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This is where the long discussion in the last post and its comments got to. Note that although I have more than the usual knowledge in several of the areas under discussion, I am not competent overall to produce or validate this analysis. Gemini 3: Executive Briefing: The Political Economy of Healthcare Debt Subject: Beyond [ ]
She and her family lived in a neatly landscaped neighborhood near Cleveland. They had a six-figure income and health insurance through her job. Then, four years ago, when Monroe was pregnant with twin girls, something started to feel off. I kept having to come into the emergency room for fainting and other symptoms, recalled Monroe, [ ]
There s a/n in/famous visual representation of the situation in Afghanistan (from the occupying perspective). Here it is: I ve got lots of students working on complex systems now, but I don t show this to all of them. I showed it to one just now, who said, wow, that s beautiful; wow, that s a lot; wow, I really [ ]
Last semester a smart student and I experimented with getting AI (Gemini and Claude, iirc) to generate long reports (20-ish pages) of the sort well educated people are called upon to produce from time to time. Mine was on how to build out an interdisciplinary studies curriculum. Theirs was a technical analysis of an obscure [ ]
Guided learning is one of the new tools in Gemini. I did this on the screen in class (introductory world history, general topic sugar) as a companion to primary source analysis research the students were doing with their own favorite robots. I don t love the chirpy pedagogical voice and it s still not adapting to the [ ]
I used the template I developed in the Claude course design chat. The robot also generated a source guide with links, which is not immediately useful but gets in the ballpark. Modern World History: The Sugar System 16-Week Implementation Guide Student-Facing Course Overview (One Page) What we re doing: Using sugar to understand how the modern [ ]
Review the attached transcript of a course design chat with Gemini. Discuss. How can we improve on this?Edit This transcript reveals a fascinating pedagogical design process, but also exposes some critical tensions and missed opportunities. Let me analyze what s working and where improvements are needed. What s Working Well Authentic Voice Development: The progression from generic [ ]
Conversation with Gemini Can you read a blog website and use it as context? Show thinking Yes, I can read the content of a blog website and use it as context to answer your questions, summarize the information, or perform other tasks based on the provided text. Please provide the URL of the blog post [ ]
Our old heat pump pumped its last this week. This was not unexpected; in fact we got ten years out of the old unit that was here when we bought the place, which before that had sat idle for a couple years and before that was who knows how old. Old enough anyway that our [ ]
I m thinking about generative AI a lot these days. It s important. How it s important is not clear (to anyone) and rapidly evolving. It means things for what I teach and how I teach and why I teach that I m disrupted by, without any immediate hope of resolution. But in the meantime, there are classes to [ ]