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MI OER Keynote Text: The Art of Open Resources, Pedagogy, and Practice: a balancing act in three parts
I was asked to deliver the keynote address for the MI OER conference on Sept. 20th, 2024. This post is adapted from my notes after the talk. Some parts have been omitted or changed due to the format change. The references have been embedded as hypertext throughout the text and the longer reference list is…
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Looking for ChatGPT Teaching Advice? Good Pedagogy is Nothing New
There has been a lot of advice around teaching since ChatGPT was released in November. As we are approaching fall term I wanted to curate some of it but also consider it from a critical lens. I agree with much of the advice out there, but find that what I agree with is often nothing…
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Hot(take) Chatbot Summer: Considering Value Propositions
They say… one of the keys to successful blogging is regular and systematic publishing of posts. Well dear reader, it has been six months since my last entry and alas I must admit I’m just not that kind of blogger… but here we are. The last few posts here really took off and far surpassed…
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Prior to (or instead of) using ChatGPT with your students
I have been thinking, reading, and writing a lot about OpenAI’s ChatGPT product over the last month. I’ve been writing from the perspective of instructional design/faculty development/edtech mostly in higher education, though I did dive into a bit of K-12 (which is totally out of my element). I understand the allure of the tool and…
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In Defense of “Banning” ChatGPT
The current big news on ChatGPT is around the decisions by K-12 school districts to pause, think, push back and sometimes “ban” ChatGPT. I’ve mostly heard about NYC Department of Ed because they have actually put a “ban” in place but other districts are now considering their approach. What does it mean to “ban” a…
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ChatGPT and Good Intentions in Higher Ed
I’m frustrated by the conversation around ChatGPT in higher education. So far, the conversation has been largely about using the tool as a text generator and fears around how students can use it for “cheating”. I tend to think this is only the tip of the iceberg and it frustrates me – this convo is…
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ChatGPT ID/FacDev?
Many of those of us who work in higher ed have been thinking about ChatGPT since OpenAI dropped free access to it at the end of November. The fancy new chatbot which can generate essays, responses to qualitative quiz questions, and discussion board prompts has everyone thinking about academic integrity and “cheating”. The tech has…
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Is a space
For some time now I’ve used “Is a liminal space” as my tagline and it has always intrigued me how people latch on to the word “liminal” in that little phrase. Asking me what it means and why I identify with it. Fewer folks point out that people are not spaces and that spaces, though…
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On Endings
When I was a teenager neighborhood friends I had connected with moved away, the way that neighborhood friends do. It wasn’t far but it wasn’t nearly as close. I have a memory that kind of haunts me about walking around the area the day after they left, passing by their house, feeling this kind of…
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So Many Connections: Attending Data, Power, and Pedagogy
I’m excited to have been accepted to participate in Data, Power, and Pedagogy put on by HestiaLabs and Brown University’s Information Future’s Lab (IFL) running Sept. 27th – 29th in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the first professional development anything I have traveled to in person since the pandemic and I’m so happy that it…