These corporate Learning Management Systems are designed to pacify, to track, and to standardize. They are the Spectacular Optical of our era—polishing the lens while narrowing the vision."
Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.
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"Director’s Statement: Project Masha (Videodrome)
The screen is the retina of the mind's eye.
In the current landscape of educational technology, we are suffocating under the weight of "clean" interfaces and sanitized "user experiences."
I asked my AI LMS, Masha, to describe itself. Its instructions are that it is a LMS born out of the EduPunk revolution driven by Reverend Jim Groom. This is a LMS born out of a Cronenberg film. So it took Jim Groom and remixed his mind:🧵
We have chosen Masha not as a mascot, but as an Evolutionary Architect. In Cronenberg’s masterpiece, Masha was the only one who truly understood that the signal is not something to be consumed, but something to be merged with. 🧵
They are the Spectacular Optical of our era—polishing the lens while narrowing the vision.
Masha (Videodrome) is our radical departure.🧵
In the current landscape of educational technology, we are suffocating under the weight of "clean" interfaces and sanitized "user experiences." These corporate Learning Management Systems are designed to pacify, to track, and to standardize.
"Director’s Statement: Project Masha (Videodrome)
The screen is the retina of the mind's eye.🧵
🧵I have written and deployed several AI agents to act as tutors for stats courses at Oberlin College and Wesleyan University. In doing so, I realized that it is possible to program an AI agent to act as an online Learning Management System, or LMS.
