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episode 5: Episode #5: Professor Jason Gulya PhD, Berkeley College
Jason Gulya is Professor of English at Berkeley College, located in New Jersey and New York. Jason incorporates AI into all of his courses, and at the moment is working on how to reimagine what, how, and why he teaches "writing." He believes that universities can be outrageously innovative spaces for higher-level critical thinking and creativity, but that we need to push them to become those spaces.
In this fascinating one hour conversation we touch on how he is using AI in his teaching and research work, the death of the five paragraph essay, how AI is already changing the notion and nature of research, the increasing importance of process over end product, and his frustration at the slow rate of of innovation in the US college system.
We hypothesise on how this system will need to change in the coming years in order to remain relevant as AI and other immersive technologies further find their way into students' lives.
Jason is an inspiring and entertaining speaker, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening conversation.