Author: Cana Fuest
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Make the machine work for you: Automate the boring stuff
My primary motivation for studying artifical intelligence has from the beginning been due to an interest in making it work for me as an educator. Traditionally, higher education has utilized teaching assistants to do the tedious tasks (such as grading) for university professors. However, in my experience, it is sometimes…
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Do challenging things…because you can.
People often categorize themselves by saying things such as, “I’m not good at math,” or, “I’m not a good writer.” These statements undermine the potential that everyone has to learn and grow and get good at things that they weren’t good at before. As an example, for most of my…
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Hypertext: “The Expanded Mind”
I’ve been thinking a lot about the history of technology, and how much of what we use today has roots in theories from the mid-twentieth century. I already wrote about how artificial intelligence got its start back in the 1950’s. Another piece of technology that finds its beginning before the…
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Pedagogical Recommender Systems
One of the “rabbit holes” I’ve fallen into during my PhD studies is an interest in pedagogical recommender systems (PRS). From what I have studied so far, these became popular in the earlier 2000’s. I have read several articles where researchers developed their own PRS for faculty use. But in…
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Collaborative authoring with GenAI: Gemini vs. ChatGPT
I conducted an experiment in my writing last week. I gave Gemini a chapter of my manuscript and asked it to write the next chapter in my voice. I gave it no clues as to the story plot but I did tell it to pace the story as if it…
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The 20th Century Path to Artificial Intelligence
I think many of us likely take it for granted that technology, such as artificial intelligence, exists for our use today. We are reaping the benefit of many decades of research in the field of cognitive science, brought to us by individuals such as Herbert Simon and Allen Newell (Doroudi,…
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What is “good” teaching?
Recently, someone in my family made the comment, “It seems kind of funny to have to learn how to teach, like that should be intuitive.” While I agree that some people seem naturally gifted as teachers, many others teach but do not put much thought into the scholarship of teaching…
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Creating blue bird art with DALL-E
This week I decided to play around with DALL-E on the StudyAid platform. I have a real love for the Eastern Blue Bird, so that was my subject in this creative endeavor. I hope you enjoy my AI art! This was my very first image: blue bird, field, sun. I…
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Using AI for course design: The future of pedagogy
I look forward to the day when AI pedagogical tools will be more accessible to teachers who might not have the budget to pay for a monthly subscription to develop GPTs for course design. While many larger schools have instructional design teams and access to more digital tools, smaller schools,…
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Sharing the load: Achieving balance between humans and LLMs
When I think about finding the right balance between users and computers, especially large language models (LLMs), I think of being assigned to a group in school: there is always the one person willing to do all of the work because they want a good grade. The trade off is…
Cana Fuest, PhD Candidate 