"Dear / -Sam,"

E0 - Prototype - Advay, Jo & Zeke

A conversation with Orion Kidder, clinical assistant professor in Humanities, on the Vancouver campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, where Orion is the coordinator of the academic writing centre and teaches Composition, Professional Writing, Communication, as well as Literary Studies.

Teaching English writing to a student cohort with a majority of non-native writers, Orion has been on the frontline of the attack "generative AI" has carried out on traditional assessment. We discuss his (ongoing) response, his position on AI, his views as to the future of the technology in education - after which chatting about his research on comic books is a welcome respite.

Orion on Mastodon

Chapters:
00:05 Introduction
01:27 Teaching English writing to majority non-native English writers#
02:45 The arrival of generative AI
04:31 Disgression on The Bubble
05:00 Institutional attitude to AI
06:20 Redesigning assessment modalities in response
08:13 Incentive structures for overseas students in Canada
10:24 Misconduct in formative assessment?
11:13 On academics using AI
12:36 The point of essays
13:53 Do profs underestimate the prevalence of AI-misconduct?
14:54 Perspective from the Academic Skills Centre
15:50 Wishing for the collapse of a Bullshit Industry
16:35 But this will deepen educational in equality.
17:01 On the economics of the AI industry
18:46 Co-optation of AI by the higher ed. sector.
19:33 Productivity and 'boss-brained' users
21:34 But isn't there a valid pedagogical use?
24:10 Education reacting rather than responding
25:25 Precedents in failed education trends and education moral panics
27:17 Is there hope for Gen Z students?
31:00 Orion's comic book research
33:21 End bit.

E1 - Orion

I'm doing a PhD on Generative AI in Higher Education. This is the public, audio side of my research, presented informally.

Literally a preview of research in a low-key way.

Do you see what I did there?

"Dear / -Sam,"

Low Key Research Preview: GenAI and Higher Ed

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