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Posted on: #iteachmsu
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almost 3 years ago
Posted on: #iteachmsu
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about 1 year ago
I might have to fire Microsoft Copilot if it doesn't catch on soon. . . Let me explain. The second week of each semester, once enrollments have stabilized, I form my classes of 50 students into 10 student learning teams that will collaborate each week through Week 14. In the past, I have used a free, completely random online team-builder app to do this. It's a little time consuming, but basically pretty easy.
This summer, as I was developing 10 podcast episodes that address how we might better integrate GenAI into our classrooms (see The Collaborative Cafe@WSTKS-FM Worldwide on Youtube), it occurred to me that I might be able to engineer more cohesive student learning teams by collecting information from students on Day #1 about their academic strengths and preferences. My idea was to use Copilot to group students in such a way that each person would bring unique talents, skills and abilities to the collaborative table, making for stringer teams that would work more effectively together.
Sounds easy enough, right? Dine in just a few minutes, right? Au contraire!
Actually, I ended up spending at least as much time, if not more, double-checking Copilot's problematic output. Here's what it and I kept running into. Despite a fairly straightforward prompt, Copilot neglected to include ALL students in the class list and doubled or tripled up on other names, randomly ignoring some names and their assets/preferences while assigning others to two or three learning teams at the same time. This happened more than once despite repeated attempts to clarify my initial prompt(s), and Copilot never managed to correct its errors.
In the end, quite a bit of additional time was necessary to comb through what Copilot spit out and fix its mistakes to ensure all 50 students in each section were, in fact, assigned to five-person learning teams. What should have taken five minutes at most, took more than two hours when all was said and done. Time I had not anticipated and don't really have to waste.
Sigh. A rather frustrating way to start the semester. Live and learn, right?
This summer, as I was developing 10 podcast episodes that address how we might better integrate GenAI into our classrooms (see The Collaborative Cafe@WSTKS-FM Worldwide on Youtube), it occurred to me that I might be able to engineer more cohesive student learning teams by collecting information from students on Day #1 about their academic strengths and preferences. My idea was to use Copilot to group students in such a way that each person would bring unique talents, skills and abilities to the collaborative table, making for stringer teams that would work more effectively together.
Sounds easy enough, right? Dine in just a few minutes, right? Au contraire!
Actually, I ended up spending at least as much time, if not more, double-checking Copilot's problematic output. Here's what it and I kept running into. Despite a fairly straightforward prompt, Copilot neglected to include ALL students in the class list and doubled or tripled up on other names, randomly ignoring some names and their assets/preferences while assigning others to two or three learning teams at the same time. This happened more than once despite repeated attempts to clarify my initial prompt(s), and Copilot never managed to correct its errors.
In the end, quite a bit of additional time was necessary to comb through what Copilot spit out and fix its mistakes to ensure all 50 students in each section were, in fact, assigned to five-person learning teams. What should have taken five minutes at most, took more than two hours when all was said and done. Time I had not anticipated and don't really have to waste.
Sigh. A rather frustrating way to start the semester. Live and learn, right?
Posted on: #iteachmsu
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over 4 years ago
MSU purchased a campus-wide pass, so all MSU Faculty, Staff and Students can attend next week's OLC Innovate virtual conference free of charge.
Registration instructions: https://iteach.msu.edu/iteachmsu/groups/iteachmsu/stories/1557
Sponsored by MSU IT and MSU Hub.
Registration instructions: https://iteach.msu.edu/iteachmsu/groups/iteachmsu/stories/1557
Sponsored by MSU IT and MSU Hub.
Posted on: #iteachmsu
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over 5 years ago
Food for thought as I move into the new year (and hopefully transition out of graduate school and into FTE at a university)... happy to chat about this piece here or in person over coffee!
https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01
https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01
Disciplinary Content
Posted on: Reading Group for Student Engagement and Success
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over 3 years ago
Hello everyone! Here is my contribution to next Friday's session, a recent article by Zhonggen Yu, The Effects of Gender, Educational Level, and Personality on Online Learning Outcomes During the Covid-19 Pandemic (2021). Looking forward to seeing you this Friday, February 11th.
Posted on: #iteachmsu
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about 1 year ago
On an AI-related note, I just finished a 10-minute podcast episode for my current batch of students entitled "if You're Gonna Use AI. . ." Here's the link if you're interested in how I'm encouraging/advising my students to proceed, albeit with caution and care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfzCrhR6HWI
Posted on: Reading Group for Student Engagement and Success
Posted by
almost 4 years ago
I'm re-posting the Zoom info for our meeting below for anyone who may need it. I'm also going to be linking to this post in the Logistics playlist, so you can always check there to access this persistent meeting link for any of our future discussions.
Join Zoom Meeting https://msu.zoom.us/j/95148307886
Meeting ID: 951 4830 7886
Passcode: 432210
Join Zoom Meeting https://msu.zoom.us/j/95148307886
Meeting ID: 951 4830 7886
Passcode: 432210
Navigating Context
Posted on: Power Automate/Apps Users
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over 1 year ago
Do you use Copilot in Power Automate? I have only had moderate success with having Copilot outline flows for me, but I have found it useful that I can have Copilot write plain language descriptions of flows I have created. This helps me with a recurring question I have when making a new flow: 'How did I do this the last time?"