This week’s focus on critical thinking and equity in digital spaces made me take a step back from how I’ve been using technology, especially AI, and think more about what’s happening underneath it. Comparing this topic to my inquiry project, a lot of my attention has been on utilizing AI tools to improve resume structure,…
Looking back on this inquiry project, it started off with a simple project pitch: What AI tools could improve resumes. As a computer science student, it felt like a practical problem to solve as I step into learning more about the professional workplace and job application process. As the project developed, it became a lot…
Over the past few weeks, I’ve become more interested in how digital literacy extends beyond just using technology and into understanding how information, data, and ownership actually functions for modern systems. As someone studying computer science and learning more about how companies operate in a data-driven environment, I’ve started to think more critically about who…
As part of our inquiry into AI-created resumes, portfolios, and job searching in today’s world, one of our options to further our inquiry was to meet with industry professionals. Our pod had the chance to speak with an industry professional who shared a lot of practical insight into hiring, interviewing, and how the tech landscape…
This week, while working through topics around digital literacy, technology, and communication, our group happened to meet with our professor to talk about our inquiry project. During that conversation, we briefly touched on the SCIPAB framework as a way to structure ideas more clearly, especially when explaining problems and solutions. It wasn’t the main focus…
For our inquiry project, our pod is exploring how AI tools can help students build stronger technical portfolios and navigate the modern job search. After outlining our inquiry direction in the first post, this week I moved into the experimentation phase with my pod. My goal was to test how different large language models handle…
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot more about what it actually means to use AI “professionally,” and how different that feels compared to how I’ve used it as a student. Before this course and our inquiry project, AI tools like ChatGPT were mostly just something I’d use to explain concepts, help…
This week, we are looking into topics surrounding data ownership, cybersecurity, and a new term to me, datafication, which is described as the process of turning everyday human activity into data that can be analyzed and monetized. In a recent guest lecture, Dr. Bonnie Stewart from the University of Windsor spoke about how this shift…
For our inquiry assignment, our pod is exploring how to build an accessible technical portfolio and navigate the modern job search using AI-supported tools. As computer science students, we’ve noticed that much of our technical work such as projects, code, and external learning often stays hidden inside our local computers or disconnected platforms. Our goal…
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring how generative AI acts as a tool and resource by reflecting on its impact on my daily life, my future as a student, and the broader educational landscape. This reflection has pushed me to look beyond simple automation and gain a deeper understanding of how Large Language…