Thursday
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | Breakfast, warm-up (what sorts of “products” do your students need to know how to produce?) |
| 9:15 | Presentation: mapping basics |
| 9:45 | Activity: reading StoryMaps and discussing connections to disciplines |
| 10:15 | Presentation: communication. Demo: StoryMaps. |
| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:00 | Presentation: the machinery of the web. Demo: GitHub Pages. |
| 11:30 | Activity: curriculum/syllabus review. Where do students see these skills? Are they necessary? |
| noon | Lunch |
| 12:45 | Activity: create a communication using StoryMaps or GitHub Pages. |
| 1:15 | Share out and discussion |
| 1:30 | Presentation: ethics of LLMs. Example tool: ChatGPT . |
| 2:00 | Break |
| 2:15 | Activity: playing with ChatGPT and existing assignments |
| 2:45 | Discussion: how LMMs could be used as learning tools. Discuss syllabus statements. |
Resources
Maps
- All maps of parameter estimates are misleading, Gelman and Price
- Surprise Maps: Showing the Unexpected, UW Interactive Data Lab
- How Spatial Polygons Shape Our World (issues of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem), Amelia McNamara. 30-minute version, 60-minute version.
- Is Africa bigger than North America? Zan Armstrong.
Communication
- PPDAC -The Data Problem Solving Cycle. Data Education at Schools
- Markdown complete reference, John Gruber
AI
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, Shmitchell.
- Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content, Simon Wilson
- Against automated plagiarism, Iris van Rooij
- The environmental impact of the AI revolution is starting to come into focus, Justine Calma
- Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone, Melissa Heikkilä