"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
There have been some interesting posts in my feeds recently regarding the intersection of AI and the future of teaching and learning. Lance Eaton had a post last month on Jailbreaks and Teaching and Learning. He reminded us about the limitations of these tools to actually understand. He stated something to his AI agent that… Read more Teaching and Artificial Intelligence
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
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
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
Yesterday, Ethan Mollick had an interesting post in his Substack about Latent Expertise. He noted “…There are areas where AI is better than an expert human at particular tasks, and areas where it is completely useless. Instead of blanket statements, we should focus on specifics: we know that LLMs, without further development, are already useful… Read more Teaching Job Title: AI Expert
Way back in 1984, Wendy’s introduced an advertisement that in modern terms would be seen as having gone “viral.” Three elderly ladies are at a fast food counter ordering a Big Bun, and one says: As I read Educause’s article on the IDEAS Framework this past week, a similar reaction hit me. Where’s the faculty?… Read more Where’s the Faculty?
In the past, I have touched on the importance in teaching practice of asking students good questions rather than focus on rote memorization of answers. An example was my post here. Or to go back further, a question Enoch Hale raised about a Future Faculty class we both sat in (taught by Jeff Nugent): What… Read more AI and the UnGoogleable Question
Several readings that crossed my desk this week had my brain buzzing. Back in the days of the VCU Center for Teaching Excellence, I used to start the week over coffee with Jeff Nugent and Bud Deihl, and as we exchanged ideas, Bud would say “My brain is just buzzing as I try and connect… Read more Stepping Lively into the Horizon Report