"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?
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
FastCompany magazine has a neat video about the “collaborative space that thrives on crazy…” – Google Garage. Think about the implications of this as a “learning space” at a university or college! I am gobsmacked! (…and I love all the Google Glasses that appear in this video) 🙂
For six years now, Jane Hart has annually compiled the Top 100 Tools for Learning. She does this by crowdsourcing the list and having learning professionals in the field provide their top ten tools. One can submit their top ten tools via Twitter or Facebook or a survey. The 2011 list has had over 160,000 views on her… Read more Top Tools for Learning (at the present moment)
. For the third year in a row, I had the opportunity to attend the University of Mary Washington‘s annual Faculty Academy with my colleagues Jeff Nugent and Bud Deihl. This was the fifteenth year in which UMW faculty have shared their creative ways of using technology in teaching and learning. It has been interesting… Read more Reflections on Faculty Academy 2010 – Part One
This Saturday, I will be doing some guest lecturing in our Fast Track Executive MBA “mini-camp” here at VCU. They have asked me to demonstrate “collaborative software.” I am looking forward to this session, but the language they have used demonstrates how the world is evolving. We really do not use “software” anymore for collaboration… Read more Web Collaboration