✵ Executive Director, PennWest Center for AI & Emerging Technologies @ PennWest Univ ✵ EdTech Professor @PennwestCEAH
✵ Theory of Virtuality Culture Founder
Exciting news for PennWest University and the Center for AI and Emerging Technologies (CAIET)! PA Western University has been selected as one of only 25 institutional teams from across the country to participate in the 2026 Complete College America AI Summit.
#AI
Friday's NWPA STEM Ecosystem Spring Conference at @pennwedinboro was a reminder of what regional collaboration & info-sharing can look like. Thank you to everyone who attended and introduced the sessions, organized, planned, presented, and showed up!
#STEM#NWPA#AILiteracy#AI
🎤 Honored to be delivering the morning keynote at the NWPA STEM Ecosystem conference @PennWedinboro exploring how AI is reshaping our culture, our classrooms, and our communities. 🪞 @PennwestCEAH@PennWCalifornia@pennwclarion
What a powerful conversation this morning. Huge thanks to Dr. Alecia Blackwood and Cade Kukk for joining our Professional Development Series to present Ubuntu Ethics & AI: What it Means to be Human-Centered. #AIEthics#Ubuntu#AI
Kicking off the morning at the MBA’s 4th Annual Leadership Summit: AI & Cyber Security! ☕️🔐 Nice lineup of speakers tackling what leaders need to know about using AI effectively and keeping their organizations secure. #AILeadership#CyberSecurity#NWPA#AIInManufacturing
🇯🇵A Japanese developer built an app that puts a fat cat on your screen and forces you to take a break
Silicon Valley spent billions on wellness platforms, mindfulness subscriptions, and digital detox retreats
A guy in Japan said: fat cat, problem solved
One of our rockstar IT members, Preston, came today to the Center for AI & ET to go over some updates with our Meta virtual reality headsets. Our nursing program will be using them for treating patients virtually as they just received a grant.
Join us on Friday, May 15th for the SHRM ERIE | 2026 Spring Program at the Sheraton Erie Bayfront Hotel.
Event Details:
Registration: 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Fuel for the Journey: Lunch and all-day beverages will be provided. Reserve your spot at: https://t.co/nm0yEdYHJq
I am excited to meet with the PennWest Women in AI Community of Practice today! This internal community brings together PennWest faculty and staff who are engaging with artificial intelligence across teaching, research, and professional practice. #WomenInAI#AILiteracy#AI
We’re excited to host an upcoming professional development session through the PennWest Center for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (CAIET):
Ubuntu Ethics & AI: What It Means to Be Human-Centered by Dr. Alecia Blackwood. #AI#Ubuntu
Honored to be invited to testify at today’s #Pennsylvania House Committee session on #artificialintelligence. I submitted written testimony related to shaping responsible AI policy and guidance in AI and teacher education. Watch here: https://t.co/kwGNssZAXr @PASSHE#PASSHE#AI
I am very excited to meet and work with the other Critical AI Policy Fellows from all over the world. I feel very honored and humbled to have been included as I just learned that only 10% of the applicants were selected. #AI#policy#criticalAIpolicy
Completed 1st AI presentation today at the Technology Research Symposium of the PA Educational Communications and Technology Association. #AI#presence#virtualityculture
Coming up today... Collaborating with Dr. Christopher Wydra on the 2nd presentation today at the Technology Research Symposium of the @PAECT PA Educational Communications and Technology Association. PennWest Edinboro PennWest California PennWest Clarion #AI#PAECT#Pennsylvania
One of our PennWest University undergraduate ed majors/AI and Tech Ambassadors, Ian Hall, presented for the 1st time at the PAECT - PA Association for Education Communications and Technology Technology Research Symposium. @PennwestCEAH#AI#math#Gemini#ChatGPT#education
Beautiful day at Commonwealth University Bloomsburg.. Attending @PAECT - PA Association for Education Communications and Technology’s Technology Research Symposium today! One of our education
majors/Student AI and Technology Ambassadors is also presenting today!
Almost ready for the state Harrisburg Board of Governors presentation. The BOG members, @PASSHE Chancellor/staff, university presidents, trustees, and union leaders will be in attendance. Tweaking the presentation content a bit… I’m almost ready! #AI