@ollied

I'm a digital provocateur.

 Hummelstown, PA
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Happy New Year! the8blog.wordpress.com/2025/… via @ollied

Happy New Year!

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may be wondering where I’ve been. I started writing in this space in the Fall of 2009 and have largely been contributing weekly posts for th…

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Paying it forward the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Paying it forward

This semester, I am teaching two seven-week classes back-to-back. This creates an odd experience where classes end and begin within days of each other. It’s literally that abrupt. Last Monday…

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Pocketful of Kryptonite the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Pocketful of Kryptonite

I originally shared this post in September 2022. I’m resharing this post mostly as a reminder that a teacher’s ability to care can be their greatest strength. And their greatest weaknes…

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Leaving Things Better the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Leaving Things Better

When I first started teaching, I was a “floater,” which meant that I never had a classroom of my own. I’d teach one period in one teacher’s classroom and the next period in …

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AI: Neither Hero nor Villian the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied #GenAI #ChatGPT

AI: Neither Hero nor Villian

Throughout the last forty or fifty years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been portrayed in various ways in the media. For example, think about how AI shows up on film. Two of my earliest memories…

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Driving Directions the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied #GenAI

Driving Directions

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we teach prompt writing to beginners. A few weeks ago, I shared some exercises to help folks learn how the prompts they write can change the outputs from a …

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Permeable the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Permeable

This post was originally shared in November 2022. I’m resharing it as a reminder to me (and maybe to you) that despite our best efforts, our classrooms can’t be quarantined from the res…

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Prompt Writing Exercises the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Prompt Writing Exercises

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post discussing the approach that many folks have been sharing with prompt writing for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. I’ve attended profes…

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Cheating in the Age of Generative AI the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Cheating in the Age of Generative AI

For the last week or two, I’ve been working on a generative artificial intelligence presentation (genAI) that I will give at a local school district tomorrow. I’ve titled the presentati…

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Four Hours the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Four Hours

It’s been a busy few days so I’m offering this post from March 2022 as a rerun. Enjoy. A few weeks ago, I volunteered at my son’s school. The school hosted a competition that attr…

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Philanthropy and Legacy the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Philanthropy and Legacy

A few weeks ago, I posted a list of books I’m reading this summer. I just finished Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America (St…

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Unclogging the Jam the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Unclogging the Jam

I jammed my garbage disposal this weekend. I was washing some dishes and rinsing out a bowl with some leftover popcorn kernels. When the kernels went down the drain, I wondered whether the disposal…

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A Reading Assignment the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

A Reading Assignment

Last week, I shared a list of professional books that I was reading this summer. This week, I’m going to give you a reading assignment. It’s a daunting one, but I think you’re up …

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My Summer Reading List the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

My Summer Reading List

This post is late. I write a post like this almost every year, but it usually comes out in late May or early June as I prepare for a summer vacation. A friend emailed a few weeks ago and asked, …

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Not a Bug the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Not a Bug

If you’ve interacted with educational technologists for any length of time, you’ve probably heard someone say, “It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.” It’s one o…

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Themes Overheard the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied #GenAI #GenAIinEduc

Themes Overheard

Last week, I facilitated a week-long graduate institute that examined AI in Education. The institute brought in a bunch of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) experts and educational thought…

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Not an Algorithm the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Not an Algorithm

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we teach writing, problem-solving, and scientific experimentation. In most cases, there’s an attempt to present this stuff in a step-by-step…

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The Words We Use the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

The Words We Use

I know I’ve been writing about generative artificial intelligence (genAI) a lot recently, but I think my level of focus reflects the impact the technology is having on teaching and learning. …

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Exploring the Myth of the AI First Draft the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Exploring the Myth of the AI First Draft

I listened to the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast recently and heard an episode with Leon Furze, an educational consultant from Australia who is also the author of the book, Practical AI Strategies, …

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Four Energies the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/… via @ollied

Four Energies

It’s been a busy week or two as I’m preparing to host a graduation party for my son. Throw in a few summer classes and it’s been kind of hectic. So, I’m running this rerun f…

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