Author: Jason

In week 8 of our class Dean brought in Chris Kennedy, Superintendent of West Vancouver School Division and a leader in AI. I told him my school, and many Saskatchewan divisions are behind the times and slow to create their own policies around AI. I asked him where do we start? Where can we look?…

For my Dad’s 70th birthday, my gift was a road trip. Just him and I. We headed south of Regina down highway 6, turned onto highway 13 towards Weyburn and then drove through to Moose Mountain Provincial Park. He guided us through the back roads to where him and his buddies have been hunting for…

Back in my day, if you wasted your time watching TV or playing video games, you were referred to as a vidiot. This is a great amalgamation of two words video and idiot. I didn’t have a gaming system in the 80’s or 90’s as a youngster but I sure did waste a lot of…

When I first signed up for this course, I thought it would be about creating online programming for students who worked from home or had poor attendance. Yeah, I skimmed the course description. I’m so glad I half-assed my due diligence and didn’t really know what I was getting myself into. I was completely wrong…

Why Ed Tech is Not Endorsing a Ban on ChatGPT in Schools was the most influential article of the week for me. “The best way to navigate the reality of ChatGPT, and AI tools like it, is to learn to work with them instead of against them, because technology like this isn’t going anywhere.” I…

The past couple weeks I have been exploring the tip of the iceberg in regard to artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative artificial intelligence. I made an account on the OpenArt website, to dabble in some digital doodling. I wrote the prompt “A fox in a chair sitting beside a man who is also in a…

It ‘twas a cold Christmas Eve, twenty some years ago, and I could not sleep, so I got on to my parents’ dial up computer, to play Literati on Yahoo. This game was very much like Scrabble and was super fun to play. I ended up playing numerous games with a lady from Australia. At…

This is my 28th year in education and my 6th year in administration. I consider myself to be quite adept in a number of areas, including teaching reading strategies, using math manipulatives to teach algebra, building relationships with students and their families, coaching basketball and teaching athletes how to complete a lay-up, and having fun…

I am just figuring this all out and hope to add my first legit post this weekend. We shall see what happens. https://tenor.com/view/go-for-it-you-can-do-it-encourage-do-it-gif-14006408