Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles discuss the accessibility of ChatGPT, talking about the challenges that people may face accessing the platform. Check out their conversation and hear how physical limitations such as location or funding can affect how users interact with ChatGPT. Podcast links Show notes ChatGPT can present concerns in terms of access because people’s varying circumstances will either help them or prevent them from utilizing it. Some students may have issues accessing the internet based on their location; therefore, they may not have the same access to ChatGPT as their peers. Larger corporations, however, larger corporations and technology companies…
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Transform Your Teaching: What is ChatGPT’s Philosophy of Education?
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles have a live conversation with ChatGPT. They ask it for its philosophy of education and discuss its responses. Check out their conversation and hear how Jared is going to implement ChatGPT into his summer course. Podcast links Show notes Rob and Jared discovered that ChatGPT (version 3.5) presents a rather constructivist philosophy of education, focusing on being student-centered, developing critical thinking, and creating opportunities for collaboration and cooperation. When pressed for the origins of this philosophy, ChatGPT referenced several prominent theorists, including Piaget and Vygotsky. Overall, Jared and Rob were relatively impressed with the answers but…
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ChatGPT’s Philosophy of Education
Reading Time: 5 minutes The following is a full transcript of questions Rob and Jared asked ChatGPT while recording “What is ChatGPT’s Philosophy of Education?” for Transform Your Teaching. What is your philosophy of education? As an artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI, I don’t have personal beliefs, emotions, or a philosophy. However, I can share a generalized philosophy of education based on the information I’ve been trained on. Education is fundamentally about empowering individuals to reach their full potential. This philosophy is informed by several key principles. These principles can guide education policy and practice, with the aim of creating a more just, inclusive, and intellectually stimulating learning environment. It’s…
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Transform Your Teaching: Education in the Age of AI – What is ChatGPT?
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles explore the origins of AI and how they led to ChatGPT. They discuss how AI’s continued growth has led to innovative tools as well as potential challenges in education. Check out the episode to hear them set the stage for the upcoming series on ChatGPT. Podcast links Show notes This episode sets the stage for our summer series exploring ChatGPT. Our conversation begins with how the web has changed: Web 1.0, the internet’s ”Stone Age,” featured static pages and one-sided conversations. Web 2.0, the ”Renaissance,” brought interactive pages; while Web 3.0 offered machine-readable, interoperable, and decentralized…
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Canvas Update: New Quizzes Rich Content Editor and Hiding Quizzes Worth Zero Points in Gradebook
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canvas is updating New Quizzes once again on June 17. With these updates, the Rich Content Editor (RCE) will now be available to both instructors and students, and instructors can choose to hide New Quizzes worth zero points in the gradebook. Rich Content Editor Canvas is finally enabling the Rich Content Editor in New Quizzes! With this change, the content editor you use everywhere else in Canvas will be what you use as you create New Quizzes – and it’s what students will use when they need to type any answers. Having the RCE in New Quizzes means that all features specific to it will be…
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Transform Your Teaching: The What, the Why, and the How of Technology Integration – Practical Tools
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles wrap up the “What, Why, How” series by discussing some of their favorite educational technology tools. Check out this episode to hear them geek out about ed tech. Podcast links Show notes Jared’s favorite tech tools: Rob’s favorite tech tools: From Jared’s Boise friends: We would love to get your feedback! Please fill out our survey to help improve our podcast and serve you better. Want to never miss a post? Subscribe here!
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Transform Your Teaching: The What, the Why, and the How of Technology Integration – Mental Models
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles continue to talk about technology integration, this time focusing on helpful mental models for educational technology best practices. Check out the episode to hear about the planning cycle model and how Backward Design illustrates those principles. Podcast links Show Notes Building mental models can help educators approach using technology in their courses. One such mental model is “the planning cycle” which begins with identifying needs and determining whether they are real needs or felt needs. Once the real needs are identified, SMART goals can be created based on those real needs. After goals are established, it’s…
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Canvas Updates: Publishing and Unpublishing Content in Modules
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canvas is updating how content is published in modules – and simplifying the process for publishing/unpublishing multiple items in their June 17 release. Previously, instructors would need to set the published/unpublished status on each module and each item within a module. So, if they wanted to unpublish an entire module to work on it, they would need to unpublish each item individually, then republish each item when they finished. Now with this update, the status of an entire module and its items can be changed at once! To use this new feature, click the drop-down publish/unpublish button for a module. You’ll see three items in…