Group reads – Using Barbara Fister’s Principled Uncertainty
It’s been both a humbling and exciting prospect to return to the face to face classroom. I’m teaching two versions of the same course ‘Digital Technology and Social Media’ for the faculty of education...
View ArticleConfronting uncertainty with Truth OR Why use metaphors?
In honour of the release of Martin Weller’s book Metaphors of Edtech, I thought I’d address one of the issues that keeps coming up in my classes that I’m teaching this term. The difference between an...
View ArticleChatGPT search – Autotune for knowledge
Lots of interesting conversation going on in my community right now about the implications of ChatGPT style tools for the education system. Will students use it to cheat? Will we incorporate it in our...
View ArticleAdapting your syllabus to an online content/AI generated content world
I did another presentation on campus yesterday talking about what it means that students can now generate answers to assignment questions. I often find that writing out some concepts before a...
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10 things I think I might think about AI for teaching and learning
I’ve been adding thoughts to this blog since 2005. I come here to get my ideas sorted out and to give me both something to link to for those ideas as well as to give me a sense of where my thinking...
View ArticleDoes it matter if we call talking to algorithms ‘Prompt Engineering’?
I’m facilitating week 3 of our Digital Engagement course tonight (which is the third course in our Humanizing Digital Learning Micro program) and a big part of what I’m talking about is how to find...
View ArticleTeaching with AI checklist
I pulled together my notes from the last 9 months of doing sessions on Generative AI and compiled them yesterday. Shout out to Nick Baker for adding some things, editing some things and overall making...
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A letter to my students about why I disagree with Paul Kirschner about the...
Context – my students learning to consider the viability of Learning Styles Had a great time with my ed tech pre-service students last week. We were learning about searching (the web) and research and...
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Why I’m advising that people stop assigning essays, and it’s not just because...
I’m closing in on 20 sessions I’ve done in the last year that were, in some way, related to the issue of generative AI. Actually, it’s probably more than 20. They have moved from ‘omg, there’s this...
View ArticleWe can’t teach humility in our schools, but really need to.
This is my first post talking about some of the ideas in my new book Learning in a Time of Abundance. The book is the result of almost 20 years of writing, talking and thinking about how the Internet...
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