Michael Rowe

Tag: collaboration

5 items with this tag.

  • GitHub

    GitHub is a website that hosts git repositories online and adds the tools people need to work on them together, including issues for discussion, pull requests for proposing and reviewing changes, and automation that can publish a project as a website. It was built for software developers, but anything kept as text files can live there, including teaching materials and scholarship.

  • Wicked problems

    Problems that resist resolution because they have no definitive formulation, no stopping rule, and solutions that are good or bad rather than true or false.

  • Distributed version control

    Distributed version control tracks changes to files so that every contributor holds a complete copy of the project and its full history, with no central server to depend on. It allows offline work, parallel development, and recovery from any copy, and it lets partners who share a document, such as a practice assessment document, each keep the whole record of how it changed.

  • Open source software

    Software whose source code is published under a licence that lets anyone read, change, and redistribute it — and what that means for the tools an institution depends on.

  • Taste and judgement in human-AI systems

    Contemporary AI discourse often focuses on 'sanctuary strategies' — defensive attempts to identify uniquely human capabilities — positioning humans and AI as competitors for finite cognitive territory. This essay reframes human-AI relationships as embedded within complex cognitive ecologies where meaning emerges through interaction, and introduces 'taste' as a framework for cultivating contextual judgement: sophisticated discernment about when, how, and why to engage AI in service of meaningful purposes. Unlike technical literacy, taste development involves iterative experimentation and reflection, preserving human agency over value determination. By shifting from 'What can humans do that AI cannot?' to 'How might AI help us do more of what we value?', the essay builds a case for abundance-oriented human-AI partnership.