Yesterday I handed in my last assignments for my last course in my Master of Educational Technology degree through the University of British Columbia. While I won’t graduate until May, it marks the end of an era – just shy of six years I have been plucking away at courses through UBC, first with myContinue reading “What now, brown cow?”
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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”
Assignment 2 – Part 2 – Reflection Time
I love a good digital story—that’s the teacher‑librarian in me. So when Part II called for one, I went big. I split the module into three chunks: a gentle, non‑academic primer on LLM limitations; Shannon Vallor’s short talk on AI as a mirror; a practical on‑ramp via a choose‑your‑own‑adventure (CYOA) story; and then some hands onContinue reading “Assignment 2 – Part 2 – Reflection Time”
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?”
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