Aeron MacHattie
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Sessions in which Aeron MacHattie participates
Wednesday 12 February, 2025
How are students using GenAI tools in their academic work? For the last two years, Concordia Library has been offering workshops on the critical use of GenAI tools. These workshops made space for students to share their thoughts and experiences related to using these tools. In this session, two librarians will share their observation and insights from facilitating these conversations with students about GenAI tools. They will also discuss how this student feedback can inform ongoing AI litera...
Sessions in which Aeron MacHattie attends
Tuesday 11 February, 2025
eConcordia's Chief Academic Officer, Anik de St-Hilaire; Concordia's University Librarian, Amy Buckland; and Associate Professor in Concordia's Department of Communication Studies, Fenwick McKelvey. Join us to learn more about the Digital Skill-Share Days event, how you can benefit from this collaborative learning environment, and what this exchange of ideas can bring to your daily w...
Wednesday 12 February, 2025
While generative AI offers significant opportunities for learning, many Gen-AI applications tend to overpromise, particularly in the context of math and problem-solving courses. Some platforms provide inaccurate solutions, others offer correct answers without enough explanations, and some deliver responses that are not aligned with the student's level of understanding. The Math Learning Specialist and Peer Tutors at Concordia explored the development of a Gen-AI prototype that ai...
Join us to discover how scenario-based learning can transform your approach to teaching digital skills and enhance digital fluency for your students or team.This presentation is designed to equip employees with the foundational knowledge and confidence needed to effectively teach and learn digital skills. The session introduces a scenario-based strategy that simplifies complex concepts and provides practical, hands-on experience with digital tools. By demonstrating the strategy in acti...
Discover how to supercharge your daily work using Cursor and Obsidian. While Cursor is primarily used as a programming tool, this workshop will show you how its powerful AI features can benefit everyone's daily work, whether you write code or not. The session will provide practical demonstrations and real-world examples to help you get started with these tools.
In this session, we will use an open-source software that allows you to download and run large language models locally on standard computers. The software has a graphical interface to interact with the models without any coding, making this accessible to everyone in our community.We will learn to privately engage with open-source foundational models, such as Llama and Phi-3, and use them to interact with our own documents without sending any information to a cloud service. As we do the...
In this session, doctoral candidates (and Concordia Public Scholars) Rana Ali Adeeb and Azfar Adib combine their expertise to explore the multifaceted challenges of deepfakes. Rana will delve into the drivers behind fake news dissemination, while Azfar will discuss innovative technologies to combat deepfake-related issues. Participants will gain insights into the psychological aspects of misinformation spread and learn about cutting-edge technologies for user authentication and content verifi...
