Pedagogy and Practice
An Exploratory Case Study of the Implications of Chat GPT as a Tool in the Classroom View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Anastasia Tracy Biggs, Dana Betts
This exploratory case study examines the implications of Chat GPT used as a tool in the classroom. This is an empirical study of how effectively Chat GPT can be utilized as an innovative educational tool in the classroom. This is studied from the online and traditional classroom approaches. At this time, Chat GPT demonstrates it can be utilized as a tool to assist students in researching and working through complex topics in computer science and engineering in both traditional and online classrooms. The students utilize Chat GPT through researching topics and assignments from these classes to improve their understanding of the material. The online and traditional classroom data were compared and contrasted to determine the effectiveness of Chat GPT and educational techniques in the classroom by incorporating evidence from tests, assignments, and in-class gamification contests. This study demonstrates that students learn and retain more material on computer science topics when utilizing Chat GPT as an educational tool in the classroom. It argues for the use of Chat GPT as a means to increase understanding of complex and advanced topics.
Thinking Curatorial Methodology: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Curatorial Practice View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Carolyn Jervis, Robin Willey
Curatorial studies in the sphere of contemporary art is a relatively recent development in the academy, with the first curatorial schools stemming from the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study program in the late 1960s. Two decades later L’école du Magasin opened at the Centre National d’Art Contemporain in France in 1987, and was followed by numerous programs emerging in the mid-1990s. In Canada, it was not until 2001 that a graduate program in curatorial studies was started at the University of British Columbia. As a result, only in recent years have scholars actively begun to interrogate and theorize what it is that curating in the field of contemporary art does. There is even less work that is specifically about curatorial methods. In this paper, we will explore the intersection of curatorial methodology in contemporary art and sociological ethnography through an exhibition developed collaboratively between us—a curator and a sociologist—entitled Articles of Faith. We discuss how a three-year, multi-sited ethnography that investigated the burgeoning relationship between visual art and religious innovation in Canadian Christian communities led to an exhibition of contemporary art exploring Christian hegemony, and what that process made clear about discursive gaps in how curation is understood as a method.
