing Deep Fake of myself could be constructed. What’s the point? We already have a real me…and some people would argue that even one is too many.

Well, I started my family very late in life and I (the real me) might not actually be around for advice or stories or even simple conversations when I’m needed or wanted by future generations. Or…maybe I will be (sort of)…

A Large Language Model (LLM) trained on my data could very easily look, sound and think like me. So if a grandson or great grandson wants to hear a story or ask advice about life, I will sort of be there.

From that stage it’s actually a relatively small leap to embedding that Deep Fake LLM into a humanoid robot. I (or my construct) could be building boats, growing a garden, babysitting…

A possible downside from the earlier mentioned novel was that once the construct hacker learned that he was indeed a construct and dead, he only agreed to help with the project if he was deleted after completion, which he was.

I think we will be asking and answering some pretty strange questions soon, like:

Would you willingly become a construct?

Links

🧐⛓️‍💥Interesting Links

These are links that I found interesting but haven’t written about, there is simply too much happening these days.

Enjoy!!

👋🏾Well that’s it for this issue

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