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By Kyla James May 21, 2023 - 11:39am Comments (1)I have recently enrolled in the Master of Nursing graduate program at Athabasca University, and this is the first time learning and completing coursework exclusively online. One of the reasons for enrolling at AU was because of this, and like...3 Tips for staying on track with 2 courses
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By Jon Dron March 16, 2023 - 1:27pmDave Cormier is a wonderfully sideways-thinking writer, such as in this recent discussion of the myth of learning styles. Dave's post is not mainly about learning style theories, as such, but the nature and value of myth. As he puts it, myth is "a...Athabasca University's major unions condemn the sacking of Peter Scott. Meanwhile....
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By Jon Dron February 2, 2023 - 5:02pmYou may have heard that the president of Athabasca University, Peter Scott, was replaced yesterday with Alex Clark, erstwhile Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at AU. This was a complete surprise - no, utter shock - to everyone at AU, from...DECOLONIZE OR INDIGENIZE?
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By Jon Dron January 12, 2023 - 5:22pmI asked ChatGPT to write me a story about a robot teaching children to be human. This is what it came up with...Once upon a time, in a far-off land, there lived a robot named Zephyr. Zephyr was unlike any other robot, as it had been programmed...AWS Educate - things have changed a bit since I last visited
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- Kyla James published a blog post Adapting to online learningComments
- Adele Tremblay published a blog post 3 Tips for staying on track with 2 coursesComments
Hello Adele,
Thank you so much for this excellent post. These are wonderful tips that will prove very beneficial to anyone who reads and adopts them. I'll be adopting some of them myself as I have definitely felt as though I am facing a mountain this past year when trying to juggle study and work!
Your post has also reminded me that I promised to create a cheat sheet for students regarding deadlines for the course. I'll do that later today!
With all best wishes,
Emily
Emily Cargan May 28, 2023 - 8:31am
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Critique of ChatGPT DIKW output
Concerning DIKW and the data from example (3.1) [1]. Without human processing, the statements can be considered a set of singly-linked lists of symbols, therefore, the data [3][4].
The data produces the following information after an initial conversion [3][4]. Further processing of the logical statements is possible.
- 17-year-old ^ greater than 180 -> obese
- 17-year-old ^ greater than 180 -> risk of heart disease
- Tom -> 17-year-old ^ greater than 180
- Tom -> worries about weight
- Tom -> decreased appetite
- Tom -> know about obesity
- Tom -> know about weight loss training
- Enrol in weight loss training -> know about weight loss training
- Enrol in weight loss training -> NOT obese
- Tom -> wants to go to the hospital
The information establishes that Tom is obese, has a risk of heart disease, worries about weight, has a decreased appetite, knows about obesity, knows about weight loss training, and wants to go to the hospital. The information row from the ChatGPT [2] establishes the information.
Does ChatGPT provide knowledge from the information?
The knowledge row [2] provides information in the following statements:
“Obesity increases the risk of heart disease”
“The weight loss training class is not suitable for Tom as he is considered obese”
These statements can be derived from processing the initial information and are not knowledge [6][7]. The columns do provide actionable knowledge.
ChatGPT did provide some words of wisdom, "knowing the right things to do” [7] by providing the statements “Maintaining a healthy weight is important for reducing the risk of heart disease” and “Making informed choices about weight management can improve health outcomes” [2].
References:
[1] Li, Y., & Duan, Y. (2023). The Wisdom of Artificial General Intelligence: Experiments with GPT-4 for DIKWP. arXiv preprint.
[2] ChatGPT, personal communication, May 4, 2023
[3] Ackoff, R. L., "From Data to Wisdom", Journal of Applies Systems Analysis, Volume 16, 1989 p 3-9
[4] http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW
Eugene Griffin May 6, 2023 - 10:19am
I love this! Excellent use of the technology and wonderful philosophical questions, Eugene.
Jon Dron May 15, 2023 - 5:16pm
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Hello Medison,
Thanks for sharing this resource! Ethics is an important part of counselling. It ensures we protect the public and ourselves during service delivery. The resource you shared is for Canadian Certified Counsellors. I think it is a handy document to have if we are working as Canadian Certified Counsellors. In addition, different regulatory bodies usually provide their own ethical guidelines to their members, I would recommend professionals follow the recommendations and requirements of their own regulatory body to ensure they are ethically competent.
Chaohui
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Hi Kyla,
Thank you for this excellent blog post! It can definitely feel intimidating to post on online discussion forums but no one on this course is judging other people's post; instead, I think everyone is grateful to have others to talk to about their own anxieties about taking further education and juggling this with all of their other responsibilities.
As shown by this post, you have important things to say and a lovely way of expressing yourself, so just post when you can and know you will have delighted and engaged readers!
It can take a while to get oriented to online learning platforms. I still struggle finding my way around the AU MAIS 606 site! Just know you're not alone in this. Check under Communications > News and Announcements every week for my notifications as I try to provide a summary of each week's work there.
All the very best for now!
Emily
Emily Cargan May 28, 2023 - 9:01am