Currently reading “Generative AI for Academics” by Carrigan (2024)
The other day I read something (that I cannot find again) along the lines of “GenAI creates art for people who hate art, music for people who hate music, reading…
Tag: GenAI
Published! “Superficially plausible outputs from a Black Box: problematising GenAI tools for analysing qualitative SoTL data” Glessmer & Forsyth (2025)
We had spent the last month reading, coding, discussing, re-coding, discussing some more, re-coding, discussing even more, and then consensus coding free-text answers of 449 students, and submitted the manuscript.…
Currently reading “Gender Differences in the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots in Higher Education: Characteristics and Consequences” by Møgelvang et al. (2024)
Who uses GenAI, what for, and why does it matter? That’s what Anja Møgelvang (who also does lots of other fascinating work, for example on cooperative learning) and colleagues explore…
Currently reading about “botshit”, and how to avoid it (Hannigan, McCarthy, Spicer; 2024)
When I recently summarized an article that claimed that Large Language Models (LLM) are “bullshit”, I got a lot of strong reactions offline and online about that term, and a…
According to Hicks et al. (2004), “ChatGPT is bullshit”. And they make good arguments for it, too!
I have written about playing with GAI for certain purposes, most recently to “discuss” the development of a workshop when I had no person to discuss it with. But this…
Planning an academic development workshop with GAI Claude
“Hi Claude, I want to plan a 45 minute workshop for university teachers with the title “how do I cultivate joy, passion, and purpose in my teaching, and how do…
How politely should we talk to GAI in order to get the best results? Currently reading Yin et al. (2024)
Thanks to my awesome colleague Rachel and her Teams team I see so many interesting articles on GAI these days! For example the one by Yin et al. (2024) on…
“It feels like having a smart friend which we ask anything and it can answer”: Currently reading: “Exploring Students’ Perceptions of ChatGPT: Thematic Analysis and Follow-Up Survey” (Shoufan, 2023)
I’m currently thinking a lot, and talking with a lot of students, about what builds trust between students and teachers: Mostly that teachers ask questions, listen, and respond. But then…
Prompt engineering and other stuff I never thought I would have to teach about
Last week, I thought a very intensive “Introduction to Teaching and Learning” course where we — like all other teachers everywhere — had to address that GAI has made many…