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What NotebookLM Remediates (and other LLM tools too for that matter)

Imagined as a rousing political speech, with patriotic music slowly swelling in the background. Colleagues, I know many of you are excited about NotebookLM, especially that uncannily almost-human podcast feature. We upload our readings, videos, and professional documents, then receive instant synthesis supporting multimodality and differentiated instruction. But I want us to consider what’s happeningContinue reading “What NotebookLM Remediates (and other LLM tools too for that matter)”

Why I Made Ed Tech Specialists Compare Search Results for My Professional Development Session on New Materialism

As a teacher-librarian, I’m constantly making decisions about which databases to subscribe to, which search tools to recommend, which encyclopedias to point students toward. These decisions often get framed as “neutral” by just providing access to information, offering students “the right resources.” But are they? This question started nagging at me during IP 2 whereContinue reading “Why I Made Ed Tech Specialists Compare Search Results for My Professional Development Session on New Materialism”

Ursula Franklin and Prescriptive Technologies

An assignment in which I didn’t quite follow the instructions properly, but came away with a greater understanding because of it. This video was made with the help of Adobe Podcasts and additional images and text were added in CapCut. References Black, E. (2001). IBM and the Holocaust : The strategic alliance between Nazi GermanyContinue reading “Ursula Franklin and Prescriptive Technologies”

TikTok-ing Education

When I read this assignment outline, I immediately thought of @etymologynerd. Adam Aleksic’s posts are uniquely meta. He explains the history of our spoken and printed words and shows how that history is shaped by the media we use. In doing so, he invites viewers to understand how we’re shaped by language, how language shapesContinue reading “TikTok-ing Education”