Strong opinions, loosely held, in and around Teaching, Technology, and AI’s impact on Higher Education.
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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…
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DeepSeek | Solve for X
In the last month, another AI appeared as if it had just “fallen out of the sky,” to borrow the phrase many media pundits used. It evoked a similar sense of amazement to what surrounded OpenAI’s ChatGPT when it debuted over two years ago. This time, however, Chinese startup DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through the…
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Whisk up some AI images?
“Prompt less, play more” is the slogan for Google’s new service, Whisk, fresh out of their Experiments lab. Bringing with it features that blend the strengths of DALL-E and Adobe’s FireFly engines: And new questions of copyright infringement? Whisk UI and UX From the start, Whisk has a simple drag-and-drop reference image interface where you…
