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Democratizing Participation in AI in Education

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tl;dr – Go play around with generativetextbooks.org and let me know what you think. Earlier this year I began prototyping an open source tool for learning with AI in order to explore ways generative AI and OER could intersect. I’m specifically interested in trying to combine the technical power of generative AI with the participatory … Read more

Making AI a More Effective Teacher: Lessons from TPACK

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Human Teachers and AI Teachers Would you be surprised if you pulled a random person off the street, shoved them into a classroom full of students, and then found that they weren’t a particularly effective teacher? Of course not. And why wouldn’t that be surprising? Because effective teaching requires a great deal of knowledge and … Read more

Where Open Education Meets Generative AI: OELMs

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Prelude The extraordinary woman who mentored me through graduate school and co-chaired my PhD committee, Dr. Laurie Nelson, frequently talked to me about the idea of “current best thinking.” Characterizing something as your “current best thinking” gives you permission to share where you are in your work while simultaneously making it clear that your thinking … Read more