In EP 35, John and Jason kick off fall 2025 with a conversation on how AI has been added to Grammarly and Canvas (whether we like it or not) and if the future of online learning will be formed by Cyborg pedagogy (and what that means).
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Guest Bios:- John Nash, PhD, is an associate professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky.
- Jason Johnston, PhD, is the Executive Director of Online Learning and Course Production at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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EP 35 - Educators with or versus AI? Grammarly, Canvas AI, and Cyborg PedagogyJason: But I'm looking forward to the, great list of potential guests that we have. I don't want to say any names yet 'cause nobody said yes yet.
John: No.
Jason: We don't have any yeses yet,
John: Yeah. Everybody's just
Jason: on the calendar yet
John: our list is amazing,
Jason: Yeah, we've got a great list.
John: no one's, we haven't sent them invitations yet.
Jason: Yeah. Well, yeah, I guess there's that too. So we haven't gotten any nos. That's a good part
John: No. No.
Jason: Yeah.
John: No. Yes.
I'm John Nash here with Jason Johnston.
Jason: Hey, John. Hey everyone. And this is Online Learning in the second half, the Online Learning podcast.
John: Yeah. We're doing this podcast to let you in on a conversation we've been having for now our third season kicking off about online education. I know. And so, hey, newsflash, online learning is still trying to be great. Some of it is, a lot of it still isn't quite there,
Jason. We're gonna keep talking about how to get it to the next stage.
How are we gonna do that?
Jason: That is a great question. How about we talk about today, what we're thinking about this fall as we head into this new school year and new season?
John: Yeah, absolutely. It's been an interesting summer. Little things popping up here and there. I notice Grammarly's doing some interesting things. Looks like Canvas is doing some things. A lot of stuff on the horizon.
Jason: . Yeah. And I would love to get into those, but I wanted to just kind of on the front end as we're kind of restarting the season, just even talk a little bit about, just a overall standpoint just for a moment here to talk about why we are doing this podcast. What do you think, John? Why are we doing this podcast again?
John: I think we're doing this podcast for a couple of reasons. I'll throw out the very selfish reason why I'm doing this podcast. This is my professional development activity. This keeps me honest in terms of thinking about what I believe is important about teaching and learning online.
It also gives me a chance to hear what you're thinking and I value your opinion and your philosophies a lot. And I think it also lets us share some ideas with like-minded people who are really interested in trying to make online teaching and learning better.
Jason: Yeah. That's good. I've got a check mark beside all those. Always enjoy the conversation with you, John. This is a big part of wanting to do these. I always look forward to them and And we realized when we started adding guests to our podcast, although we really enjoy our conversations, but it just adds another element of another voice. And that's one thing I really value about bringing different guests with different viewpoints in. As we get started this year, I hope to bring in some different viewpoints, not just people that would just agree with everything that we have to say, but people that maybe would challenge us and challenge some of our approaches to online learning and integrating technology and trying to humanize online learning, all of those things. I would love to get into conversations with people who really push us to think more deeply and more concr
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