Learning and Technology

  • Why I Like TPACK for Thinking About Teaching and Learning

    Why I Like TPACK for Thinking About Teaching and Learning

    I’ve been trying to write about TPACK for a while now but I keep not finishing because I get bogged down in absolutely gigantic examples and so I’m going to try to break my writing about TPACK down into smaller bits. I want to talk about why I *like* TPACK first. Then I’ll tackle some…

  • The AI Resources I Keep Using

    I keep loosing the documents I need, so I’m making a central list and figured I’d share it in case it helped anyone else. I’m building this list out as I keep losing things so it will change over time. Updated – November 10

  • Thinking more about AI – June 2023 edition

    After facilitating a Classroom/Course Design Conversation about AI and higher education back in June a few things have occurred to me.

  • We Should Have Better Training Data For Higher Ed

    I’ve lost track of the original source (post? toot? tweet?), but I recently ran across a note discussing how we, as educators, would be a lot better served by building and training our own Artificial Intelligence systems rather than relying on the generic ones produced by OpenAI (or anyone else). I also attended a meeting…

  • My perspective on ChatGPT (and creativity and teaching)

    Despite the furor around ChatGPT at the moment, I’m not excited. I don’t think it will be the doom of academics or even current assessment and I also don’t think it is (or will be) a very good tool to incorporate into learning activities or any creative work. I think its indicative of some places…

  • My 2022 Learning Technology Toolbox

    My 2022 Learning Technology Toolbox

    A little while back D’Arcy posted about his Top Tools for learning technology. I was surprised by how different that his tools were from the tools I was using. So I thought I’d write up the tools I’ve been using in 2022.