Tag Archives: AI

On the Banality of AI

Posted on September 10, 2024 by geoffcain

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 geoffcain

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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Some Resources from the AI in Education Conference, Orlando 2024

Posted on July 26, 2024 by geoffcain

I was at the Teaching and Learning with AI 2024 Conference in Orlando, Florida on July 22nd-24th. I am posting this mostly for members of our team who stayed behind and gallantly supported the Teaching & Learning Center back at … Continue reading →

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AI, Problem-Solving, and Visual Thinking

Posted on June 8, 2024 by geoffcain

I have been looking at AI as a thinking tool. Not as something to generate content (which I think it is essentially lousy at), but as an aide to thinking. I heard a number of people at conferences and elsewhere … Continue reading →

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CFP: AI Institute at Clover Park Technical College

Posted on April 18, 2024 by geoffcain

Clover Park Technical College has a CFP for its 2024 AI Institute, which examines the innovative and ethical use of AI in higher education. This event will take place on Fri., Aug. 9th and Sat., Aug., 10th, 2024. We invite … Continue reading →

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A Short Annotated Reading List for AI Ethics and Policy

Posted on February 29, 2024 by geoffcain

This is a reading list of essays, resources, and full-hatched policies at other institutions for AI and ethics. It is meant to provide a background for those interested in developing an AI policy for their courses or for their institution. … Continue reading →

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AI: What is your policy?

Posted on January 26, 2024 by geoffcain

I wrote this for the Teaching & Learning Center Newsletter, but I wanted a version of this in the blogosphere in case someone had a take on the five positions here in this brief article. We are also discussing AI … Continue reading →

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AI: An “F” for Fake

Posted on January 10, 2024 by geoffcain

I have been playing with voice cloning to try and get a sense of where the technology is and how it can be used in instructional design. There are a number of moral and legal issues with voice cloning, of … Continue reading →

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Edu Predictions: Where is my conveyor belt sidewalk?

Posted on January 5, 2024 by geoffcain

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 geoffcain

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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