AI's Impact on Learning with Marc Watkins
06/04/24 • 39 min
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Worried about your students asking ChatGPT to write their essays for them? That's so 2023. Generative AI technology is changing fast, and now these tools have the potential to disrupt many different aspects of learning, from reading to notetaking to feedback.
To help us explore those changes, this episode features a conversation with Marc Watkins, lecturer in writing and rhetoric and academic innovation fellow at the University of Mississippi. Marc's blog, Rhetorica, is a must read, and his workshops on teaching and AI for UM faculty have been incredibly helpful.
Marc has a new series on his blog called “Beyond ChatGPT” that explores the many ways that generative AI is affecting learning—far beyond the now-typical use of having ChatGPT write an essay on behalf of a student—and we talked about those changes to the learning landscape.
Episode Resources
Rhetorica, Marc Watkins’ blog, https://marcwatkins.substack.com/
Marc Watkins’ website, https://marcwatkins.org/
ChatGPT 4o demo reels, https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/
Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI, https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her
Explainpaper, https://www.explainpaper.com/
Student Notetaking for Recall and Understanding, https://derekbruff.org/?p=2848
Why Use Sketchnotes in the Classroom?, https://derekbruff.org/?p=2902
Mike Sharples’ May 2022 essay on AI in teaching and learning, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/05/17/new-ai-tools-that-can-write-student-essays-require-educators-to-rethink-teaching-and-assessment/
AnswersAi, “School on Easy Mode,” https://answersai.com/
DevinAI, “The First AI Software Engineer,” https://www.cognition.ai/blog/introducing-devin
Podcast Links:
Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.
Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe
Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching
Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.
See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage.
Worried about your students asking ChatGPT to write their essays for them? That's so 2023. Generative AI technology is changing fast, and now these tools have the potential to disrupt many different aspects of learning, from reading to notetaking to feedback.
To help us explore those changes, this episode features a conversation with Marc Watkins, lecturer in writing and rhetoric and academic innovation fellow at the University of Mississippi. Marc's blog, Rhetorica, is a must read, and his workshops on teaching and AI for UM faculty have been incredibly helpful.
Marc has a new series on his blog called “Beyond ChatGPT” that explores the many ways that generative AI is affecting learning—far beyond the now-typical use of having ChatGPT write an essay on behalf of a student—and we talked about those changes to the learning landscape.
Episode Resources
Rhetorica, Marc Watkins’ blog, https://marcwatkins.substack.com/
Marc Watkins’ website, https://marcwatkins.org/
ChatGPT 4o demo reels, https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/
Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI, https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her
Explainpaper, https://www.explainpaper.com/
Student Notetaking for Recall and Understanding, https://derekbruff.org/?p=2848
Why Use Sketchnotes in the Classroom?, https://derekbruff.org/?p=2902
Mike Sharples’ May 2022 essay on AI in teaching and learning, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/05/17/new-ai-tools-that-can-write-student-essays-require-educators-to-rethink-teaching-and-assessment/
AnswersAi, “School on Easy Mode,” https://answersai.com/
DevinAI, “The First AI Software Engineer,” https://www.cognition.ai/blog/introducing-devin
Podcast Links:
Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.
Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe
Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching
Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.
See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.
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Curriculum Mapping with Jennifer M. Harrison and Vickie Rey Williams
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Jennifer M. Harrison and Vickey Rey Williams are the authors of the book A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Creating a Collaborative, Transformative, and Learner-Centered Curriculum, published by Routledge in late 2023. Jennifer is the associate director for assessment at the Faculty Development Center at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (or UMBC), and Vickie is a senior lecturer in education at UMBC.
In their book and in our conversation, they share the ways that a curriculum map can take the learning design principles we often use at the course level and apply them to the design of an entire program. The goal is to make the program more learner-centered by mapping learning outcomes against both curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities. That, in turn, can help convince all kinds of stakeholders, from students to parents to politicians, of the value colleges and universities place on teaching and learning.
Episode Resources
A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Creating a Collaborative, Transformative, and Learner-Centered Curriculumby Jennifer M. Harrison and Vickie Rey Williams, https://amzn.to/44SdZhC
Faculty Development Center, University of Maryland Baltimore County, https://calt.umbc.edu/
Transparent Teaching with Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Intentional Teaching Ep. 5, https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/11997464-transparent-teaching-with-mary-ann-winkelmes
“American Value Good Teaching. Do Colleges?” by Beth McMurtrie, https://www.chronicle.com/article/americans-value-good-teaching-do-colleges?sra=true
Podcast Links:
Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.
Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe
Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching
Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.
See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.
Next Episode
Take It or Leave It with Stacey Johnson, Emily Donahoe, and Lance Eaton
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Inspired by a recent episode of the American Birding Podcast, this episode of Intentional Teaching features a "Take It or Leave It" Panel. I spent some quality time with recent essays published online looking for arguments about teaching and learning in higher education that would be open to debate. For each of these hot takes, I asked our three panelists to take it (that is, agree with the hot take) or leave it (disagree), forcing them into an artificial binary that, I think, led to some robust discussion.
We have three fantastic panelists for our first “Take It or Leave It” panel. Stacey M. Johnson is director of learning and engagement at the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan University. Emily Pitts Donahoe is an associate director of instructional support at the University of Mississippi Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Lance Eaton is director of faculty development and innovation at College Unbound.
Episode Resources:
"How Accommodating Can (Should) I Be?" by David Galef, Inside Higher Ed, May 2024
"It's Time to Start Teaching Your Students How to Be a Student" by Emily Isaacs, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2024
"Is AI Finally a Way to Reduce Higher Ed Costs?" by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, Inside Higher Ed, April 2024
"No One Is Talking about AI's Impact on Reading" by Marc Watkins, Rhetorica, May 2024
Stacey M. Johnson's website, https://staceymargarita.wordpress.com/
Emily Pitts Donahoe's Substack, https://emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/
Lance Eaton's Substack, https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/
"Take It or Leave It - Seawatching, Records Committees, and Owls" on the American Birding Podcast
Podcast Links:
Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.
Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe
Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching
Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.
See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.
Intentional Teaching - AI's Impact on Learning with Marc Watkins
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Derek BruffWelcome to Intentional Teaching, a podcast aimed at educators to help them develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas and teaching. I'm your host, Derek Bruff. I hope this podcast helps you be more intentional in how you teach and in how you develop as a teacher over time. Way back on the second episode of this podcast, I talked with Robert Cummings from the University
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