"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
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
I have been posting the past few weeks about my exploration of AI…in a way, of trying to make meaning from all the data I have been reading. So I noticed this image from Said Ebead on LinkedIn this weekend…and it brought to mind the difference between data and meaning. Unrelated…yet maybe not…was an article… Read more From Data to Meaning using AI
I continue to look back at some of my old posts and reflect on how they might be recast for 2024 with the emergence of AI. On of my posts from 2016 was entitled “Overcoming Old.Edu” – a play on the title of a jazz recording by Euge Groove. The blog post from 2016 discussed… Read more Overcoming Old.Edu Again
Back in 2008, in the early days of my blog posting, I wrote a post entitled “The Gold Standard for eLearning.” I had just returned from the ITC 2008 conference, and was energized by the key note presentation by Patrica McGee, Associate Professor of IT and Program Coordinator for Adult and Higher Education at the… Read more Is AI the New Gold Standard?
Back in 2008, as I was starting to blog, one of my first posts took exception with the term “digital native.” I noted “I often try to stretch my students or fellow faculty to try out Web 2.0 tools when they feel that they are doing a perfectly adequate job teaching in a non-wired world.… Read more From an Evolving Digital Native
As many of you know, I have not blogged in a year…and I only blogged 4 times in 2023 and twice in 2022. I was facing the re-emergence of my prostate cancer after 18 years in remission, as well as breast cancer diagnoses in both of my twin daughters. That shifted my focus to taking… Read more Educated Bravery