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June 15, 2023 Community Gabfest: ChatGPT – Delightful or scary?
Community Gabfests are Zoom gatherings for literacy educators who want to connect with their peers in an informal setting. Connecting with other educators helps us see our work with fresh eyes, validates our experiences and is a powerful way to renew our energy, purpose, and excitement about our work. Join us as we chat, vent, brainstorm, etc., about this work that we love.
The next Gabfest is on June 15, 2023 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The conversation starter is “What about ChatGPT? What delights us and what scares us?”
This topic came from our discussion at Gabfest 8. We wanted a place to talk about what we are finding delightful about ChatGPT and “some of these things that scare the living daylights out of us. I mean, if we can’t have each other to talk about this, then we are alone in our fear and that’s not a good place to be.”
Tracey and Guylaine are your hosts.
Contact tracey@alphaplus.ca or guylaine@alphaplus.ca if you would like more information.
Future Gabfests – save the dates:
- We might take a break in July and August and reconvene in September – unless we decide we need to talk about something sooner – check back soon.
Past Gabfests – see what happened:
- September 27, 2022 : Learner Agency
- October 27, 2022 : Warm ups and Motivation
- November 24, 2022 : Learner Identity
- January 12, 2023: Blended Learning Aspirations
- February 9, 2023: The Best Program
- March 9, 2023: The Personal Web
- April 13, 2023: Digital Justice
- May 11, 2023: Resources we love
- the Complete Gabfest Collection
Thanks for a wonderful year as we piloted this new program: Real talk as Community Gabfest pilot continues
Here is what participants say happens at a Community Gabfest:
- Lots of opportunity for discussion.
- Others sharing their best practices
- Learning about what other programs are doing to increase learner engagement.
- To know that others experience the same challenges that we do. Sharing ways to enhance our programming; sharing ideas to help solve problems
- Meeting new people from the literacy field and learning about their ideas.
- Going into different breakout rooms and meeting different practitioners.
- Connecting with others in small groups
And here are some of the ways participants describe the Community Gabfests:
- The Community Gabfest gives everyone an opportunity to share, to learn and to discuss. We are guided by seasoned adult literacy professionals.
- It is great to meet, share, discuss ideas, and best practices.
- An avenue to share techniques and strategies that are working in our programs. A forum to learn together about best practices, challenges, and possibilities.
- It was a place where people could share their ideas, issues and challenges and share solutions too if needed. You also got the chance to meet people that were outside of your immediate region and you had the opportunity to expand your network in the space. There are also of really great people and agencies out there doing really great work for the community. It was nice to see just beyond your own agency or region.
- It was nice to learn about different experiences from literacy practitioners. The environment was safe and cordial to talk about your experiences with learners.
- We got to meet different literacy practitioners on Zoom and talk about what we do, resources, and learn from each other. It was a really relaxed environment and we wouldn’t normally get to do this in-person. This was a great alternative.
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