Strong opinions, loosely held, in and around Teaching, Technology, and AI’s impact on Higher Education.
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A Future of Computing: CL1 and the Rise of Synthetic Biological Intelligence
Previously, I mentioned in a post about Quantum Computing and its implication on AI. One other medium science is look to for creating better, faster, more energy efficient machines for AI is neurons; human neurons. For geeks of science fiction, the concept of biological computers inevitably calls to mind the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica (a…
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Choose Your Own Adventure: “We’re Not Ready for Superintelligence”
I admit in advanced, this post may seem a bit more sci-fi over academic. But it’s easy to either get freaked out by AI or dismiss it altogether. Most people still view it as a slightly smarter Siri or a hit-or-miss “Hey Google.” Some see it as helpful sometimes, yet when it isn’t, just frustrating…
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State of AI in Higher Education | Summer 25 Edition
The views expressed are not to represent that of WWU, ATUS, or its subsidiary departments, and is intended as an op-ed of the author. -AJ The changing state of AI and its impact in higher education continues to become more and more complicated. There’s still a high level of concern among both faculty and students…
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Believable AI Video Creation, even from a Single Image
It is easy to get caught up in the negatives of AI video creation, especially as computing power continues to make things more lifelike and more believable at a quick glance. But in this post, I want to focus on the positive and the possibilities of what something like a tool like Google’s Veo could…
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From Spellcheck to Red Flags: Understanding AI Detection in Your Writing
How Much ‘AI’ Grammar Check Can Get Flagged as AI Writing? In this video, I’m taking a deep dive into an increasingly important topic in your coursework; how generative AI tools, like Grammarly, intersect with academic integrity at Western. In collaboration with the Academic Honesty Office, I break down a sample paper and show you…
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Deck Checking AI, like a Pokémon Professor?
As an educational technologist, I’m less interested in whether AI can churn out decent code or academic papers, but rather, I’m more interested in the thought process behind its output. Much like in the classroom, learning is much more than a final product in a class. As any teacher will tell you, we want to…
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An Accessibility Odyssey: Preparing Faculty for WCAG Compliance Before 2026
In 2024, the Department of Justice passed a ruling updating Title II and the ADA. With it, it brought on new mandate that all digital materials must meet WCAG compliance setting a course for higher education, public institutions, and federal agencies, making accessibility a legal requirement by April 2026. Yes, you read right, all digital…
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An Oncoming STORM for AI Academic Writing | Stanford STORM
“Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking” is a bit of a mouthful, but STORM is a Stanford AI research project that is a “writing system focusing on the pre-writing stage to generate long, grounded, Wikipedia-like article for a given topic from scratch.” In a single prompt, that is only 20 words or less.…
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Call into your own personal show about your notes | Google Notebook LM
Google’s Notebook LM has been subtly evolving since its initial release, and in this video, I take a look at a new beta feature to their podcast or Audio Overview feature. To recap, NotebookLM is designed as an AI-powered notebook that helps summarize and process notes, and introduced an interesting podcast-style feature for a new…
