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This week’s highlights include recognizing team members who reached the 15-year milestone, attending a talk on AI history, and exploring various articles and resources related to AI, edtech, and design.Read More

This week’s update covers a range of topics including work dynamics, AI developments, joyful learning experiences, web sustainability, and management insights. Some reflections on how I share work-related content, explorations of various AI tools and their implications, the importance of authentic learning, and the evolving nature of the web.Read More

The growing use of GenAI in education, technology, and society raises four main conflicts: misunderstanding its capabilities, insatiable resource hunger, outsourcing creativity, and complicity in a problematic system.Read More

A week filled with meetings, collaboration on AI and technology initiatives, reflections on Truth and Reconciliation, and explorations in AI tools and course design. Also, finished reading the final book in Jean M. Auel’s Earth’s Children series.Read More

I finally tried out Google’s newly-announced NotebookLM generative AI application. It provides a set of LLM-powered tools to summarize documents. I fed it my dissertation, and am surprised at how useful the output would be.

The most impressive tool creates a podcast episode, complete with dual hosts in conversation about the document. First - these are AI-generated hosts. Synthetic voices, speaking for synthetic hosts. And holy moly is it effective. Second - although I’d initially thought the conversational summary would be a dumb gimmick, it is surprisingly powerful.

Some resources and thoughts on design, AI, and education.Read More

Notes on simplifying classroom support models and content retention guidelines for Brightspace. Links include items on AI trends and various articles on leadership, AI in education, and course design.Read More

This week’s links cover various topics including leadership authenticity, the renewed Experiential Learning Framework, AI’s role in creativity, and tech in higher education. Highlights include discussions on micromanagement, holistic pedagogy, AI in art, and generative AI’s impact on writing.Read More

It would have been Dad’s birthday; links on learning technologies and microcredentials, AI in education, and tech burnout in higher education.Read More

It’s been 29 weeks straight of posting these weekly things. I’m amazed that I’ve kept at it. It’s been kind of helpful to formalize the things I’m thinking about each week, but I also know that I’m not digging deeply into things. Quantity over quality, as it were. Although, I don’t know that it’s these weekly things that are getting in the way of that - are they like some kind of textual relief valve? Hopefully not. Anyway. I’ll probably keep this up for a bit more - it’s been super useful to have links searchable at least. But I could do that offline in Obsidian or something. 🤷‍♂️