YouTube AI summaries
The best thing to happen to YouTube: Instant AI Summaries! If you want to get a summary of the YouTube video’s content, click on the “Ask” button with the Gemini logo, and a chat box opens up so you can…
Ian Tan
Key issues when learning Gen AI
I had a good conversation with someone yesterday about the state of AI training and he asked me what the key issues are that people face when learning Gen AI in my workshops. 1️⃣ The first obvious issue is tech…
A letter to my students – 5th Feb 2026
Hi all, I’m sending this email to students in all my modules this semester, so please pardon me if you are receiving this twice, or even thrice. To cut to the chase, please watch this video “The last advantage humans…
Our annual mall outing
Every year, I will bring the students from my CS2031 Integrated Marketing Communication class to Jurong Point mall for a whirlwind lesson in the marketing 4Ps (Product, Price, Place, and Promotion). We stopped by different retail shops to examine their…
Draw my playing card
I was inspired by Uli Hitzel‘s playing card visual this morning and I made my own. I need to think through the text more, but I gotta get to work!
Newsletter 55 – Prompting is writing is thinking
“Should lecturers teach students how to prompt with Gen AI?” This was a question raised during our panel session at the AI Summit, organised by the Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet (IN-cube), NTU. Prompting is basically telling the…
Reworking infographics with Google and Canva
I fell into another rabbit hole this morning. Here’s how it started: I opened up my Gmail and scanned the latest list of Amazon Kindle ebooks on sale. There was a book “Attention Span” by psychologist Gloria Mark on how…
Entering your flow state of creativity
Creativity is one of the soft skills that is often bandied about as if you could just buy it off the shelf or achieve it from attending an online course. Well, obviously not. Everyone is innately creative with the ability…
Newsletter 54 – Good things require your time
I spend a lot of time teaching people how to use Gen AI to reduce the amount of time spent on doing mundane or repetitive work. However, I often emphasise that the time saved doesn’t immediately equate to having more…
Editing NotebookLM slide decks
I HAVE THE POWER (TO EDIT NOTEBOOKLM SLIDES): While many Gen X-ers are gushing over the new Masters of the Universe movie trailer, I’m more excited by my discovery of how to edit the slide decks made by Google’s NotebookLM.…