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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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Digital Citizenship Digital Identity Digital Pedagogy Digital Scholarship Domain of One’s Own Open Web PrivacyDesigning for Privacy with DoOO: Reflections after DPL
The thinking for this post comes on the tail end of Digital Pedagogy Lab (DPL) where, despite not being enrolled in any of the data or privacy offerings, concerns of student data and privacy rang loud in my ears. This came from various conversations but I think it really took off after Jade Davis’ keynote…
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भक्ति in the Time of MOOC and Yoga in the Open
This past week was the soft start to YogaMOOC. I jumped into the twitter stream, signed up for the edx side, and signed up to be a research subject. I’m also taking #OpenEdMOOC and it was week 3 this past week and I did not do a blog post. I’m combining some thoughts about both…
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Openness, Humanness, and Connectedness: or We can connect in the Open if you want to
In my last blog post I responded to the question “why does open matter” posed by #OpenEdMooc with the answer “because we are human” by proclaiming that open mattered because humans have a need to connect and because openness facilitates connectedness. I came across an interesting response to my post from Benjamin Stewart that I…
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Going Clear: A Call for Conversation around the Ethics of Mobile Live Streaming from #OER17 and Other Events
Last year I read Dave Eggers’ The Circle, a dystopian novel about technology, social media, and society gone wrong. By the end of the novel the lead character is engaging in a process called “going clear” where she is live streaming her entire life save sleeping and going to the bathroom. It is pretty creepy.…
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Further Defining LOOM: autonomous persistence in relation to ethos
I was asked to be part of a panel discussion at the Winter Symposium on Digital Literacies in Higher Education as a part of my work with Virtually Connecting. This time I not only had distance as a barrier but also time – I had a meeting scheduled at the same time. The panel was…
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Call for Participation and Introducing #fyschat
George Station and I are both teaching first year seminars (fys) this term and we have been considering ways to collaborate. My class is called “digital citizenship” and his is “technology and society” but we are both asking questions about the role that connected and networked technology is playing in our various worlds and in education.…