"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Back in my teaching days, when having my students analyze search engines, I used to suggest that one interesting exercise was to Google themselves and see what resulted. Of course, this was back before Google became, as Cory Doctorow so eloquently put it, “enshittified.” This week, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols had an interesting article entitled “Guide… Read more What Does AI Know About Me?
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
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
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
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
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
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?