by Michael Hernandez | Oct 15, 2025 | Generative AI, Pedagogy
“Empirical evidence supplied by several researchers indicates that a decision to adopt or reject a new idea is often not the terminal stage in the innovation-decision process. …At the confirmation stage the individual (or other decision-making unit) seeks...
by Michael Hernandez | Sep 5, 2025 | Generative AI, Pedagogy
“…AI mirrors amplify and normalize our biases, reinforce our most polarizing opinions and most aggressive stances, and boost the visibility of our most uninformed “hot takes:’ In doing so they reflect back to us images of human civic agency so...
by Michael Hernandez | Aug 1, 2025 | Generative AI, Instructional design, Pedagogy, Uncategorized
“A computing system that permits the asking of only certain kinds of questions, that accepts only certain kinds of ‘data,’ and that cannot even in principle be understood by those who rely on it, such a computing system has effectively closed many...
by Michael Hernandez | Jul 23, 2025 | Instructional design, Pedagogy
Faculty Interviewer: “How attractive, as a student, is it if all of these readings you get in a class you could, yourself, just put them into a podcast and listen to a five or ten minute podcast rather than reading the papers?” Undergraduate Student: “Oh, it’s very...
by Michael Hernandez | Jul 7, 2025 | Pedagogy
“If we are going to responsibly and responsively change the course of the Intelligence Revolution, which ethical system or systems are best suited to understanding or evaluating its dynamics…in environments shaped by systems of domination not through coercion but...