Katherine Parrish

  • designing with AI be like…

    For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on my “brand.” ChatGPT4 has been extremely helpful with helping me develop and refine my brand voice, mission statement, and anything conceptual or texty. The design GPTs sometimes struggle with “understanding” (I’m using the term very loosely) what I want, and often persist in resisting my…

  • “creative writing” for the win!

    This week, my Gr. 10 students were more engaged, more personally interested in, and committed to an assignment than they have been since the beginning of term. It’s based on an exercise I have called “Clock Connotations,” where I give students a paragraph that contains three neutral (as far as possible) statements about the clock…

  • I think designers’ jobs are still safe

    I’ve been trying to both generate a logo and come up with a slogan/ title for a Teachers Pay Teachers store. Today, “innovAIte to educate” seemed like it hit the mark, if we could get the graphic of the slogan right, or even remotely accurate. Here’s what happened:

  • the Eliza effect

    I’ve had my hands full this week with teaching, and life stuff, (and dog stuff), and I was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. While scanning the various GPTs (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) (“transformers! robots in disguise!), listed in ChatGPT’s interface, I saw that there was a therapy GPT. I figured, “why not” and sought some…

  • mindstorms part a

    I used “mindstorms” in the title of my previous blog entry in which I described my first full-on use of Gen AI in the classroom because there was something about the power and the pleasure of the immediacy of input to result that got me thinking about Seymour Papert. When I was studying Computer Applications…