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Margie Whiteleather's avatar

I really appreciated this, especially the question of how much future use of AI will be in existing applications vs in AI-specific tools, and thanks for the links you included.

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Bryan Alexander's avatar

Thank you, Margie. I'll keep sharing links - and we should watch for the immersion of AI into apps.

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Derek Moore's avatar

Thanks Bryan. Very helpful. Shard on Bsky. Where I see you are also to be found.

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Bryan Alexander's avatar

Belated thanks, Derek. Yes, I'm angling in Bluesky. We'll see where it goes.

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Derek Moore's avatar

Thanks Bryan. Not sure if I can keep this up. ButI’m attempting to keep my bsky account for my AI resistance and use mastodon ( https://social.ds106.us/@weblearning ) for proper ed tech conversations. A dumb distinction, because of AI looming integration. And real (declarative, procedural etc) knowledge can’t be compartmented.

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Bryan Alexander's avatar

Gotcha. Just followed you on Mastodon.

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Derek Moore's avatar

Twitter is fun for observing the boosters. But I no longer engage there.

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Bryan Alexander's avatar

I'm still getting some good interactions on Twitter/X.

More on LinkedIn, actually.

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Derek Moore's avatar

I’m pleased and proud to say that I have an irrational dislike for LinkedIn. 🫤

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Bryan Alexander's avatar

Well, it is the least exciting, least sexy, least talked about social network. And its interface is ancient. I agree with all of this.

But! Over the past few years I've found I tend to get reliably recent comments and find some good posts. I haven't read or done a study as to why - I'm curious about who uses LinkedIn this way - but I appreciate the discussion. More than on some other platforms.

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Gerald Ardito's avatar

Thanks so much for these notes. It tracks very much what is happening in my institution. I was particularly taken by your comments on the hype cycle and the adoption model.

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Bryan Alexander's avatar

Thank you, Gerald.

Can you say more about what people are doing at your campus?

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Gerald Ardito's avatar

We have formed a learning community to explore how to incorporate AI tools and reach digital literacy. Also, I am the director of a program that prepares K-12 CS teachers and I have developed a course on AI in Education.

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Bryan Alexander's avatar

Excellent on both counts. Delighted to learn about your class - are any materials shareable?

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Gerald Ardito's avatar

All feedback, comments, and suggestions welcome.

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Derek Moore's avatar

Thanks Gerald. I appreciate your comments and use of GitHub. Followed you there.

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Gerald Ardito's avatar

Thanks so much.

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