"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
It has been quite a week in America, with basically half the voting public happy that Trump was re-elected and half (my half) wondering how a convicted felon could possibly be elected. I thought Robert Reich provided an insightful reflection in “The Lesson.” Reich dismissed several conventional interpretations of Trump’s victory over Harris, including claims about… Read more Economics and AI in Post Election America
Cory Doctorow had a post the other day entitled “You Should Be Using an RSS Reader”…and guess what? My RSS reader – Feedly – picked up this article because my reader subscribes to Stephen Downes, and he had a post about it. Which was precisely Cory’s point! Rather than letting others tell you what to… Read more What Comes Around … RSS
Over the past five months, I have been exploring GenAI and co-working with these platforms in my blogging. Most of my posts have been pretty upbeat regarding partnering with GenAI for teaching and learning. Some recent posts by people I respect have me reconsidering my rosy scenarios…though not tossing them out altogether. I think the… Read more What is Effective Use of GenAI in Teaching?
My weekly EDUCAUSE newsletter listed a 2023 article by Florence Martin and Albert Ritzhaupt entitled “IDEAS Framework for Teaching Online.” I remember reading it last year. The IDEAS (Inclusion, Design, Engagement, Evaluation, Assessment, and Support) Framework is a suggested comprehensive guide for online teaching and learning. It was developed based on extensive research and expert… Read more Some Ideas about IDEAS
Retirement has brought with it the luxury of time devoted to reading. While I enjoy both science fiction and mysteries, I also read history and non-fiction books as well. I am currently reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yural Noah Harari (2014). Although it has been out a decade, I still find it… Read more Impactful Books
In my last post, I noted that I would be interested to see how my list compared to Jane’s 2024 list. Since 2007, Jane Hart has been compiling an annual Top Tools for Learning List from the results of an open survey. As she notes, these Top Tools lists “…now constitute an important and interesting… Read more Top Tools for Learning 2024
One of my favorite lists over the years has been Jane Hart’s wonderful curation of Top Tools in Learning. I last submitted my annual list in 2021, before my cancer returned and I retired from teaching. In fact, in September 2021, I reflected on my submission while discussing the 15th annual Top Tools for Learning… Read more Another Look at Tools
My wife and I were house sitting and dog sitting the past two weeks, so a break from blogging. However, today I read an excellent post by Dr. Philippa Hardman entitled “The Post-AI Instructional Designer.” Several points struck me. Hardman explored the evolving relationship between instructional designers (IDs) and AI, contrasting two models: the Delegation… Read more Nice Take on Post AI Instructional Designer
Gary Ackerman had a post this week in which he took another look at his understanding of TCPK, introduced by Mishra and Koehler in 2006. This framework explored the combinations of technological, pedagogical and content knowledge, with the sweet spot being TCPK – Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. I have been blogging about TCPK since 2008,… Read more TCPK and GenAI
A few weeks ago, Educause published an article by Dale Pike, Brooke McGowin, Aaron Bond, Larry Cox II and Daron Williams entitled “Framing Generative AI in Education with the GenAI Intent and Orientation Model.” The article discussed the potential of generative AI (GenAI) in education and introduced the above framework to help understand and implement… Read more Enhancing the GenAI Intent and Orientation Model