Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else

A conversation between Jon Ippolito and Bart Everson on a handy mnemonic to help you remember all the things that could go wrong with artificial intelligence. Jon Ippolito is an American artist, an educator, a new media scholar and a former curator at the Guggenheim. He studied astrophysics and painting in the early 1980s and then pursued internet art in the 1990s. He's a professor of New Media at the University of Maine, where he teaches classes on programming, online culture, variable media, and viral media, and now, of course, artificial intelligence. Links for this episode: The IMPACT RISK framework What Uses More? footprint calculator Learning With AI toolkit "AI in Education" discussion group "Higher Ed discussions of AI" Facebook group About Jon: personal site, University of Maine, Wikipedia entry Transcript: Bart EversonThis is Bart Everson, and I'm here today with Jon Ippolito. Very excited to have him on the program. Just to tell you a little bit, we'll draw a little bit from the Wikipedia article. He's an American artist, an educator, a new media scholar and a former curator at the Guggenheim. He studied astrophysics and painting in the early 1980s and then pursued internet art in the 1990s. He's a professor of New Media at the University of Maine, where he teaches classes on programming, online culture, variable media, and viral media, and now, of course, artificial intelligence. So welcome to the program, Jon, and maybe you could tell us a little bit about what you are teaching these days, with regards to AI. Jon IppolitoThanks, Bart, great

A conversation between Wendy Gaudin and Bart Everson on writing and publishing. Wendy A. Gaudin is a historian and writer whose interdisciplinary work centers southern-descended, mixed-heritage, and mixed-race populations and histories. As a mixed-heritage Louisiana Creole of Color whose elders migrated to California in the first half of the twentieth century, Gaudin is deeply moved, shaped, and inspired by her expansive community’s story. She divides her time between New Orleans and Acadiana, and she teaches history at Xavier University of Louisiana. Links for this episode: Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole (LSU Press) Transcript: Bart EversonSo I'm Bart Everson, Creative Generalist at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and I'm here chatting with Wendy Gaudin, Professor in the History Department here at Xavier University of Louisiana, and I'm holding in my hot little hands a new, freshly autographed edition of Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole, which is Wendy's book. Wendy's first book. So Wendy, thank you. First of all, thank you for the book. Wendy GaudinYou're welcome. BEAnd second of all, welcome to the podcast. WGThank you. BEAnd I thought I should mention for anybody who doesn't know what the Sunset Limited is — not only is it the name of your book, but it's also the name of a train, and that train features in the book. And I thought in today's conversation, you know, we'll talk a little bit about the book, but people really should read that to find out about the content. I thought, in keeping with the theme of this podcast, you know, Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else, with our series, that we would focus a little bit more on the process of how you wrote the book, and why, and all these other things. So can you tell us a little bit about the train, and why the book is named after the train, and what that has to do with Creole? WGSure. Well, thank you for having me. The Sunset Limited is a particular route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and it follows the southern border of the United States. And the Sunset Limited is a route that goes from New Orleans to Los Angeles, and it is a train line that has been talked about in ma

A conversation between Maggie Fernandes, Megan McIntyre, Jennifer Sano-Franchini, and Jay Todd on refusing generative AI in writing studies. as if to suggest they REFUSED to have their photo taken Maggie Fernandes (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Arkansas. Megan McIntyre (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and Director of the Program in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Arkansas. Jennifer Sano-Franchini (she/her) is the Gaziano Family Legacy Professor and an Associate Professor of English at West Virginia University. Links for this episode: Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies Everyone’s Writing With AI (Except Me!) (podcast) Transcript: Note: This transcript was generated by AI; it has been proofread (by a human) lightly but may still contain errors. Jay ToddWelcome to Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else where we explore issues in the realm of higher education. My name is Jason Todd, and I am the director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development and Kellogg Professor of Teaching at Xavier University of Louisiana. In this episode, we explore the thought provoking refusing generative AI in writing studies manifesto with its authors, Jennifer Sano, Franchini, Megan McIntyre and Maggie Fernandez as generative AI tools like chat GPT become increasingly embedded in higher education. The authors challenge the assumption that adoption is inevitable or beneficial. They argue for a critical, principled refusal, one that recognizes the power dynamics, labor imp

