In Professional Writing for Healthcare: Writing & Revising Research Summaries with Artificial Intelligence Heidi Mckee shares a writing assignment she designed for her Professional Writing for Healthcare course which she taught at the University of Miami. Mckee cites the goals of the assignment as “to provide opportunities for students to learn about writing research summaries Read More…
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Testing the limitations of AI: Can AI just be a tool, or will it always be misused?
Progressively over the last two years AI started to appear more within my life at school. Of course I had heard of AI before ChatGPT, however, ChatGPT was the talk of the town when I started the masters program. Rumors of students using it to write entire papers was something that was new to me, Read More…
Technophobia – AI in the Classroom
Technophobia is a very real phenomenon in academia. The fear of new technological innovations has permeated almost all academic institutions at one time or another. Concerns about the negative impacts of early word processing and email programs prompted studies when it was first heavily incorporated into academic environments and workplaces in the 1990’s. Similarly, the Read More…
AI in Education: Do We Really Have a Choice?
Way back in the 15th century, Johannes Trithemius, a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath, loathed the newfangled printing press and worried the invention would make monks, who typically copy text by hand, lazy. 1790: Reverend Enos Hitchcock blames novels for corrupting the minds and morals of youth. 1909: The Annual Report of the New York Read More…
AI; Who is it really helping, anyway?
When it comes to AI, my brain first goes to AI art. Then it goes to “God, I hate AI.”. As someone who has drawn for well over 14+ years, the idea of someone generating some half-baked dinosaur with arms that look just a little too uncanny valley and making millions off of it rubs Read More…
Hesitance with AI: You Can Be Afraid While Being Open-Minded
I think about how just last year, I was being introduced to AI for the first time. Now, I am learning how to implement it in a productive way in the classroom. I was originally terrified of AI, and maybe I still am. I never thought I would come to a place where I consider Read More…
Technology In The Classroom; A Helping Hand.
Being my first semester here teaching, but not my first time teaching students, I think I can say that I still have a lot to learn- and that group communication and help has been something I’ve really relied on, especially here at UMass. From getting advice from other Teaching Fellows to even other professors in Read More…
Learning is a two way street.
Sometimes when students will ask me questions, I feel like going, “Uhhh. I don’t know!” Because I don’t. It’s been quite an adjustment going from sitting in the classroom listening to someone, to tutoring students, to finally standing in the front of the room being known as the person who “knows all”. I feel Read More…
You’ve Got the Power!
Why Plain Language? How important is plain language and how big are its effects? Well, Kira Dreher at the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar says, ““Plain language may offer an important strategy for advancing social justice, but if used shallowly, it may deflect attention from vulnerable audience groups or other issues of access, and it Read More…
Always be Advocating: Technical Communicators and the Power of Rhetoric
I’ve Got the Power: Autumn in New England marks a transition of season and life. As the leaves change beautiful colors and wither away, teachers like myself are in a firestorm of late night grading and early morning teaching causing our complexion to change strange colors and wither away. The students are already beginning to Read More…