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Big Brother Is… Teaching You?
Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash A week ago, I asked if I could be a fly on the wall of a ‘simulation’ in Totalitarianism. It was a different way of teaching a unit of history. I really didn’t...
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Why are vinyl albums so cool again?
Old tech fulfils three needs we are denied of in a digital world. Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash A few weeks back, I stopped by at a thrift store. An inexplicable gravitational force pulled towards...
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Blurry borders and authors who cross the line.
Sometimes, it’s the border that crosses us. Photo by Imre Tömösvári on Unsplash Salman Rushdie knows a lot about borders. His books explore the concept of borders; he’s lived them. The recent knife...
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Mansplaining spinfluencers I know diddly-squat about.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay I may sound like a panjandrum (a word that rear-ended me the other day) because I’m not a huge fan of neologisms. Some of these recent words seem to be arriving by...
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What my students and I learned from a live podcast experiment.
To cut to the chase – I loved it! Now for the rest of the story. Podcasting is nothing more than a person with a mic and a story well told. But, on a production level, it could get complicated when...
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The disinformation virus, here to stay.
I have to admit, I am a terrible skeptic when it comes to what people share on our networks. I’m especially weary of what sails through WhatsApp. Are you? I belong to just four groups but I bet you...
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When their ‘Privacy Policy’ sucks. What do you do?
Image, courtesy Michael Geiger on Unsplash Let’s see what you make of this privacy statement. You’ve probably clicked on hundreds of similar ones and never cared to read them. Beware! Many companies...
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For now, AI is more hype than substance.
There’s Human Intelligence, and Artificial kind. I wasn’t taken up by the recent bluster about AI which arrived in 2022 all dressed up, but wearing flipflops. Somehow there was a mismatch between its...
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At least, Bard is honest about it’s inadequacies.
So I just began testing Bard today. Before I dipped my toes into it, Google hit me with a series of cautionary notes, to set my expectations low. Here’s the first: “I’m Bard, your creative and helpful...
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Let George Orwell fire up your characters, inspire your scenes, create conflict.
Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay I was looking for inspiration as to how to get my students to plunge a reader into a story through a character, and I remembered Winston Smith. Perhaps he’s not as...
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2023: The year AI gatecrashed our party. (Try getting the confetti out of...
Not to alarm you, but this year the ‘Doomsday Clock’ was forwarded to… 90 seconds from midnight. Ten seconds up since last year. Speaking of timing, in the next eight minutes of your time I will focus...
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I spoke to an AI for fun. His geography was horrible.
Photo by Growtika on Unsplash On a whim, I logged into a site called Air AI, that promised the usual moon and the stars. A call was triggered, and ‘Alex’ called my number. I was expecting to be rid of...
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Blurry borders and authors who cross the line.
Sometimes, it’s the border that crosses us. Photo by Imre Tömösvári on Unsplash Salman Rushdie knows a lot about borders. His books explore the concept of borders; he’s lived them. The recent knife...
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Mansplaining spinfluencers I know diddly-squat about.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay I may sound like a panjandrum (a word that rear-ended me the other day) because I’m not a huge fan of neologisms. Some of these recent words seem to be arriving by...
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What my students and I learned from a live podcast experiment.
To cut to the chase – I loved it! Now for the rest of the story. Podcasting is nothing more than a person with a mic and a story well told. But, on a production level, it could get complicated when...
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The disinformation virus, here to stay.
I have to admit, I am a terrible skeptic when it comes to what people share on our networks. I’m especially weary of what sails through WhatsApp. Are you? I belong to just four groups but I bet you...
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When their ‘Privacy Policy’ sucks. What do you do?
Image, courtesy Michael Geiger on Unsplash Let’s see what you make of this privacy statement. You’ve probably clicked on hundreds of similar ones and never cared to read them. Beware! Many companies...
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For now, AI is more hype than substance.
There’s Human Intelligence, and Artificial kind. I wasn’t taken up by the recent bluster about AI which arrived in 2022 all dressed up, but wearing flipflops. Somehow there was a mismatch between its...
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At least, Bard is honest about it’s inadequacies.
So I just began testing Bard today. Before I dipped my toes into it, Google hit me with a series of cautionary notes, to set my expectations low. Here’s the first: “I’m Bard, your creative and helpful...
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Let George Orwell fire up your characters, inspire your scenes, create conflict.
Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay I was looking for inspiration as to how to get my students to plunge a reader into a story through a character, and I remembered Winston Smith. Perhaps he’s not as...
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