It's clear that many academics are weary of using generative AI in the form of chatbots to assist in their academic work, and for good reason.

This is a very new phenomenon and many people are quick to form judgments and opinions.

The fact of the matter is, this technology exists and we are beyond a point where the question is whether or not AI should be used. The more substantial and interesting question, in my opinion, is how AI can be used effectively. Other questions I have are about the nature of academic work in general and why there is a pressure to use AI to write abstracts or create written work.

My teaching philosophy represents the culmination of my lived experiences, my relationship to knowledge, and my journey through the realm of the unknown. As a lifelong learner who is more recently embarking in critical inquiry into my own identity as a teacher, I’ve noticed the dynamics of the learning process and how it is analogous to natural processes of the world. My role as a teacher is not necessarily to control a learner’s trajectory through the boundary of the known to the unknown. Rather, my role as a teacher is to introduce the initial seeds of knowledge that can grow in ways that I may not necessarily be able to predict.