Today, my colleague Dave Rutledge and I did an activity with our undergraduate educational technology class. We wanted to briefly discuss some equity issues as well as give them a chance to try out the new OpenAI image generator–and hopefully learn something along the way. Content wise, we wanted to introduce them to the “digital […]
This morning, I gave a webinar for NMSU’s Let’s Talk Online Teaching Series. They asked me to present on a blog post I wrote last fall about what I was noticing with my students’ uses of AI. It was a fun presentation to put together, letting me combine ideas I’ve had in different areas of […]
Why this blog post? Because I want to share the comic I, as “Academic Adventuress” made with ChatGPT. There is probably some deeper thinking that could happen…but it’s Sunday. So here you go: How I Made It: A few weeks ago, I was pulling together all the documents for my 3rd year review–I have to […]
The other day, I asked my students to write a song about what they learned that day. In 5 minutes. And yes, they could use AI. A few minutes later, I had a playlist of AI-generated songs—different styles and lyrics, but quite polished (see here and here, for example). We had fun. And now I […]
At my house we have a Valentine’s Fairy 🧚🏼 (also a Christmas Eve Fairy, but that’s for another day)! This year, I have a child in my home for the first time and am excited to introduce her to this special fairy. As I was preparing, I decided I wanted to crochet a Valentine’s dog. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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This week, I asked my students to draft a “learning, teaching, and technology statement.” Their thoughts and insights pushed me to think more about my own beliefs. Although I have been exploring the relationships between learning, creativity, design, and teaching, I hadn’t ever articulated where “technology” fit in. (A bit ironic, seeing that I am […]