Bloom's Sixth

 By Doug WardI talk frequently about the need for faculty members to experiment with and adapt their teaching to generative artificial intelligence.During a CTE session last week, an instructor mentioned how difficult that was, saying that “the landscape of AI is changing so rapidly that it seems impossible to keep up with.”I agree. Not only that, but the rapid changes in generative AI seem to increase the pace of life. Daniel Burrus writes that “the world has shifted from a time of rapid…

Dear sleep deprived colleagues, We ask you to take a few minutes to consider these not-so-solemn words. Full disclosure: You have all been muted for the duration of this speech.   Abraham Lincoln was forced to cover his face after seeing this adaptation of his Gettysburg Address. Four score and 700 years ago (or so it seems), the coronavirus brought forth on this campus a new semester, conceived in haste, cloaked in masks, and dedicated to the proposition that all Zoom meetings suck the life from us equally. Now we are engaged in a great civil chore, testing whether this…

SAN FRANCISCO – A sense of urgency pervades this year’s meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities(link expired). The tenets of a broad, liberal education have been under assault at the state and national level, many Americans have grown skeptical of the cost – and debt – that college brings, and the terms “evidence” and “value” seem mandatory in any conversation about higher education. The sessions at the AAC&U’s annual meeting this week have been filled with discussions about telling the story of liberal education, effecting change across departments and…