I am currently working on a professional development course for Clover Park Technical College on Universal Design for Learning (I am currently researching OER and UDL so if you have some favorites or something that you have successfully used in … Continue reading →| Brainstorm in Progress
We have a lot of great proposals submitted for the AI+OER Institute but we have room for a few more and our deadline is coming up: June 16th!| Brainstorm in Progress
My latest posts have been AI heavy: ironically, this one is too. Without AI, captioning videos was expensive and cumbersome. Few colleges really had the time or money for it. At community and technical colleges, we’re all juggling heavy work … Continue reading →| Brainstorm in Progress
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 →| Brainstorm in Progress
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 →| Brainstorm in Progress
Share Your Expertise at Clover Park Technical College’s 2025 AI + OER Institute!| Brainstorm in Progress
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 – it is definitely all about the students. I get a sense that there are faculty that really care about their students and they are rightly anxious about technological change – especially in a time of political upheaval. I started out the day on the panel for AI and the ...| Brainstorm in Progress
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 come up with advanced prompts for problem-solving or analyzing a problem. The audience is for students at a two-year technical college. I would like the prompts to have blanks (like MadLibs) for the students’ to fill in with the issue or problem they wish to solve or analyze. ...| Brainstorm in Progress
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 →| Brainstorm in Progress
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 introduces its own kind of bias. If you have some article that would fit or needs to be included, let me know in a comment:| Brainstorm in Progress
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I have just moved to Humboldt State University. The college is fairly rural but we get a lot of folks from urban areas. I over heard a very interesting conversation between some students in the cafeteria. One of them was freaking out because there was a rat in the garden outside that they could see outside through the window.| Brainstorm in Progress
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 Clover Park Technical College. We went to this conference last year and got so much out of it, made so many great connections, that I am thrilled we were able to make it back (despite the ferocious humidity in Orlando). I would recommend this conference to anyone: teac...| Brainstorm in Progress
I am at Achieving the Dream’s Dream 24 conference with a team from Clover Park Technical College in Orlando, Fl. I am interested in looking at highflex models from the instructional design perspective. These are my notes for colleagues – they are impressionistic and represent my own intrests as an instructional designer – your results may vary, contents may settle during shipping.| Brainstorm in Progress