Yao Hill Professional Reflection

Generative AI technology permeates our lives. It generates excitement and fear among educators. What is it and what can educators do with it? Below are some notes from presentations by Paul McKimmy , Michael Menchaca , and others, with some independent research notes. Generative AI is predictive.  Generative AI produces new texts, images, sounds, and videos based on a trained model with a large language database. But it does not recite them. AI produces what it predicts as a reasonable response to a question, but not necessarily as a factual or accurate response. It is not a dictionary or an encyclopedia. This is the reason that you will receive different responses for the same question that you ask at different times. As Dr. McKimmy said, "If you are not the expert to evaluate the response, you have a problem." What can AI do? Brainstorm Draft Outline Writing Programming Everything that we ask students to do in a written assignment  Source  AI in Syllabus and Classroom, ...

Have you ever had the experience where you have 15 tabs open in a browser and you can't find the tabs that you just opened so you have to go to your email or your Zoom Chat to copy and paste the link to create yet another tab to be lost in the forest of tabs!!! As my project lists grew longer, I spent longer and longer time finding the right tab. The difficulty of finding the right tabs has been the pet peeve that I brought up consistently in all my Zoom meetings in the past two weeks. A rewarding experience is the tips and strategies that my different Zoom collaborators shared, summarized below: Close them promptly. Leave the only tabs open for your current project. (Good suggestion. But as I have 10 projects going on at the same time, if I close a tab, I may miss a task that I need to complete.) Pin tabs. It's maddening that I always have to find where my email and my calendar tabs are. Right-click on them in Chrome. Select  pin . Now my email is always the first tab to...