What ties happiness, women’s empowerment, and sustainable living together? A UMaine permaculture course created by New Media faculty explored this question with Jim Merkel, director of the award-winning documentary Saving Walden’s World. On December 3rd, the Fernald Center hosted a packed screening of Merkel’s film, which highlights the connection between happiness, land stewardship, and women-led […]
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This semester 50 students in the Intro to New Media course embarked on a four-month experiment comparing AI and traditional digital methods across eight creative tasks ranging from writing essays to coding game avatars.
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New Media’s Learning With AI partnership with Computer Science and other campus units continues to explore new creative and ethical questions posed by the rapid rise of AI. Its recommendations include a framework for deciding when it’s OK to use ChatGPT and a novel approach to assigning a term paper.
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Still Water Co-director Joline Blais was part of the team that helped organize the 2019 America East Hackathon, which focused on developing inexpensive apps and systems to sustain local farmers.
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