A conversation between Harsh Kumar and Bart Everson on creativity and artificial intelligence. Harsh Kumar is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on developing algorithms and systems for social good, particularly in cognition, mental health, and education. Recent experiments have focused on problems related to AI and education. Links for this episode: Kumar, H., Vincentius, J., Jordan, E., & Anderson, A. (2024). Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking (arXiv:2410.03703). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.03703 One of the popular TikToks on the above paper The math education paper mentioned during our talk  Another paper on guiding students to use LLMs, which educators might find useful Transcript: Bart EversonI'm Bart Everson, your host for this episode of Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else. I'm delighted to be with Harsh Kumar today. Just let me introduce him real quickly. He's a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and his research focuses on developing algorithms and systems for social good, particularly in cognition, mental health, and education, and some of his current work caught my attention because it focused on an issue that's near and dear to my heart, which is creativity. So we saw this paper. "Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs," which, as you may know, that's artificial intelligence, Large Language Models. And I just wanted to ask you, Harsh — well, first of all, thanks for joining us. What prompted you to do research in this particular area, the impact of large language models on human creativity? Harsh K

A conversation with NotebookLM. Well, actually it's more of a conversation by NotebookLM, based on 52 previous episodes of this podcast. Well, you'll just have to listen. Facilitated by CAT+FD's Creative Generalist Bart Everson. Links for this episode: NotebookLM (Google) Illuminate (a similar experimental product, also from Google) Transcript: Bart EversonThis is Bart Everson, Creative Generalist for Faculty Development. I wanted to tell you a little bit about a artificial intelligence platform that you may have heard of. It's NotebookLM. Google's advertising it as an experimental model. They call it a personalized AI collaborator that, and I'm quoting here, "helps you do your best thinking." The idea is that you upload documents and then it analyzes those slices and dices them in a bunch of different ways. What I find particularly interesting about this platform is that you can upload a voluminous amount of texts, and for example, believe the limit might be 52 sources that you can upload. Each one be a document of, I believe, up to 500,000 words. Now that's a lot of text, and one of the features of this platform has been that it can make podcasts out of them. Well, that's real funny and amusing, and we're going to take a look at that in a moment, because we can't resist a little fun. But I just want to say that I think the more interesting features of NotebookLM are sometimes overlooked. You can ask all kinds of questions analyzing the documents that you've

A conversation with Asem Abdullahad, Michelle Boissiere, Wendy Gaudin, and Elizabeth Manley on communities of practice at Xavier, facilitated by incoming CAT+FD Director Jason S. Todd. Michelle Boissiere Wendy Gaudin Elizabeth Manley Asem Abdulahad Links for this episode: Communities of Practice (CAT Base) Transcript: Coming soon! <p

A conversation with Beth Schwartz and Regan Gurung on the scholarship of teaching and learning, facilitated by outgoing (no pun intended) CAT+FD Director Elizabeth Yost Hammer. Regan A. R. Gurung, PhD, is a social psychologist by training with research encompassing social, health, and pedagogical psychology.  Over 100 of his articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals and he has co-authored/co-edited 15 books. Beth M. Schwartz, PhD, is the Office of Applied Psychology’s associate director. Schwartz received her BA from Colby College (Maine) and her PhD in cognitive psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Links for this episode: Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Practicing Pedagogical Research [Wiley] "Scholarship Reconsidered" by Ernest L. Boyer Office of Applied Psychology [APA] Education: Teaching and Learning [OSU] Transcript: Coming soon!

