Adam Grant, Organizational Psychologist, Wharton School Professor and writer of many recently popular books on personal improvement, believes he has the answer. But it’s not technological. Nor is it Blue Books. I found his recent essay “There’s Really Only One … Continue reading How to stop students from using AI to cheat?
Firebird can now host and run open-source large language models directly on the cluster using Ollama, a tool that makes it straightforward to pull down a model (and Ollama has LOTS of models!) and start working with it. Anyone with … Continue reading Running Open-Source LLMs on Firebird
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Important Information: New Course Content Accessibility Manager, Moving, and Fall Planning Welcome to a comprehensive guide on How to Master Essential Tech and Fall Teaching Resources. Bookmark this page to come back to it regularly for any summer or fall … Continue reading How to Master Essential Tech and Fall Teaching Resources
Grading is an important and time-consuming task. Careful, personalized feedback helps students learn, but timely feedback is a challenge. Swarthmore has few tools that handle simple grading automatically. Moodle quizzes can score multiple-choice questions and the WeBWorK math homework system … Continue reading The Ethics of Efficiency: Wrestling with AI-Generated Feedback
If you use the Google Suite, you’re no doubt familiar with the daily creep of Gemini and other Google-based AI tools into your documents. In Google Slides, you’re constantly prompted to “beautify” your slide using Nano Banana, Google Gemini’s image-generation … Continue reading Unpacking the accessibility trap of Google Slides’ “Beautify” feature
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot program “aims to connect U.S. researchers and educators to computational, data, and training resources needed to advance AI research and research that employs AI.” With the dramatic increase in recent years in … Continue reading NAIRR Pilot
