Author Archives: geoffcain

Brief Notes on Issues Around ChatGPT

Here are some quick notes around issues around ChatGPT: Lack of corporate transparency from the mis-named Open AI (Silicon Republic) Ethical issues around labor practices with Open AI (Time) Difficulties with attribution (Duke University) Unresolved copyright issues (Bloomberg Law) Spreading … Continue reading

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OER Faculty Institute Extends CFP

The OER Faculty Institute CFP extended to June 16th: The Clover Park Technical College’s Teaching and Learning Center is excited to invite proposals for the 2023 OER Faculty Institute to be held on August 11th and 12th completely online. Our … Continue reading

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Using Single Point Rubrics

I had a great conversation with an instructor today about rubrics. I got an email from the instructor asking about how to deal with a student’s repeated failure to meet the requirements of a project and if a rubric could … Continue reading

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The Environmental Impact of AI

Here is something from the MIT Reivew that I don’t see talked about much: “In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, performed a life cycle assessment for training several common large AI models. They found that the … Continue reading

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Frances Bell: Guerilla Edtech

This is a must read from Frances Bell: “Rather than taking a dystopian or utopian position, a ’rewilding’ is a more productive frame to address technology’s place within education (ibid). This is akin to other guerrilla projects such as gardening, wherein … Continue reading

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Look Before We Leap: Evaluating Ed Tech

The willy-nilly embracing of AI in education and ChatGPT in particular has got me thinking again about the importance of rubrics for the evaluation of education technology. I think we are at a place where all of the efforts that … Continue reading

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OER Faculty Institute: Call for Proposals 

The Clover Park Technical College’s Teaching and Learning Center is excited to invite proposals for the 2023 OER Faculty Institute to be held on August 11th and 12th completely online. Our emphasis is professional and technical education, but faculty, librarians, students, instructional … Continue reading

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Promoting Authentic Learning in the Age of AI

As an instructional designer and former English teacher, I have mixed feelings about using A.I. to produce school work. If there is a learning outcome that is legitimately met by a particular tool (including AI), then fine – let’s include … Continue reading

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Mastodon and a Sense of Community

This is just a quick update on my experiences moving from Twitter to Mastodon. I am very happy with my move out of the Twitter dumpster fire. At first, it was a real shock pulling myself out of the dozen … Continue reading

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Visual Learning and the Graphic Syllabus in Five Questions

I am working with a few faculty on campus who are looking to adopt a graphic syllabus. This brief posting is basically a recording of that conversation for online reference. Those who have read this blog for a while know … Continue reading

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