October 4, 2024AI and the Increased Value of Expertiseby Amanda SturgillThis post was written with ideation assistance from Google Gemini 1.5 Pro, using the following prompt: “Please act as a writing consultant. A client has come in and wants to write a 500-word blog post about the effect that AI…
September 19, 2024Book Review: Teaching with AIby Amanda SturgillBowen, José Antonio, and C. Edward Watson. 2024. Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. Bowen and Watson’s work has the mixed blessing of being a first attempt to…
August 27, 2024Podcast Episodes with Interesting Ideas about AI and Educationby Amanda SturgillOne of my favorite ways to double time on professional development is to listen to podcasts while I commute to work. There are quite a few podcasts in the education space at all levels, from kindergarten through graduate school. I’ve…
August 20, 2024Using Generative AI to Support Global Learning Could Leave Cultural Lessons Lost in Translationby Amanda SturgillI feel a little silly, but also proud to say that I was able to, at least minimally, keep my language learning streak alive while I took a vacation to Europe last month. Since the throes of COVID, I’ve been…
July 5, 2024AI and Academic Integrityby Amanda SturgillSome of the early conversation about generative AI in education was its affordances for cheating. There were scores of social media posts. Institutions held discussions about how much, if any, to invest in AI detection software. And several thinkpieces opined about the…
June 20, 2024AI, Higher Ed and the Hype Cycleby Amanda SturgillIs AI going to make our lives worse? An interesting study came out recently from Elon’s Imagining the Digital Future Center (Rainie and Husser 2024) that sort of asked that question, in relation to deep fakes (United States Government Accountability Office 2020) and politics…
March 11, 2024Crossing Borders at Homeby Jessie L. Moore and Nolan SchultheisMaking College “Worth It” – Season 1, Episode 10 In this episode, we visit with Amanda Sturgill, Associate Professor of Journalism at Elon University, who co-edited Mind the Gap: Global Learning at Home and Abroad. She shares strategies for facilitating global…
August 2, 2016Understanding global learning: Definitions matterby Amanda Sturgill We have wrapped up the second summer meeting of the Center’s research seminar on Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience: Higher-Impact Study Abroad and Off-Campus Domestic Study. Five teams are making progress towards answering questions about the relationship…
June 21, 2016Issues in male student choices for global and domestic off-campus experiencesby Amanda Sturgill As I am teaching in Costa Rica this term, one thing I notice in the classrooms at the partner university is how much the women outnumber the men. This imbalance exemplifies a national trend. An Institute of…
June 14, 2016Working at the intersection of Global Learning and Service-Learningby Amanda Sturgill Hi from Central America, where I am teaching a group of students from my university, who are learning here for 4 months. They take an intensive language course, then a mix of regular courses at a partner…