A conversation between Elizabeth Yost Hammer and Stephen Linn Chew on the importance of student trust. Photo used by permission Stephen L. Chew has been a professor of psychology at Samford since 1993. He served as department chair from 1993 to 2019. Trained as a cognitive psychologist, he is a nationally recognized expert on the cognitive basis of effective teaching and student learning. He conducts original research on topics such as using examples in teaching, the impact of cognitive load on learning, the importance of student curiosity and trust in the teacher, and the tenacious misconceptions that students bring into the classroom. He also works to translate cognitive research into accessible knowledge for teachers and students. Dr. Chew is the creator of a groundbreaking series of YouTube videos for students on studying effectively based on cognitive research. The videos have received millions of views and are used worldwide at educational institutions, from high schools to professional schools. Samford University Links for this episode: "It Is More Important for Students to Trust Us Than to Like Us" by Stephen Chew Learning in Pandemic Times (video, 24 min.) Transcript: Coming soon!

A conversation between ChatGPT and Mark Gstohl on teaching, learning, and artificial intelligence. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI. It's been in the news a lot since its launch in late 2022. Dr. Mark Gstohl is CAT+FD's Associate Director for Programming. He's also an associate professor in the Theology Department who has taught at Xavier since 2000. Links for this episode: ChatGPT Text to Speech Free (we used this tool to give ChatGPT a spoken voice) Artificial Intelligence “Bootcamp” for Xavier Faculty Spring 2023 Transcript: Bart Everson: You may remember way back in episode #114, I interviewed ChatGPT, and we had quite an interesting conversation. We thought we'd turn the tables now and have ChatGPT ask the questions. So, without further ado, here's an interview between ChatGPT an

A conversation with Jayalakshmi Sridhar and Floristina Payton-Stewart about an exciting upcoming workshop opportunity — open to faculty in any discipline who are interested in a deliberative approach to science communication. Staff welcome too! Download flyer ~ Register now

(Published 15 May 2023) A conversation between ChatGPT and Bart Everson on teaching, learning, and artificial intelligence. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI. It's been in the news a lot since its launch in late 2022. Bart Everson is a media artist and creative generalist at Xavier University's Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development. His recent work draws on integrative learning, activism, critical perspectives on technology, and Earth-based spiritual paths. Links for this episode: ChatGPT Text to Speech Free (we used this tool to give ChatGPT a spoken voice) AI²: Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity (CAT+FD's Feb. 2023 workshop on AI) Transcript: Read more: Conversation #114: ChatGPT on Artificial Intelligence Bart Everson: Welcome to the podcast. I'm Bart Everson, and today I'm chatting with ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence program that's been in the news a lot ever since being launched by OpenAI on November 30th of 2022. Can you introduce yourself to our listeners and tell them a few things they might want to know about you? ChatGPT: Thank you, Bart! I'm ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI. I've been trained on a vast amount of text data from diverse sources to generate human-like responses and assist with a wide range of topics. I can provide information, answer questions, engage in conversations, and even offer creative suggestions. However, it's important to note that while I strive to be helpful and accurate, I'm an AI program and not a human. My responses are generated based on patterns in the training data, and I don't possess personal experiences or emotions. Bart: That's very inter

Our guest is Justin Ross-Hillard. He is the principal of The Net Charter High School in Central City. It is currently the longest running alternative high school in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It started as one school but was replicated into two schools and soon it acquired another existing alternative high school last year. Mr. Ross-Hillard also serves as a board member for The New Orleans Public Library. His emphasis on the board is how the library system addresses early childhood education as well as community interactions. He has been pastor for seven years but he’s been a minister for about 20 years. He is a husband and a father of three school aged kids. Mr. Ross-Hillard graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana with a BA in Theology. This is a recording from his presentation to Dr. Mark Gstohl’s class The Ideal Society. Dr. Gstohl is an associate professor in the Theology Department who has taught at Xavier since 2000. He is currently serving as CAT+FD’s Associate Director for Programming; he formerly served as CAT+FD’s Faculty in Residence for Service Learning from 2010-2013. His service-learning projects, Little Free Library projects, and work with local artist Jacqueline Ehle Inglefield at A Studio In the Woods helped him to win the Top 100 Leaders in Education by the Global Forum for Education & Learning in 2021, in recognition of his contribution to the field of education.

A conversation with Jayalakshmi Sridhar, Floristina Payton-Stewart, and Richard Peters about an exciting upcoming workshop opportunity — open to faculty in any discipline who are interested in a deliberative approach to science communication. Download flyer ~ Register now