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Category Archives: automation
Starting my future of higher education seminar at Georgetown
Today I’m holding the first class for my Georgetown University Learning, Design, and Technology future of higher education class. It’s one I created from scratch and am enormously fond of. I’ve taught it several times, and am keeping the majority … Continue reading
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What are campuses doing about AI this fall semester?
NB: I’ve updated this post several times with more examples, mostly recently 7/25/2023. As fall classes draw nigh, I wonder (among other things) what colleges and universities are doing to do about generative AI. I haven’t seen many completed institutional … Continue reading
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AI, higher education, and the future: launching a Substack
What might new developments in artificial intelligence mean for higher education? I’ve been exploring this topic for years, and now would like to announce a new project about it. I’m launching a Substack newsletter, AI and Academia, with the goal … Continue reading
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Some large-scale decisions we can make about AI in 2023
In my current work on forecasting the intersection of AI and higher ed, I’ve been running into an interesting problem. Well, several, but today I’d like to share a structural one, caught between futures thinking and where AI is right … Continue reading
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Instructors after AI
How will the current wave of artificial intelligence change college teaching? I’ve been thinking AI and education for years, and it’s all come into sharp focus lately, due to the advent of large language learning (LLM) bots like ChatGPT (previously). … Continue reading
Digital storytelling with generative AI: notes on the appearance of #AICinema
Whenever we create a new communications technology, we try new ways of telling stories with it. That’s one of my long-running contentions. I made it in digital storytelling workshops and my first book (ABC-CLIO; Amazon). My thinking is that humans … Continue reading
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How might higher education respond to GPT-4? A community conversation with Ruben Puentedura
What can colleges and universities do about generative AI? How can academics respond to this fast-moving technology? Last Thursday we hosted computer scientist and ed tech leader Ruben Puentedura on the Future Trends Forum to explore the implications of large … Continue reading
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A flurry of AI releases now: GPT-4 and new educational projects
The generative AI world continues to develop at a very fast pace. I’m buried in project work right now, but wanted to quickly note some developments. The big announcement today was OpenAI’s launch of GPT-4, the next version of its … Continue reading
Experimenting with using ChatGPT as a simulation application
How might we use generative AI tools in higher education? Many address this issue by focusing on chatbots as writing apps, trying to think through what the technology means for teaching writing. While this is obviously a major part of … Continue reading
Two figures for generative AI: the calculator and the mad scientist’s assistant
As people grapple with ChatGPT 3 and other instances of generative artificial intelligence, we sometimes turn to imagination in order to describe and understand the technology. I’ve seen folks raise the Terminator movies, HAL-9000, and generic scary robots to express … Continue reading