Tag Archives: for educators

ChatGPT and email

Posted on May 6, 2024 by Robert Basil

As a university prof, I both teach and, to some extent, accommodate AI platforms in the classroom. This has been a daunting, trying, and humbling experience that requires continual adjustment and correction. But there is no way around it. The … Continue reading →

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Autofilling the Data Gaps

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Robert Basil

My macroeconomics professor at The University at Buffalo told our class, at semester’s end, that people in his profession “had a lot to be humble about.” I loved that line and have used it hundreds of times since, to describe … Continue reading →

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The work international students must do in B.C.

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Robert Basil

Several years ago my late Kwantlen colleague Arley McNeney organized a class project in which her students presented research on the challenges international students at our school face. I was embarrassed when I read their report; I had been so … Continue reading →

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Ethan Mollick on Using Artificial Intelligence in Student Writing

Posted on July 25, 2023 by Robert Basil

I have added Ethan Mollick’s substack blog, “One Useful Thing,” to our Resources list (above). A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Mollick writes that he’s “trying to understand what our new AI-haunted era means for … Continue reading →

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Rethinking is thinking.

Posted on May 13, 2023 by Robert Basil

That’s my motto as the summer semester starts (orientations today). There will be a million more of these articles:

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“Prompt Engineering”

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Robert Basil

Even before my friend Chet fully explained to me what this term meant, I was on board with it. From Forbes the other day: The democratization of Artificial Intelligence and, specifically, the generative models boom seems to have changed everything. … Continue reading →

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“Pre-Planned Feelings”

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Robert Basil

We have discussed our friend Clarissa‘s opinions on American academia and other topics in the past. She is an Hispanic Studies professor at a midwestern public university whose blog is always vividly written (and is contentious by design, I would … Continue reading →

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Merry Xmas!

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Robert Basil

From the great Bryan Garner: You can buy the new, 5th edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage here.

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This can go a long way

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Robert Basil

This semester I asked a student of mine who’s in my university’s HR program whether human resources professionals needed to actually like people. (I wish I remember why I asked!) She told me nobody had ever asked her that question … Continue reading →

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