Jeff Nugent – The Learning & Applied Innovation Digital Garden

February 1, 2023

Here Comes chatGPT…Paradigm Shift or Higher Ed Hype Cycle?

With the start of the Spring 2023 semester, educators from K-12 through university were greeted with a barrage of headlines like those below announcing the arrival of chatGPT… “Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?” “Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach” “ChatGPT is coming for classrooms. Don’t panic” “ChatGPT passes exams from law and business schools” The...

Digital Life/Learning/Teaching

October 20, 2022

Give me some Slack…

Give me some Slack! Well…maybe not. In a podcast I listened to recently, Ezra Klein interviews Cal Newport, and the ideas they discuss about the evolving nature of work and communication are fascinating. Newport, who is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown, traces an historical arc of workplace communication from email through Slack, and in the process introduces...

Digital Life/Learning

September 19, 2022

[Re]thinking the “Digital Native”…again…

Today’s college students seemingly navigate the complexities of the web as if it were like the air they breathe. Toting powerful mobile phones, they consume (and create) digital content in every major media format, (text, image, sound, video), communicate on multiple platforms, search for and access any conceivable resource…and entertain themselves. In an always on, always connected environment, they seem...

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Author: Jeff Nugent

Here Comes chatGPT…Paradigm Shift or Higher Ed Hype Cycle?

Give me some Slack…

[Re]thinking the “Digital Native”…again…