1/15/25: More discussion

   The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

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Agenda and Minutes

1. AGFS issues: Approved by GC (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LSl4kHpBbsQuX42lySNqa7wgsbjShQJj/view). Not in the 
IT system yet. I submitted an IT support ticket.

2. We all got an email from someone wanting to collaborate. What will happen?

3. Making a paper out of VJB's dissertation.

• WMSCI has a first deadline Feb. 6. But there will probably be other later deadlines.
  
• RAG results with VJB and his student who is working on it? RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation - is a type of intelligent tutoring system. VJB has a senior capstone project student working on this in Spring semester. He might be able to attend some of these meetings and tell us what he is doing. There is programming involved in this project.
• Something new from V's dissertation? For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable.

4. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching. 
• TE is leaning toward this for a dissertation.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• 1/15/25: We finished 3.1 and can start on section 3.2 next time.
  

The meeting ended here. 

• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf

5. Reviewing discussion updates: MDPI said to reapply in 2026.

1/8/24: Welcome back to 2025!

  The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

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Agenda and Minutes

1. AGFS issues: what is VJB's status? Approved by GC (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LSl4kHpBbsQuX42lySNqa7wgsbjShQJj/view). Might or might not be in the IT system. DB will follow up on that question soon.

2. Making a paper out of VJB's dissertation. Planning.

• We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable.

3. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching. 
• TE is leaning toward this for a dissertation.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• We finished up to the subsection Engaging in An Interactive Dialogue Environment and can start with that next time.

• RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation - is a type of intelligent tutoring system. VJB has a senior capstone project student working on this in Spring semester. He might be able to attend some of these meetings and tell us what he is doing. There is programming involved in this project.
  

The meeting ended here. 

• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf

6. Reviewing discussion updates: MDPI said to reapply in 2026.

12/18/24: read more from Socratic questioning tutoring systems paper

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Agenda and Minutes

0. Our next meeting will be Jan. 8, 2025.

1. Reviewing discussion updates: MDPI said to reapply in 2026. DB turned down a review but it wasn't in VJB's area of expertise. We can still recommend him for specific papers that we cannot review.

2. AGFS issues: what is VJB's status? Currently at the GC or maybe beyond, can't tell until the Faculty Senate minutes for their Dec. 6 meeting become available (https://ualr.edu/facultysenate/) with a link to the GC minutes. They are still not posted yet but will probably have to be posted in time for the Jan. meeting. So, keep checking.

3. VJB noticed positions at Jonesboro, U. Ozarks, and a couple others in AR.

4. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching. 
• TE is leaning toward this for a dissertation.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• We finished section 2 (12/18/24).
• RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation - is a type of intelligent tutoring system. VJB has a senior capstone project student working on this next semester.

The meeting ended here.

• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf

3. We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable. V will plan to show us the graphs that would be useful in our next meeting.

12/11/24: Reading, etc.

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Reviewing discussion updates?

2. AGFS issues: what is VJB's status? Currently at the GC or maybe beyond, can't tell until the Faculty Senate minutes for their Dec. 6 meeting become available (https://ualr.edu/facultysenate/) with a link to the GC minutes. They are not posted yet.

2. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• VJB stepped us through some material from a workshop he is taking on using AI in education.
  

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching. 
• TE is leaning toward this for a dissertation.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation - is a type of intelligent tutoring system. VJB has a senior capstone project student working on this next semester.
  
• We finished section 1 (12/11/24).

The meeting ended here.

• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf

3. We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable. V will plan to show us the graphs that would be useful in our next meeting.

12/4/24: AI in education workshop discussion

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Reviewing discussion updates?

2. AGFS issues: what is VJB's status? Currently at the GC or maybe beyond, can't tell until the Faculty Senate minutes for their Dec. 6 meeting become available with a link to the GC minutes.

2. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• VJB stepped us through some material from a workshop he is taking on using AI in education.
  

The meeting ended here.

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• We read the abstract of this on 11/20/24.
  
• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf

3. We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable. V will plan to show us the graphs that would be useful in our next meeting.

11/20/24: Discuss reviewing and started reading an article

  The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

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Agenda and Minutes

0. We will not meet next week, the day before Thanksgiving day. So we will meet the following week on W Dec. 4.

1. Any updates to the reviewing discussion?

2. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• We read the abstract of this on 11/20/24.
  
• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf

3. We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable. V will plan to show us the graphs that would be useful in our next meeting.

11/13/24: Reviewing, etc.

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Agenda and Minutes

1. VJB is looking into increasing reviewer activities. MDPI is one company that is looking for reviewers, so he is checking into that.

The meeting ended here.

2. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching.
  
• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919
  

3. We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable. V will plan to show us the graphs that would be useful in our next meeting.