I had a bit of a spat with m Chatbot this morning. I was reading a post by Doc Searles on his blog. Searles wrote about his experience trying to use to answer a question about theme song for a podcast. He is the co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, along with Rick Levine, Christopher Locke…
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Using Bing AI to Fact Check
I was able to use the Bing Chat this morning to fact check the lecture at the Chautauqua. I’m trying to use Bing as my primary interface to generative AI as much as I can. It’s currently the best free version of Large Language Model, and I’m recommending for anyone who wants to learn more…
Avoiding Yak Shaving
What is Yak Shaving? One of my focus areas for the new year (though definitely not a “resolution” in the classic sense) was to develop a new website focused on Life/Work design. There are multiple challenges to focus including being distracted by shiny objects and a passion for yak shaving. What, you might ask, is…
Not Nearly the Threat I Thought I’d Be
One of the last presentations that I did before I finished at William and Mary was to Mark Hofer’s doctoral class on student engagement. The topic was engaging adult learners, and it gave me the opportunity to look back over my time at William and Mary and to think about how it was shaped to…
Requiem for a Dead Blog
When I met our new president for the first time. “Oh, you’re Gene Roche”, she said. “I looked at your web site.” That probably wasn’t a positive comment… The site hadn’t been updated in a year. It was a WordPress blog with a theme that had been pretty outdated when I installed it in 2016…
Writing my way to a retirement plan.
Yesterday, I posted an overview of a process that I had recommended to one of my former colleagues to help get started on the process of finding a possible focus for her retirement. She’s an extremely accomplished woman, with deep expertise in her field, a long record of achievement, and plenty of energy to invest…
Writing Your Way to a Meaningful Retirement
I’m in the midst of my third month of being “retired” from William and Mary and things are admittedly quite different than I had imagined. In this series of posts, I’m going to share some ideas about how to move into a new life role as a “retired person” post pandemic. In July of 2019,…
Owning Your Own Future
One of the last pieces that I read as I was leaving Williamsburg last summer was an column by Tom Friedman that captured many of the the central themes for our course this fall. The central idea of the article is certainly one that resonates with me: the increase in the power of computer technology…
Teaching Center Links
## Teaching Centers Syracuse University School of Information Science CNDLS: Georgetown Georgetown http://kaneb.nd.edu Notre Dame Center for Teaching and Learning University of Chicago Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning University of Washington Teaching and Learning Center The Center for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University MIT Teaching and…
More on Learning, Platforms and the Gig Economy
In this interview with Cathy Engelbert, CEO of Deloitte US, Tom Friedman expands on some of the central themes of this course, which I’ve written about earlier. (The Deloitte Center for the Edge is home one of my favorite education writers, John Seely Brown.) These documents provide a good starting place for considering the interactions…
