> [!important]+ 07/2025: IN DEVELOPMENT > Please note that I'm actively building this site. I have launched it while in development so that folks who have my CV can learn about me and see examples of selected work. # Incorporating generative AI (genAI) Starting January 2023, genAI became something that I focused much effort towards learning about and creating programming. From 2023-2024 I incorporated it into my work, I gave presentations about it, and I designed and delivered multiple workshops on it. I continue to be an advocate for **using it to evolve what we do**. While I was at The George Washington University (GWU) as Director of Strategic Digital Learning Initiatives, I was tasked to create the strategy and lead the response to genAI for the central library. I like everyone else was amazed in November 2022 when [ChatGPT was introduced](https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/). I was immediately excited and enthusiastic to be on the leading edge of that change at a major university. My work led to some fantastic partnerships with faculty, staff, and students. And specifically with my GWU team, I worked closely with them to identify tools and approaches we could use to enhance our workflows and deliverables with genAI. As I look into the future, genAI is something that I continue to have much interest in pursuing. I am curious how it may help to improve learning outcomes, work performance, and overall operational effectiveness. My 'go-to' tools are [OpenAI ChatGPT](https://openai.com/chatgpt/overview/) (paid models) and [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai). Additionally, I have used [AI in Adobe Photoshop](https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ai.html), [Adobe Firefly](https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly.html), and [Microsoft Designer](https://designer.microsoft.com) to support creative work. ## Where I stand with genAI **I am a generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) optimist**. I am optimistic in how it <u>may help</u> to accelerate human learning. I do not see genAI or approach it as a replacement or crutch. Instead **I see genAI as a <u>partner</u> in my work and learning activities**. The best practices for using genAI are continuously evolving. I think this will go on for a number of years as the technology evolves itself. But some of the ways I have and am using genAI are as follows: 1. Replacing traditional search. 2. Create headers in a document and outlines for presentations. 3. Generating images for presentations. 4. Explore domain knowledge that is outside my expertise. 5. Identify parts of circuit boards to lesson planning. 6. Generate discussion questions for SME's, discussion groups, and learning environments. 7. Discuss human psychology such as decision-making actions and behaviors. 8. Discover themes and keywords in qualitative survey data. 9. Discuss steps for potential project management workflows. 10. Generate and iterate on interview questions given a set of objectives and competencies. 11. Verbally ideate to answer to gather ideas to ambiguous problems. 12. Work through processes of course and multimedia design. 13. Suggest text blocks for HTML and CSS. 14. Tutor me on technical skill development. 15. Help me to find names of models I only have an image of. 16. Explore and interlink domain knowledge (e.g. types of learning) ==In all of these **my approach is to work with genAI**. I am looking for a response, but **I am not looking for the answer**. I do not trust the models 100% and I prefer to interact with people and their experiences.== To me genAI represents a change similar to the Internet in the 1990's. It is the future of information access, sharing, solutions generation, and partnership. As an educator, I think about how we can more effectively research, learn, and create pathways for how to responsibly partner with genAI. It may be the personalized learning tool we have been waiting for. But whatever field, **teaching and learning digital and AI literacies is key to the future of learning, work, and our collective security**. ### We should coach not catch My opinion is that we <u>should not</u> reject the use of genAI. We should build organizational structures to find solutions with it, build communities around it, teach it, integrate it, and integrate ethical frameworks for working with it into the minds of users. Rejection and attempting to 'catch' learners is backwards-looking. We will not progress by holding onto the past work models. We need to re-imagine what we do. But be careful. I know some do not agree with this opinion. But I also know others do. As I look forward, I want to continue to adapt to the change. And I am terribly **curious about leading and supporting evolution in teaching, training, learning, and development with a human-AI partnership**. ## Use of genAI on this website **Everything written on this website is and will be from my own mind — using my fingers or voice**. There will be things that I turn to genAI for thoughts and potential proof-reading. But all ideas are and will be expressed by me. (Even the errors that I am bound to make.) You might ask, "*Why, given your enthusiasm of genAI?!*" The answers are quite simple: 1. I speak for myself; 2. It is the ethical thing to do; and 3. genAI is my partner, not my replacement. In places and pages that I use genAI, I will do 2 things. One, I will use the tag #genAI to highlight that it has been used. And two, I will use a callout box, such as below, to explain my use. > [!info]+ Generative AI use > Here I will include an explanation of how I used a genAI tool. I'll tell you why I used it, what kinds of results I received, and how and/or why I incorporated its feedback.