[Mary Kate Terrell]

okay, i just sent him a connection request. The more collaboration the better, so thanks for the networking. I look forward to all the ideas I can get from you all. AI scares me, thrills me, gives me great pause and all of the above. I have some colleagues who shun it altogether because “it will take our jobs soon., if we aren’t careful.” The way I see it is if we embrace it, we’ll keep our jobs, if we build the great wall of China around ourselves to try and keep it away from what we do, we’ll be the ones who need to go when/if it does take over some of the basic things we do. I teach at a community college where intro level classes are the only courses gen ed folks can provide. To get higher level stuff, they have to go to the university. When I see the AI assistant that facilitated the mini courses I took in the learning lab section of Commons, I can see what the fright is all about.