EP 14 - Back to School with AI Part 1

In this episode, John and Jason talk about going back to school, chat about how conversations have shifted to AI this year, ideate around making assignments unAI-able, and briefly rant about how AI detectors don’t work. 

 

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Resources:

• Dr. Brandeis Marshall’s Medium Article: What’s UnAI-able 
  • Follow Dr. Marshall on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandeis-marshall/ 
• Jason’s LinkedIn post about his AI detection testing this fall - Prove me wrong!
• EdUP Podcast with Jason Guyla and Wilson Tsu of PowerNotes

Transcript

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[00:00:00] John Nash: You ask me like, what am I doing differently now, this year is I'm abandoning decade longs teaching strategies that I've used in online courses. 

[00:00:08] Jason Johnston: That's impressive, John, that you're, that you're changing, 

[00:00:14] John Nash: I'm changing 

Intro

[00:00:15] John Nash: I'm John Nash here with Jason Johnston. 

[00:00:18] Jason Johnston: Hey John. Hey everyone. And this is Online Learning in the second half, the Online Learning podcast. Yes. 

[00:00:24] John Nash: We are doing this podcast to let you in on a conversation that we've been having for the last, now two and a half years about online education. Look online learning has had its chance to be great and a lot of it is, and there's still a lot that isn't.

And so I'm wondering how can we get to the next stage? What do you think? 

[00:00:44] Jason Johnston: Let's do a podcast and talk about it. What do you think? I think 

[00:00:49] John Nash: that's great. What do you want to talk about today?

Episode

[00:00:52] Jason Johnston: I would love to talk about back to school. Here we are coming back to school. The students are returning either virtually or in person. Parking is an issue again as and I'm assuming it's the same at your institution as it is Absolutely. At mine. Are you still biking to work? I am.

[00:01:10] John Nash: Oh, good for you. Yes. Yeah, on an e-bike. So it's a lovely little ride and so I, I do pedal, but I probably don't pedal as hard as I could. Because it's too alluring and fun to push the little electric accelerator lever and just go. 

[00:01:26] Jason Johnston: Technology enhanced commuting. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That's good.

You're not dealing with the same kind of parking issues. I'm still, I'm back in, I'm still back in 2023, where we used to use fossil fueled driven cars and look for parking spaces among everybody else. 

[00:01:46] John Nash: Yeah. Which my professor at the University of Wisconsin noted that the parking permit is really just a hunting license.

[00:01:54] Jason Johnston: That's exactly it. Yeah. Yeah. I had to go way out into the woods earlier this week in order to get myself and get myself my parking space. It's good. Here we are. Back at school. But but online does make it a little easier to park if everybody was online. As we're approaching back to school, John maybe, maybe there's some people that are joining us kind of partway through this podcast and haven't joined us from the beginning.

But as a little bit of an introduction I'm an administrator at a large SEC school in Tennessee. I'm the executive director of online learning and course production. And so my big thing is not teaching in the classroom, but helping instructors develop courses for the classroom, for the online classroom, and as well as supporting instructors on how to teach online.

So that's kind of what my day-to-day is about. How about you, John? What do you do day to day these days? 

[00:02:55] John Nash: Day-to-day, I'm an associate professor of educational leadership studies in a large SEC institution in Kentucky. Smart listeners can just figure out where we work. And then I am the Director of graduate studies in the same department.

And we are on all online instruction department. So I'm teaching online. I'm helping advise students who are in an online programs master's ed