I have the honor of sharing some ideas about teaching, learning, and AI with New Mexican Educators Rising members at the 2024 Conference. Here are some concepts and resources that might be useful. Ideas for using LLMs in Learning Ideas for using LLMS in Teaching Additional Resources Videos Santa Fe Institute: The Future of Artificial […]
Access resources here! Bad Audio of All Presentations: Bias in LLMs: It’s Not What You Think Full Paper: Warr, Melissa and Oster, Nicole Jakubczyk and Isaac, Roger, Implicit Bias in Large Language Models: Experimental Proof and Implications for Education (November 6, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4625078 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4625078 Beyond Cheating: Using LLMs in Teaching and Learning Higher Ed […]
*Cover image created with ChatGPT4, Dall-E3, and Adobe Firefly I recently had a discussion about “generative learning.” It was a phrase I hadn’t heard before. A bit of research and I found it that it is, indeed, a thing–and it was a thing before the generative AI shockwave of 2022. Although it was interesting to […]
While on a walk the other day, I was listening to a (rebroadcasted) episode of RadioLab: During the episode, they discuss Benford’s Law–that in many contexts, there are more numbers that start with lower digits (1, 2, etc.) than higher digits (8, 9, etc.): This law holds for river length, population growth, stock prices, and […]
Cover image courtesy of Punya Mishra We (Punya Mishra, Rezwana Islam, and I) just published a new article in the Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education. The article considers the meaning of TPACK in a world of generative AI. We particularly wanted to emphasize the need of teachers to develop contextual knowledge. It was […]
Welcome to the world of generative AI. Actually, you’ve already been living in it–but its presence is becoming such that soon you will not be able to ignore it. A month or so ago, I attended a faculty professional development session on ChatGPT. The big question was how do we prevent students from cheating with […]