In my last post, I created a 12-minute-long video of a live presentation that I do for our schools at the FHQ Tribal Council. There were two critiques that I had. First, it was too long. Second, the video editing was rough….
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Major Project Idea
Everything I do in work, my art, and the university is always in draft mode. It never feels like anything is ever completed. Leonardo Da Vinci is attributed to saying, “Art is never finished. It is only ever abandoned.” This is what I…
Continue readingReplacing Chalkboards with Whiteboards: Unchanging School and Digital Monoculture
***WARNING***This became a rambling number of thoughts in my head, and it took me a while to weave all the disparate threads together.In 1995, I was in the last year of my undergraduate degree in Arts Education. I remember NASA announcing that a …
Continue readingEvaluating "Digital Citizenship" in Schools
IntroductionI was fascinated by the idea of studying a “digital citizenship” program that could be based on Ribble’s Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship and Westheimer & Kahne’s concept of “democratic education.” I read a few more articles on…
Continue readingThe ResearchRabbit Conundrum: Potential Future or Just Another Tool?
So, on Tuesday night, when Alec briefly showed us some AI tools, I had seen most of them (or versions like them) until ResearchRabbit.ai. Holy ****! My work just got a lot easier. This, of course, was my initial reaction. A…
Continue readingUsing AI to help me conceptualize.
In a recent class, I was introduced to a thought-provoking lecture by Dr. Patti Lather, delivered at the University of Regina on March 24, 2015. Her knowledge of methodology frameworks and theories made me question my own area of research about creativ…
Continue readingEmbracing AI in Education – Raising the Bar
Whack-a-mole won’t work,For AI is but a tool,Change is at the door.I recently stumbled upon a TikTok video that genuinely resonated with me. An interviewer asked, “How do you know your paper wasn’t written by ChatGPT?” The response from the woman (who …
Continue readingEmbarking on a Digital Journey: First Impressions of EC&I 832 – September 5, 2023
Crisp leaves underfoot,First day of class, minds awake,Autumn whispers change.IntroductionIt has begun. I am on a new academic journey toward my doctorate, and I am in EC&I 832: Digital Citizenship and Media Literacies. It is a pretty ob…
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