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The Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Podcast

The Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Podcast

by Dr. Gary Ackerman

Education Technology

Season 2

Using PDF Protect in Moodle

A quick how-to for disabling editing, copying, and printing of PDF files in Moodle.

MIT Article Part 6: Reflections

The third part of the long episode in which we reflect on the importance of the article to our work at GCC.

MIT Article Part 5: Answers to Research Question #4

The third part of the long episode in which we answer research question #4

MIT Article Part 4: Answers to Research Question #3

The third part of the long episode in which we answer research question #3.

MIT Article Part 3: Answers to Research Question #2

The third part of the long episode in which we answer research question #2.

MIT Article Part 2: Answers Research Question #1

Part 2 of the long episode in which we answer the first research question.

MIT Article: Part 1

Our 27-minute episode broken into smaller segments. this is the first section.

The MIT Article: Summary & Refections

In June 2025, a pre-print article was released by a group of scholars working at MIT (and other universities). The article investigated the effects of LLM (ChatPGT) and search engines on adults' abilities to write essays. The article has been the focus of much chatter social media and other sites of interest to educators. In this episode, Catherine Gees, Gary Ackerman, and Jeff Gabraith describe and analyze the article.

John Dewey and AI

The script of this podcast was generated from a blog post about John Dewey and reflections on his philosophies in an age of AI.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: What Is It?

In this episode, which was generated by AI, is based on a blog post about Retrieval-Augmented Generation which is one way we generate text (and other media) in AI systems.

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