Yao Hill Professional Reflection

 Exploring AI Tools for Literature Review For years, I meant to establish a strong theoretical foundation in facilitative leadership and conduct a comprehensive literature review. Today, I explored several AI tools and compared them with the results from Google Scholar. Below is my journey. 1. Google Scholar ( scholar.google.com ) I typed in "facilitative leadership" in Google Scholar. There were 83,600 results. Among the first 10 results, 6 seemed to be highly relevant for providing a theoretical foundation. Facilitative Leadership : The Imperative for Change.  (1992) Facilitative Leadership : How Principals Lead without Dominating.  (1994) Facilitative leadership : One approach to empowering staff and other stakeholders  (2004) [BOOK]   Planning in the face of conflict: The surprising possibilities of  facilitative leadership  (2017) Participatory approaches and the role of  facilitative leadership  (2014) [PDF]   Can instructiona...

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, ...

I have joined the Grand Challenges in Assessment Project (GCiA) Implementation Team in 2021. Over the years, my team and I feel that we do not always know where the project is and where we are going. Reflecting on my personal work habits, I know that I heavily rely on my center's website to document my work and track projects. It just happened that I had a day free of meetings. I ventured into editing the project page: Pedagogical Improvements that I has been leading. It looked like any other project page with just the project goals. See an example from the Drive Innovation team page: Honestly, I do not like editing websites. Because it takes enormous amount of time, speaking from the experience as a webmasters for a student club when I was in grad school, for the professional organizations that I chaired, and for my center's website and project sites that I led. I usually keep my sites as simple as possible. I give a lot of credit to Karen Singer-Freeman who created and ma...