Category Archives: AI

Project Omerta

Posted on March 20, 2026 by admin

I read about “How to Build Practice-Based Learning Activities with AI Four evidence-based methods for designing, building & deploying active learning activities with your favourite LLM” by Dr Philippa Hardman from Stephen Downes blog. This is really fantastic work and … Continue reading →

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The Cain Mutiny: Again with the Strawberries

Posted on May 13, 2025 by admin

The inability for AI to tell you how many “R”s are in the word strawberry has been well  documented. I think it has been fixed in ChatGPT o4-min-high, but ChatGPT 4o mini still says two. I am not sure what … Continue reading →

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Mitigating Bias and Inaccuracies in AI Responses

Posted on May 6, 2025 by admin

Mitigating bias and inaccuracies in responses from generative AI requires careful prompt engineering that encourages critical evaluation, cross-checking, and the identification of biases. Here are some advanced prompts designed to help students and professionals critically interrogate AI output, improve accuracy, … Continue reading →

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AI and Ethics at the Washington Canvas Conference (WACC)

Posted on February 26, 2025 by admin

I had an interesting day at the Washington Canvas Conference. The theme today was AI and I presented on ethics and student privacy. It was a good crowd too. I love working in the community and technical college environment – … Continue reading →

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Prompts for Mitigating Bias and Inaccuracies in AI Responses

Posted on February 10, 2025 by admin

I am still looking in to how this is going to work. I created a GPT with documents and some open textbooks on problem-solving and I am creating prompts like this: “Using the documents in your knowledge base, help me … Continue reading →

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Instructional Design GPT

Posted on January 28, 2025 by admin

I created a GPT to act as an instructional design assistant (ID Ally). These are the openly licensed documents I used to create its knowledge base. Some are in there for experimental or reference purposes and not necessarily an endorsement … Continue reading →

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Bibliography for AI and Ethics

Posted on December 11, 2024 by admin

This is the bibliography for a presentation (that may be turned into a short paper). It is on AI and Ethics focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. I am particularly interested in how “intelligence” is defined culturally and how that … Continue reading →

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An Information and AI Literacy Module

Posted on November 19, 2024 by admin

I am working on a Information and AI Literacy module (or short course) with our librarian and I never ran it through AI. The content is just okay, there are a few articles I have not read, so that is … Continue reading →

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On the Banality of AI

Posted on September 10, 2024 by admin

I read an interesting post on Mastodon where the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (ASRG), “an ongoing, conspiratorial, aesthetico-political, practice-led research framework focused on the intersection of digital culture and information technology,” that referenced Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report … Continue reading →

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AI and the Four-Legged Chicken Problem

Posted on August 20, 2024 by admin

I presented last week at Clover Park Technical College’s AI Institute. I used to talk about education technologies, ideas, and processes as often incomplete and misunderstood through the insistence of  seeing the new technology and trying to cludge it into … Continue reading →

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