Curious about the latest in AI and how it’s shaping work at Middlebury? This session highlights new developments in AI tools for teaching and research, on campus and beyond. Join us for a fast-paced, practical look at what’s happening now and what’s coming next. Co-facilitated with Middlebury College Research & Instruction Librarians. I don’t think […]
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As Middlebury closes the MIIS campus, we are also closing our non-credit online offerings.1 The courses were in Canvas and they used Badgr/Parchment to award badges.2 Of course Instructure ended up changing the rules around using Badgr/Parchment half way through and so, absent money, it stopped working. Pro-tip folks, don’t use any freemium stuff for […]
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I didn’t think we were doing very well with technology and building technological intuition1 prior to AI. We were not, with any degree of consistency or scale, helping people understand how to use technology to augment simple thinking, let alone preparing them to augment their thinking in new and different ways. I look back to […]
When I was teaching 6th grade history back in the very early 2000s1 I made this image to make some connection between George Washington’s strength and some SOL fact. It was silly. It’s just a thing to help it stick in their minds, make a boring fact visual, and maybe make a kid laugh.2 At […]
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I had a faculty request for a way to generate target-language audio from a provided script. In this case the language was Russian. I tried it Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude as a normal prompt but all of them failed pretty badly. Listen to Claude’s attempt here. ChatGPT gave up on it. Gemini got completely confused […]
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Google put out several OpenStax textbooks in NotebookLM format. One of our faculty was interested in how that’d work in physics but that was not one of the options currently available. Looking at what was happening, it just looked like they chopped up the PDF into chapters and pre-generated some of the NotebookLM studio options. […]
As I tell my kids . . .1 Me: Remember Jim Groom? Kid 1: The guy who shaved his head in our downstairs bathroom? Kid 2: Bava bloody, bava? Kid 3: From that creepy baby picture? Kid 4: The guy you made a pumpkin carving of? Kid 5: That guy on Santa’s lap? Kid 6: […]
My goal this morning was to see if I could tie in the OpenAI API for a project where I uploaded images to WordPress and it automatically extracted the text from the image. Since I’ve been using the OpenAI API previously and had a decent amount of success with text extraction, I went ahead and […]
Given I’m making a vibe coding presentation/workshop, this example seemed worth breaking down. I think it shows how different it can be to look at what’s going on in AI code generation scenarios if you have a foundation in programming and if you’ve developed a mental map of how things work/don’t work. A friend sent […]
There’s so much about how AI is for coding and that coding is a solved problem there. I am less sure, but I usually am. I see AI regularly returning an entirely wrong language, let alone providing good, secure, modern, and clean code. I keep messing around with it in various ways. Here is a […]