technology
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A critique of a recent research paper wherein the authors argue that AI generated content is more environmentally friendly than human writing or art When I began teaching organic chemistry, I watched whatever open course lectures I could find for guidance and inspiration. The lecture series that had the most profound effect on my approach
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I’ve had a project idea on the back burner for some time for an in-class module centered around a Socratic dialogue. The idea is that a student volunteer would interact with me as I delivered the lesson (I had the mechanism of second order nucleophilic substitution in mind). I want to turn a passive lecture
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Life isn’t fair, is it? No one consulted us teachers and educators before launching these large language models that would effectively break many parts of education as we know it. And now it’s our responsibility to fix things, to rebuild and rethink, because no one else could do a good job of it. So, where
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I don’t like generative artificial intelligence as it currently exists. Part of this is just a personal reaction. As an amateur artist, I felt my stomach drop when I saw a midjourney generated image win an art contest and the person behind it responded to the backlash by saying something like get over it, art
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I decided to call this blog The Model Kit because the way that I have come to approach teaching organic chemistry is to begin with these simple physical molecular models and to teach the subject in a similar way as an artist learns to draw by observing an object. Learning organic chemistry is often compared
The Model Kit 