Blog 9

     I have enjoyed my experience in EME 2040. It has allowed me many opportunities to integrate technology into my skillset, and equipped me with tools I can use if I choose to become a teacher. I am glad that most of the work can be done during class, because it allows students who may have trouble remembering to do assignments at home more opportunities to succeed in the course. Overall, I think this model should be adopted by more teachers, and there is little I would do to improve it.

    Open Education Resources (OER) are information and learning resources you can access for free. One example of this is the internet archive. This website has many different resources you can view or even download, like books, photos, movies, etc. You can even check out books through their library system with an account. Since I am a history major, the internet archive make it easy and affordable to find various historical references and sources for my research. 

    Assignment 4 gave me an opportunity to become further acquainted with the PowerPoint program. While I have been using PowerPoint since 5th grade, the are some aspects of this assignment that forced me to do things I've never done before, like make word art, or narrate the PowerPoint. This has developed my understanding, and made me more equipped to use PowerPoint in the future. However, I do feel like 10 slides was a lot, and the prompt was somewhat unclear on the topic.

Blog 8

       The website creation assignment helped me learn how to use a programs interface to create websites. While doing this, I considered colors, as well as font choices and images. I specifically tried to use only three colors, those being red, black, and white. This combination of colors is one of my favorites. I liked that this assignments allowed me to be creative in considering ways to help students through website design, and I will certainly use what I've learned when designing a class website in the future.

       https://mjh01122004project.weebly.com/ 

       I tend to never use ai tools because I think that they are too unreliable. They can at times provide inaccurate information, and so I try to keep away from them as much as possible. It seems a bit old fashioned of me, but I have a rather negative view of ai, not simply just because it's unreliable, but also because of moral implications. AI currently is the worst it will ever be, and as it improves, has the potential to replace seemingly ever job in the United States, possibly even the world. It could easily take every working class job and leave people destitute. I am all for technological progress, but the way AI threatens individuals autonomy and control over their own labor frightens me. 

     I find that AI tend to be pretty by the books. A consequence of making a machine that uses logic to predict the best outcome is that its own actions become predictable. Unless I know little about a subject, I can generally predict what a chatbot is going to say, as well as the language it tends to use. My view tends to not change on this matter, and I assume that AI would agree with me.

     I do think that AI tools can be productive if used properly. However, only with human oversight. Humans must watch over AI to check for mistakes and poor interpretation. This is how AI reaches its full potential, however as mentioned earlier, I am apprehensive to employ AI in everyday use.