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I’m facilitating AI roundtables at my department’s Symposium and I’ve invited faculty members from across disciplines to share what they’re doing in their classes. I’v…

With a more traditional value chain, enlarging the source pool of licensed material is going to be the competitive advantage

Welcome to the first of the hybrid Speaker Series, From Plagiarism to Post-Plagiarism: Navigating the GenAI revolution in higher education with Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton.\\n\\nGenerative AI (GenAI) is transforming teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education. Learn to integrate GenAI effectively while maintaining academic integrity and enhancing student agency. \\nDr. Eaton shares innovative strategies that promote critical thinking and original scholarship. Explore how GenAI reshapes academic practices and discover proactive approaches to leverage its potential.\\nThis webinar equips educators, administrators, and policymakers to lead purposefully in a dynamic academic landscape.\\n\\nWhat is CAIELI?\\nCentre for Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Literacy and Integrity (CAIELI) at UCalgary is a collaboration between Libraries & Cultural Resources and Werklund School of Education. This transdisciplinary student-focused initiative aims to encourage effective and ethical use of AI on campus.

Higher education is undergoing a seismic shift with the advent of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies. In this session we explore the transformative impact of GenAI on teaching, learning, and assessment practices in a rapidly evolving academic environment. Join us as we explore challenges and opportunities presented by GenAI, examining how it reshapes our understanding of academic integrity, student agency, and authentic assessment. Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton will discuss innovative strategies for integrating GenAI into educational practices while maintaining the core values of academic integrity, critical thinking, and original scholarship. This webinar is essential for educators, administrators, and policymakers who are grappling with the implications of AI in higher education and seeking proactive approaches to harness its potential. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to: 1. Understand the concept of post-plagiarism as an impact of GenAI on traditional concepts of plagiarism and academic misconduct in higher education. 2. Identify strategies to foster student agency and critical thinking skills in an AI-augmented learning environment. 3. Formulate approaches to uphold and promote academic integrity in the context of widespread GenAI use in higher education. Recommended citation: Eaton, S. E. (2025, January 29). From Plagiarism to Postplagiarism: Navigating the GenAI Revolution in Higher Education Centre for Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Literacy, and Integrity (CAIELI): Generative AI Workshops, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. https://hdl.handle.net/1880/120649

With a more traditional value chain, enlarging the source pool of licensed material is going to be the competitive advantage

There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence (AI). When AI seems to make things up or distort reality — adding extra fingers

What the newest developments in artificial intelligence mean for faculty, staff and administrators.

One of my most successful experiments with artificial intelligence has been with Google’s NotebookLM product. While preparing the update to the Productivity Field Guide, I fed it everything from the prior version, plus transcripts from about 50 videos I recorded, as well as twelve webinars. I also included my research notes prepared for the 2025 edition.... Continue reading →

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We shouldn’t need any illusions to understand how generative tools might be useful. This obsession with anthropomorphization hinders our ability to understand what these systems can and cannot do, leaving us with a confused and muddled idea of their capabilities. An LLM’s ability to predict patterns is impressive and quite useful in many contexts, but that doesn't make it conscious.

The post reflects on metaphors used to discuss artificial intelligence, particularly introducing an origami analogy. It emphasises that AI outputs are intricately shaped by the training data like origami models are formed from a single sheet of paper. This analogy reveals insights into AI's limitations, creativity, and the nature of its outputs.

I recently came up with an interesting shortcut that writes an email for you combining ChatGPT instructions and a few regular expressions. It sounds complicated but it really isn’t. Check out this video and see for yourself. Download my shortcut for your own use: Sparky’s Email Machine Shortcut

Welcome to the More Than Words virtual book club! We'll be reading & discussing John Warner's new book—More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. We'll meet on Zoom about twice a month from June to August 2025—from 5:00-6:00 p.m. (EST). Tuesday, 3 June Tuesday, 17 June Tuesday, 22 July Tuesday, 5 August Tuesday, 19 August In the future, we'll be sending out the Zoom links, a reading schedule, and a sign-up list for those who wish to facilitate a meeting's conversation! If there are no objections, we'd like to record our Zoom meetings to share out to those who may not be able to attend. Any additional concerns (or questions) can be sent to David Buck (dbuck@howardcc.edu). Thanks!

Fascinating blog post by Vidit Bhargava (creator of the excellent LookUp dictionary app) about how he worked on his master thesis with the aid of Google’s NotebookLM. I used NotebookLM throughout my thesis, not because I was interested in it generating content for me (I think AI generated text and images are sloppy and classless);

What are AI agents capable of in real life?

In separate surveys, both college leaders and professors express concern.

In this special episode featuring season two bonus content, host Chris Linnane shares exclusive, unaired clips from his conversations with Harvard Business School faculty members on the topic of AI and navigating the future of the workplace. Tune in to hear from Sunil Gupta on marketing strategies, Anthony Mayo on effective leadership, Christina Wallace on entrepreneurial mindset, Felix Oberholzer-Gee on business strategy, and V.G. Narayanan on accounting. Catch up on Season 2 of The Parlor Room: Sunil Gupta on Data-Driven Digital Marketing Strategies: https://hbs.me/3j3jcpmw Anthony Mayo on What Makes an Effective Leader: https://hbs.me/3ttp4c56 Christina Wallace on Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset: https://hbs.me/2p87t4j8 Felix Oberholzer-Gee on the Frameworks of Business Strategy: https://hbs.me/yc3f5jb3 V.G. Narayanan on How Accounting Connects the Business World: https://hbs.me/mry92699 #artificialintelligence #business #futureofai #theparlorroom

A teacher (Ego Nwodim) shows an educational podcast hosted by AI (Timothée Chalamet, Bowen Yang) to her students. Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://pck.tv/3n1IyzK Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM Stream Current Full Episodes: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live WATCH PAST SNL SEASONS Google Play - http://bit.ly/SNLGooglePlay iTunes - http://bit.ly/SNLiTunes SNL ON SOCIAL SNL Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbcsnl SNL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/snl SNL Twitter: https://twitter.com/nbcsnl SNL TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nbcsnl GET MORE NBC Like NBC: http://Facebook.com/NBC Follow NBC: http://Twitter.com/NBC NBC Tumblr: http://NBCtv.tumblr.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/nbc NBC Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbc #SNL #SNL50 #TimothéeChalamet

A literature review of the most recent & important peer-reviewed studies

Students learn skills to help them distinguish fact from fiction in the world of AI.

Big AI companies have come out hard against comprehensive regulatory efforts in the West — but are receiving a warm welcome from leaders in many other countries.