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Using AI Text Levelling Tools

Condensing text has always struck me as one of gen-AI’s genuine strengths—especially with passages only a page or two long. Because colleagues and I constantly wrestle with teaching complex ideas to readers at wildly different levels, I decided to run a little experiment. I grabbed a section from an open Canadian-history textbook on Winnipeg’s waterContinue reading “Using AI Text Levelling Tools”

What do LLMs tell me to worry about?

I went a bit overboard. I started looking at two LLMs and then I just kept on adding one more to the list and then I ended up with a 20+ minute video and hours worth of unused footage and a look at how Meta AI, ChatGPT (v. o3), Deepseek, and Copilot handle the sameContinue reading “What do LLMs tell me to worry about?”

Learning Environment Analysis

The Learning Environment evaluation rubric was an interesting assignment for me, as I joined a group focused on post-secondary education, despite all of my teaching experience being at the middle and high school levels. Specifically choosing Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) as our organization provided an excellent opportunity to explore how technology could be leveragedContinue reading “Learning Environment Analysis”

Here’s where I want to go with this

Guten tag meine Leser! (Or to those of you not currently obsessed with working your way through the Duolingo German course—good day my readers.) For those of you new to my blog, willkommen! I’m Morgan, a secondary school teacher-librarian and current student in the Masters of Educational Technology program through the University of British Columbia.Continue reading “Here’s where I want to go with this”

Attending to Attention

Check out this link to take a sneak peak at 13 hours of my life, on what I thought would be a pretty chill, unstructured day. This time, featuring a Pig in Lipstick.

Media Convergence

This week I chose to focus my attention on Media Convergence, and you can view my MindMap on the topic here! Below, you can watch as Bovine Morgan takes you on a journey through his many thoughts about the topic.

Content Prioritization

Here’s a link to my assignment this week. I wanted to embed it directly into my blog, but some features weren’t working that way, and you deserve the full experience. You’ll find my references embedded in my presentation.

‘Artificial’ Intelligence

I went a bit overboard this week, something I may not be able to sustain long term – but I had a lot of fun putting this together! The animated video and clipart are courtesy of Adobe Express. References BBC News. (2016, January 26). AI pioneer Marvin Minsky dies aged 88. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35409119 Biography.comContinue reading “‘Artificial’ Intelligence”

But Can You Use It?

What is usability? Perhaps it is simpler to view usability through the lens of a stone age technology. The wheel proliferated because it is infinitely usable. To borrow from Issa and Isaias’ usability criteria (2015, p. 33), the wheel was easily understood and adopted across various cultures (learnability). It could be adapted for use inContinue reading “But Can You Use It?”

Historical Primary Source Analysis

Preface It is crucial to understand that marginalized populations are often constrained by the systems imposed by the dominant culture, through no fault of their own. What follows aims to offer a historical perspective on how these communities can become entangled in their own marginalization while trying to effect change from within systems that haveContinue reading “Historical Primary Source Analysis”