I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses.
You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one
OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.
Four Canadian Privacy Commissioners investigated TikTok and found that the measures in place to keep children off the platform and prevent the collection and use of their sensitive personal information for profiling and targeting purposes were inadequate.
Full report: www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/in...
Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
"We think people are fallible, which they are. But it doesn't mean you throw away the people and then you put all of your faith in the system or in the machine."
Gettin' Air - The Open Pedagogy Podcst with Dr. Jess Mitchell!
Get ready for some delicious mind delights as OCADu's Dr. Jess Mitchell joins the show to discuss her dissertation: A Pedagogy of One: Engaging the ‘Missing Middle’ Toward Inclusion in Education.
www.spreaker.com/episode/dr-j...
Google recently updated Chrome to detect when you are taking an LMS quiz and offer "Homework Help" in the address bar. Students are encouraged to upload screenshots of their quiz to Google Lens to get answers.
Panic is spreading. Increased surveillance is coming. We can stop it. Watch me. Join me.
How many times out of 100 is the opposite of what they claim the actual truth? 100?
The primary use case is fraud.
The view of Community of Praxis in a podcatcher app. This has the stylized art of people talking with Cate Denial’s picture inset in a circle. Text reads: Episode 1a: CoP Interview: A Pedagogy of Kindness with Cate Denial
The first feature-length episode of Community of Praxis is out! I got to have a long chat with @cjdenial.bsky.social about kindness, ungrading, and the radical act of actually trying to assess learning. Please listen and share! www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Scholarly-Po...
I wonder if there are any very recent examples of this happening
Learning with AI is like motorsports. You go so much faster, but the machine is what's making you go fast. Not you. NASCAR learning. What can you do when the machine isn't there?
holy crap I would pay so much to be in this course
the cover image of a book called Teaching with AI
Damn it I thought this was about co-teaching a course with Al Yankovic.
yes he was, he was
The deadline for submissions has been extended to September 15! THANK YOU to everyone who has already made a submission... and help us spread the word.
Multicolored silhouettes of people facing each other with speech bubbles above their heads. The text reads New Podcast! Community of Praxis with Brenna Clarke Gray. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Today we launch Community of Praxis, a new podcast with Brenna Clarke Gray. Twice monthly Brenna sits down for critical chats about teaching and learning to invite a more care-centred, student-focused approach into classrooms, while still minding structural limitations like time and precarity.
The AI bubble is bursting? An MIT study says 95% of generative AI implementations in enterprise provide no real value?
You could have avoided this disaster if you had read my new book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN6H5LDB
Can humans suffer... any more of this bullshit?
Check out @nataliekt.bsky.social on @greeneterry.bsky.social's Gettin' Air podcast about open pedagogy! Together, they discuss Reading the Room as a resource for educators:
A middle school I interact with is in a state with a school cellphone ban and y’all everybody in there is relieved. EVERYBODY. The kids, the teachers, the janitors. They are so relieved. Nobody is really uptight about it…except some parents.
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Season 8 of Gettin' Air - The Open Pedagogy Podcast is underway!
It is time to get some air with Dr. Natalie Kouri-Towe, Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University! We chat about the new book: Reading the Room - Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom
www.spreaker.com/episode/nata...
It's so great that we get to do everything with an overconfident dumb-ass know-it-all in the way all the time.
the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god
💯 Hip hop & rap were incredibly instructive to my early understanding of scholarly communication.
Examples:
mixtape/sites = preprint/servers
beat packs = data sets
unit calc. = alt/metrics
Life of Pablo = record of versions
sampling = citation (& fair use)
© = ©
and so on.
