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Etai Mizrav, Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree
November 17, 2023, 9:30am, 2136 G St NW Conference Room, Foggy Bottom Campus, Washington, DC 20052
Please notify the candidate if you plan to attend.
Dissertation: Segregate, Discriminate, Signal: Proposed Framework and Model for Understanding Policy Drivers of Educational Inequality
Field of Study: PhD in Education (Education Policy Concentration)
Dissertation Research Chair: Dr. Joshua L. Glazer
“What’s It Like to be a Large-Language Model”? Philosophical Approaches to A.I.” Philosophy professors Eric Saidel and Tad Zawidzki will lead a discussion centered on the attached essay, “’What Is It Like to Be a Bot?’: The World According to GPT-4,” by Dan Lloyd. Wednesday, Nov. 29 11:30-1 — Phillips 328-9 Lunch will be served to those who register! REGISTER HERE!
On October 27, Dr. Ryan Watkins, will present a session called, "From Blank Pages to AI-Infused Brilliance: Crafting Future-Ready Writers," at Bedford's WPA/Writing Director Workshop. The workshop will feature a series of sessions for participants to learn about strategies for teaching writing in an environment where AI is readily available.
GSEHD PhD candidate Karly Ball (Education and Inequality CRT) presented, "Students with Chronic Illnesses Navigating the College Transition: A Thematic Analysis," at the DCDT 2023 International Conference.
Dr. Brian Casemore gave a keynote address at the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (JCT) Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice – colloquially known as the JCT/Bergamo Conference (Dayton, Ohio, October 12-14). In his keynote talk, “On the Raveling of Deep Aspect: Curriculum as Subjective Place,” Dr. Casemore conceptualized curriculum as a process of encoding “psychical locality” in its social implication, analyzed the emplacement of the hegemonic white male subject in conditions of social violence, and characterized ethical movement beyond such subjective enclosure.
Dr. Arshad I. Ali received a GW Humanities Facilitating Fund Award to support his research on a chapter of a manuscript titled, "The Columbian Haunting: The Spanish Inquisition, the Muslim, and Indigenous Life in North America."
Drs. Ryan Watkins, Natalie Milman, and Michael Corry published a chapter which they co-authored titled, "Lifelong learning as a learning and instructional design technology professional," in the book Becoming a learning and instructional design technology (LIDT) professional.