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Edu Predictions: Where is my conveyor belt sidewalk?

Posted on January 5, 2024 by admin

I have been rather disappointed lately that over the last few years we have not had much in the way of predictions in the education sector. For a while there it seemed like pedagogical prognostic punditry was a wide-spread New … Continue reading →

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Efforts to Regulate A.I.

Posted on November 3, 2023 by admin

I have not posted here in a while because of conferences, in-service, travel, and other local elearning events – it was a whirl-wind summer of AI in Education, a conference at University of Central Florida. We then presented with our … Continue reading →

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Open Pedagogy and Teaching with Zines

Posted on September 12, 2023 by admin

I have recently, just for artistic inspirational reasons, went to San Francisco for the Labor Day weekend. My wife and I used to live there in the early 90s when we first graduated from college and got married. She worked … Continue reading →

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AI and the End of Education

Posted on August 29, 2023 by admin

By the click-baity title “end of education,” I don’t mean the inevitable intellectual dystopian smoking hellscape of education that is to come, but the purpose of education: to what end are we doing what we do and by what means … Continue reading →

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Clover Park Technical College is excited to host our second annual OER Faculty Institute!

Posted on July 24, 2023 by admin

Dates: Friday, August 11 and Saturday, August 12  Time: 9 am to 3 pm  Location: Zoom There will be keynote presentations from internationally recognized OER professionals as well as sessions on finding OER, accessibility in OER, open licenses, open pedagogy as well … Continue reading →

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Brief Notes on Issues Around ChatGPT

Posted on July 12, 2023 by admin

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

Posted on June 7, 2023 by admin

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

Posted on June 2, 2023 by admin

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

Posted on April 24, 2023 by admin

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

Posted on April 21, 2023 by admin

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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