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Tomorrow afternoon – 1.00pm (New Zealand Daylight Time) – I’m presenting a webinar on collaborating with Chat GPT as a team member rather than simply as a tool. 18 months ago this wasn’t even on my radar as part of my Doctor of Professional Practice project developing a new collaborative learning model, but it’s becomingContinue reading “Webinar: Collaborating with ChatGPT on your team”

This year’s Scope – Work-based learning is now released by Otago Polytechnic Press, featuring contemporary research on the theory, lived experience, and reflection about work-based learning in an Aotearoa New Zealand context. https://thescopes.org/journal/work-based-learning/workbased-learning-5

I want to start off by saying that this has been written completely without the assistance of AI (ChatGPT or the like) – it’s based on my lived and observed experiences of collaborative project-based learning. I thought it important to say this because there’s so much worry and suspicion floating around at the moment aboutContinue reading “Judgement”

In my previous blog, I discussed the difference between Imposter Syndrome and Imposter Syndrome. I think it’s an important difference because while the Syndrome is relatively easy to detect in a person’s words and actions, the Sundrome is not as easy to deal with as “Take one of these pills three times a day forContinue reading “Imposter Sundrome – some thoughts on dealing with it”

I’m starting this blog assuming that you are familiar with the term “imposter syndrome” – that feeling of anxiety that comes from self-doubt (doubt that may not be shared by anybody else observing or experiencing your performance). It’s the feeling that you don’t really belong in the situation you are in, because many of theContinue reading “The critical difference between Imposter Syndrome and Imposter Sundrome”

Something experience has taught me – sometimes the hard way – is that the things that strike you as important when they happen, or the things you remember after the event, are valuable lessons there for the learning. Sometimes we act on them in a timely manner, sometimes we only think to act on themContinue reading “Passive, active, and collaborative reflection”

Following on from my previous two blogs on this subject I want to report on a conversation my wife and I had that got me thinking about the issue of writing in a different way. The implications of her question for collaborative project work are as important as anything I’ve been thinking about up toContinue reading “Flight, Fight…or Collaborate? The challenge of ChatGPT as a collaborative project team member (Part Three)”

Following on from my previous blog, I’ve been thinking about relationship issues where ChatGPT is a collaborator in a project rather than simply being a tool. To do this, I’m going to talk first about some common tools – those that serve us without thinking about what they are doing – and the relationship betweenContinue reading “Flight, Fight…or Collaborate? The challenge of ChatGPT as a collaborative project team member (Part Two)”

It’s sometimes said that you should never begin with an apology, but I will, because the last promised blog post hasn’t appeared yet. It will come – it’s just been sidelined a bit. In my defence – if I can have one – it’s down to the emergence of a little thing that looks likeContinue reading “Flight, Fight…or Collaborate? The challenge of ChatGPT as a collaborative project team member (Part One)”

Self-leadership. Airy-fairy? Warm fuzzies? New-age fad BS? Age-old wisdom? Perhaps the concept of self-leadership sits inside all of these categories (and many more). Where we locate it may depend on where we are viewing it from, and why we are thinking about it. It may also depend on whether we are thinking about it consciouslyContinue reading “Self-leadership and collaborative project team membership”