Archives - 2023
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New media lab gets students over the humps of working with the latest A.I., virtual reality and more
The metaverse. Augmented reality. Artificial intelligence. The rapidly-changing world of communication can be either feared or embraced. UW-La Crosse students will be doing the latter in a new eight-room media lab suite called the Communication and Media Lab (or the CaML for short). The CaML provides UWL College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities students and faculty a […]
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Why I’m Excited About ChatGPT
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November, many faculty members in higher education have been worried about how use of the artificial intelligence text generator will harm student learning. Headlines about “the end of high-school English,” “the educational crisis” and, of course, “ChatGPT and cheating” have predominated. But from my perspective as a first-year writing […]