"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
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
I was visiting family last week (and so no blogging), and a LOT has happened while I was gone – Bryan Alexander is already remarking on the departure of Biden from the presidential race… I try and stay non-political in this blog, so I will not dive in to this issue. My focus in this… Read more Humanism and AI
It has been five years since Mary Meeker released a BOND report on technology. I had frequently used her reports over the years in both my Masters and doctorate technology courses, and had previously blogged about several of her Internet status reports, first in 2012, then in 2017, and finally in 2018. In that last… Read more New Meeker Report on AI
Now that I am retired, it has been interesting to look back at my early 2008 posts. One post was “Only Thing To Fear” where I discussed the challenge of teaching a Masters class in edtech when all of my students worked in schools that blocked access to many of the websites we were exploring…including… Read more Fear of AI
Over the years, I have returned several times to the concept of “truth”. In 2008, I blogged about “Truth 2.0,” where I explored the challenges of determining truth and reliability of information in the age of Web 2.0, prompted by Monica Hesse’s Washington Post article entitled “Truth: Can You Handle It?”. I discussed how students… Read more Truth 4.0
Seven years ago, I was teaching ILD-831 – Leadership and Technology- for Creighton University. This was an elective in their Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Leadership…and one of my favorite courses! I posted a blog that noted that Jane Hart’s 2016 image for her update on Top Learning Tools captured the essence of my course in a… Read more My Old Tech Course is Old
Last week in a Zoom call, a great question was asked…what is the best way to organize resources on AI by Centers for Teaching in higher education? It is an important question in that GenAI is being adopted at rates not seen since 20 years ago when one looked at the rate of adoption of… Read more How to Organize AI Resources?
One of my favorite authors is David Poyer. Dave was a year ahead of me at Annapolis, and in my first (or Plebe) year, he was a third-class midshipman in the same company I was in – 8th Company. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1971, and later received a master’s degree from George… Read more Poyer AI Book
A year and a half ago, my wife and I moved from Virginia to Massachusetts to be nearer our twin daughters. After a year in New England, one begins to sense the ghost of Robert Frost near every stone fence! Which got me thinking…what would Robert Frost think about GenAI today? So I asked Claude…and… Read more AI through the Eyes of Robert Frost
Back in 2017, I had a post entitled “Defining Online: Ask the Machines?“. The post discussed the implications of AI developing knowledge that humans may not fully comprehend, based on Dave Weinberger’s Backchannel article. Key points (as summarized by Claude for me) included: Machine learning was creating complex models beyond human understanding, challenging our traditional approach… Read more Updating Ask the Machines