I’d extend this argument to say that a lot (maybe most) courses are writing courses because writing is a big part of how we communicate what we know about our subject
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I’d extend this argument to say that a lot (maybe most) courses are writing courses because writing is a big part of how we communicate what we know about our subject
The best I've read in quite some time. I STRONGLY hope / recommend that you find/make time to read it in its entirety.
From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/visions-of-l...
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
As always, here's @marcusluther.bsky.social with a truly excellent piece on @edutopia.org! In education, we talk about the time about teachers modeling learning and behavioral habits for kids. Marcus applies that same idea here to our AI use.
www.edutopia.org/article/teac...
CFP, AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation & Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices! Note "This collection is focused ...on the strategies & actions of individuals, communities, organisations & collectives to actively resist, refuse, reimagine & reclaim 'artificial intelligence."
Good thread on the psychological violence and emptiness of wrangling synthetic text.
Still, note that "hallucination" is a misnomer; the epistemic nihilism is always. Meaning is strictly in the eye of the beholder and correctness or falsehood can only ever be incidental, linguistic serendipity.
We need a new model for peace education for this world. Here is one school that is giving me hope for the future medium.com/@heatherlesl...
Hi friends - I'm working on article about efforts to measure, track, and adjust WORKLOAD in higher ed, both for staff and faculty.
I'm interested in talking to people who have experiences w/:
-Workload management gone wrong
-Exemplars of workload measurement
-True tales of workload being adjusted
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
posted today by @sjcerv.bsky.social
This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky
www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
okay real quick 🧵: why AI is definitely going to explode and die, because of the last two times this happened: the dot-com bubble, and enron.
people say these events are complicated, but they're actually pretty simple
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
Many in industry are now realigning their role into essentially data entry for an LLM, following this same pattern.
Love Prof Sepinwall’s approach to cultivating student engagement, belonging, and success in the classroom 🙌
I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.
These thieves keep stealing blueprints from my theft empire!
Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin approved a proposal to establish a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence funded by private corporations and philanthropy. Mnookin said the move was a response to the inevitable creep of artificial intelligence into all disciplines of academia. Rather than reject AI, she envisioned a university that capitalized on this change by making artificial intelligence a "hub" connecting the humanities to computer science.
On the first day of my economics elective this spring, my professor said we would be expected to use NotebookLM to pass his class. He had lengthened the coding assignments so that they would be doable only with the help of AI. The reading assignments were longer, too: ten 40-page papers per week, which he asked us to feed into AI for a summary rather than read ourselves. When it came to lectures, he told us to simply upload the slides to AI and ask it to teach us whatever he failed to explain properly in class.
BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI.
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...
Genuine question about this:
What does it actually look like to “augment thinking” using AI in a way that actually enhances a student’s intellectual growth?
In my personal experimentation, AI short-circuits the kind of thinking that allows for building knowledge and reflection on worldview … 🤷🏾♂️
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
And for *me*, given what I know now and how *I* feel, it would be “critical washing” to use LLMs with my students for reading and writing.
bsky.app/profile/iris...
"the loss of critical thinking and learning skills is less of a personal failure and more of a policy one, calling the generation of Americans educated with gadgets victims of a failed pedagogical experiment."
shorturl.at/Xukya
Important thread about dehumanization by and for the benefit of tech companies w/lots of good resources
This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI.
AI does three main things:
1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive
2) transfer wealth upwards
3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)
"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."
The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
I’m interested to know what happens in cases like this where the university provides an institutional license to a chatbot (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.). If universities are providing access to the chatbot and it causes harm, who is liable?
An Effective Altruist writing about AI should be taken as seriously as a Scientologist writing about L Ron Hubbard webworm.co/newgods
The spirit gripped me today and moved me to write this essay on "good old fashioned artificial intelligence," which I position as opposite to the ethically compromised Machine Learning-based AI of today. I don't think people will like what I have to say.
blog.wellssanto.com/revisiting-g...
