ChatGPT Doesn’t Have a User’s Manual. Let’s Not Create One.

Note: This is the next post in the shared blogging experiment with Punya Mishra and Nicole Oster. This time we question what and how we should be teaching about generative AI. The core idea and first draft came from me, to which Punya and Nicole added revisions and edits. The final version emerged through a […]

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Not for the Truth of the Matter

Note: Featured image made with Adobe Firefly 3. I’ve written a fair number of posts lately where I’ve explored my experiences with large language models, like ChatGPT, and questioned whether what was happening was a “new” type of learning or simply an amplified or enhanced process that is basically the same as the other learning […]

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Learning with ChatGPT

*Cover image of me learning with a computer in a fairy tale created (obviously) with AI…Adobe Firefly, to be exact. I’ve been thinking a lot about what learning with generative AI is or could be. Is it different from other ways we learn? Does it call for a whole different theory of learning, or is […]

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Metaphors, Minds, Technology & Learning

Note: The shared blogging experiment with Punya Mishra and Nicole Oster continues. This time we delve into metaphors of the mind, technology and generative AI. The core idea and first draft came from me, to which Punya contributed a substantial rewrite. The final version emerged through a collaborative process between all three. The featured image above was created […]

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Why are we surprised?

Note: This is the first post in an experiment at shared blogging by Punya Mishra, Nicole Oster and myself. Over the past months we have found ourselves engaged in some fascinating conversations around genAI, education, bias and more. This shared blogging experiment is an attempt to take some of these conversations and move them into this sharable […]

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The Battle of LLMs and ELLs

An important feature of a learning machine is that its teacher will often be very largely ignorant of quite what is going on inside. A. M. Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950 Last week at the SITE conference, I talked with Katrina Tour from Monash University about her work with refugees in Australia. She is […]

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SITE 2024!
Beat BAIS: A Dystopian Musical, Coming Soon to a School Near You

I thoroughly enjoyed attending the 2024 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education conference in Las Vegas, Nevada last week. Great people, great ideas. New and old friends. A quick recap: Friends! The best part of this conference was meeting up with some great friends from Arizona State, New Mexico State, and Monash Universities. (including […]

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Creative Exploration and March Madness

GenAI is weird. It is not human, but it can sound like it. It is very confident in its errors but, when confronted, quick to apologize…and repeat the same errors again. It could be seen as a synthesis of the internet (good, bad, and ugly) but with human guardrails that attempt to fix the ugly […]

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My Current Thoughts about AI (In Video Form)
Stranger Skills: Using Generative AI in Teaching and Learning

Over the past few months, I’ve been attempting to bring together the thoughts and ideas I’ve had about generative AI- what my findings on bias and my AI explorations means for using it in teaching and learning. As I was preparing for a new class this week, I decided to create a video about where […]

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Stranger Skills: Guidelines for Learning and Teaching with AI

Lately I’ve felt like I’m living in parallel universes. On one hand, I am trying to get the word out of the bias in GenAI, the problems that can cause, and the caution we should be using when these technologies are applied in educational contexts. For example, ChatGPT 3.5 provides lower average writing scores when […]

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