In my personal and professional feeds, AI is seeping in everywhere. From the humour channels on YouTube (Ryah George Why is AI a Liar, Your Uncle Can’t Spot AI), to gadget channels (Mr. Whose the Boss – The Ultimate AI Battle), to trivia dive (Wendover – How AI makes Power Worse), and many more. Podcasts […]
… with a not so subtle nudge going out to the Oilers… Recently, I have been going over ideas to help with a course in Nursing. The prof, in an otherwise throw-away comment to myself and the other ED there in the meeting, mentioned something out loud to herself, “like Betty Neuman,” when I mentioned […]
A long time ago, last century infact, I was an undergrad taking biology courses. In one course that looked at cladistics (or as students called it “sadistics”) and nomenclature there was a lament about how to describe flowers. Especially in the river valley by the University of Lethbridge there are many, many plants that sport […]
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The World I Know
This week, MacEwan launched a new open-access journal, Pedagogical Inquiry and Practice, focused on undergraduate education and promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) around the practice. Since my very first course in university in the last century, journals have been these tomes that have existed forever. Sure, there is a volume one out […]
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Product or Process
A few months back I posted about AI and homework, and now Wired’s Uncanny Valley has an episode about whether or not the use of AI is academically responsible. The episode talks about both students and educators and what their use of AI would or could mean. It’s certainly not an easy topic to even […]