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Still learning. Occupational therapist and academic researching health professions education. Particularly interested in simulation-based education, student assessment, and work integrated learning / clinical placements (practice education).

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I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.
There have been a lot of excellent pieces on ChatGPT and education lately, and this is one of them: http://write.guyhoffman.com/why-i-dont-care-if-students-use-gpt
Why I Don't Care if Students Use GPT

They can go ahead, use it to cheat on their essay. It won't do them much good. An Experiment Here's a recent experience I've had with ...

Some Words To Not
An interesting introduction to the "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning", or #sotl . I closed my Biology research lab after 15 years to focus my research on how to teach #Biology to undegraduate students (I have the same professor position). This text explains the different paths that one can take to become a researcher on teaching and learning: "Classroom assistance: the scientists turning the tools of their trade to education" #DBER https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04509-3
Classroom assistance: the scientists turning the tools of their trade to education

A small but growing number of scientific faculty positions are focusing on the science of teaching.

If your assignments are asking students to review/improve ChatGPT essays, you are allowing OpenAI to define the default position that your students will be reasoning about.

This seems like a really bad idea. How do you expect students to come up with interesting/off-the-wall/counter-culture/nuanced ideas if they are being chained to a default position essay generated by a statistical machine that can only regurgitate ideas that are squarely in the middle?

Wrapping up the thought-provoking presentations to get us thinking about international #OccupationalTherapyEducation at #ICOTE2023 is the Elizabeth Casson Trust https://elizabethcasson.org.uk/ revisiting the theme of diversification and empowerment, not simply replicating Western approaches in environments everywhere, but enabling others to solve their own problems.
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Some interesting insights into the international #OccupationalTherapyEducation situation in the United states at #ICOTE2023. "Declining applications a combinaton of all PESTEL factors" says Nancy Krusen. Striking illustration of how the education of the workforce for high quality health care is at the mercy of many of the same societal factors that drive the need for more of that healthcare. Hmmm....
Next up in international #OccupationalTherapyEducation at #ICOTE2023 we hear from Hong Kong. Wing Ip has the excitement ramped up with virtual reality as an engaging medium for service users and students alike.
Now #ICOTE2023 moves consideration of international #OccupationalTherapyEducation to Kenya thanks to Tabitha Rangara
With my colleague Merrolee Penman, I've just shared some thoughts on the feedforward systems between health and social change, higher education change, and occupational therapy placements with the international #OccupationalTherapyEducation audience of #ICOTE2023