Diversity without cacophony Group discussions on controversial subjects can open students to more viewpoints, but they can also result in the usual …

What’s the connection among happiness, women’s empowerment, and sustainable living? This week a UMaine course in permaculture hosted a lively discussion on …

“AI made me basic”

When a tech reporter for the NY Times outsourced her decisions for a week to ChatGPT, she complained that “AI made me …

A new tool hopes to drive more students to the polls, and it uses AI under the hood to help.

AI advocates have expressed frustration at Ted Chiang’s critique of AI in The New Yorker, where he argued that large language models …

Deep-faked images and other media may get all the headlines when it comes to endangering democracy, but the 2024 Maine Town Meeting …

We should be genuinely worried about the hubris of the captains of AI.

Join UMaine Digital Curation for a conversation with Christiane Paul, a trailblazer in the field who will review how practices of creating, …

Text generators like ChatGPT have dominated my conversations with educators about AI in the past year. Despite their emergence a year before …

This fall an unusual four-month experiment pitted generative AI against conventional digital tools in eight separate creative tasks. Fifty students wrote, coded, …

Entangled Ecologies, an NEH funded project, led by UMaine's Joline Blais and Dartmouth colleague John Bell, creates an (AR) App that reveals the entwined histories and ecological systems of the Shaker Forest in Enfield, NH..

By Jon Ippolito   Worried that generative AI might have killed the student essay? An “AI sandwich” may resurrect learning through writing …

As part of the Learning With AI initiative, Still Water researchers continue to examine the role of generative AI in reshaping contemporary …

Still Water senior researcher and New Media alumnus John Bell continues to uncover insights by marrying old and new media. This summer …

Wild Blueberry Stewards

For the past year, Still Water co-director Joline Blais has been president of the Wild Blueberry Heritage Center, headquartered in a physical museum in Columbia Falls and online at WildBlueberryHeritageCenter.org. The museum is an extension of the Wild Blueberry Lands

As part of its Learning With AI initiative, UMaine’s New Media program continues to offer free webinars on ways generative AI like …

Still Water faculty and colleagues have an answer for educators confused about how to cope with the rapid rise of ChatGPT and …

Demand for professionals who can manage collections of digital heritage and data continues to climb rapidly as related job postings rose by …

Scroll to Top