Tonight I continued watching the QM Connect Conference session “The Future of AI: Shaping the Next Generation of Education.” The panelists included Roxana Medieros, Megan Van Buskirk, Jason Neiffer, Rob Gibson, and Siobahn Grady. Gibson spoke about including a “broad curriculum swath” in the committee for AI guidance needed on campuses. Grady spoke about guidance and committees at […]
Tonight I watched the QM Connect Conference session “The Future of AI: Shaping the Next Generation of Education.” The panelists included Roxana Medieros, Megan Van Buskirk, Jason Neiffer, Rob Gibson, and Siobahn Grady. The first question was: what do you think the role of AI will be in higher education? Van Buskirk spoke about using […]
Steve Kaufman, a senior instructional designer at the University of Akron, presented a session titled “The AI Empowered Instructional Designer.” Kaufman started with a statement: “This is the most exciting and simultaneously anxious time to work in education.” They described AI as the next disruptor. Kaufman then shared several quotes, including one describing how Google […]
Alejandro Gener from the Association of Public Health Laboratories & Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratories, presented at London Calling 2022. Gener presented on “Assembly deconvolution resolves SARS-CoV-2 haplotypes in Delta-Omicron co-infections.” They described that between December 2021 and January 2022 Delta and Omicron strains of SARS-CoV-2 were circulating. Public health labs had to rule […]
Continuing with Devin M. Drown’s work, today I watched their Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 session entitled “Portable genomics hackathon for pathogen detection: a practical application of adaptive sampling to engage undergraduate learning.” Drown is at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Drown explained that the MinION can be used to engage students in problem-solving and applications […]
Tonight I watched the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Laura Diaz-Martinez. This session was in late fall 2021. It was moderated by Dr. Tissyana Camacho, and Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at California State University. Dr. Diaz-Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Gonzaga and was my NSF ENCOUR pod mentor! […]
Tonight I watched the Online with LSE Webinar recording for the session “Diversity Interventions in the Classroom: From Resistance to Action.” Dr. Dustin Thoman from San Diego State University is a social psychologist that works in science education along with Dr. Melo-Jean Yap, Dr. Felisha Herrera Villareal, and Dr Jessi Smith (UCCS). As with other […]
Tonight I watched another Online with LSE Webinar Series recording. This presentation was entitled “A Framework of College Student Buy-in to Evidence-Based Teaching Practices in STEM: The Roles of Trust and Growth Mindset” featuring Dr. Cong Wang. This session was from about seven months ago. Wang worked with Mark Graham’s team at Yale as a […]
I am continuing with the JMBE Live YouTube playlist, and tonight I watched the recording for the session entitled “M-LoCUS: A Scalable Intervention Enhances Growth Mindset and Internal Locus of Control in Undergraduate Students in STEM” presented by Jeff Maloy. The session started with a Menti poll to gather information about the audience and their […]
It was a relaxing day with the family. Tonight I watched the JMBE Live recording for the session entitled “Increased Scaffolding and Inquiry in an Introductory Biology Lab Enhance Experimental Design Skills.” The presenters were Dr. Tess L. Killpack and Dr. Sarah Fulmer. Kilpack is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Salem State […]