"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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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