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 […]
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Back to the Start
but in a different place Starting in a couple of weeks I will be returning to the academic environment. After many years in the government and related world as a teaching and learning professional, I am going back to doing what I started my career doing. Helping others improve their practice of the art and […]
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Homework and AI
If you are a long time podcast listener, you will recognize PJ Vogt and if you miss Reply All, you might want to take a look at Search Engine. I have an just as before just about every episode has something to think about that is often very relevant to what is happening in the […]