How a Bot Can Take Your Course YouTube video by John Nash's Learning Channel

Generative AI firms are not on your side. They are marketing directly to students about how their platforms will do classwork for students. Think that’s far-fetched? Take a look at this.

Google is tripe kosher All Images Videos Shopping Forums News Al Overview Learn more : Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~ Generative Al is experimental.

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

Students don't engage with content. They engage with people.

Anyone here heading to #21CLHK25 this week in Hong Kong to hang with @21cl.bsky.social and other like minded folks?

Irony too funny for words Oops

It’s hard to make this up.
“Al Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use Al in Job Applications”
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Screenshot of an error message in MS Word that says, "We are sorry, but this feature is deprecated."

I think I'll just say this when I'm asked to weigh in on an inane topic in a meeting.

(Appeared in MS Word upon invoking the dictionary).

this is how every site should look actually

I just put my phone on Do Not Disturb 24/7/365. Only my wife and kids can get through. Everything else can wait. I’ll let you know how it goes.

The teens & screens debate is broken.

At UK, Ryan Hargrove & I are leaning in with our design thinking course, Teens & Screens, a hands-on class to tackle the challenge of teens & tech.

Check out our liquid syllabus: sites.google.com/view/tek-300...

Who’s tackling this too? Let’s connect!

I have listened to most episodes of this valuable podcast by @jasonjohnston.bsky.social and @jnash.bsky.social thanks John, Jason, and guests for the valuable videos that can be applied to all classrooms.

Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following b...

An AI bet! Proceeds to charity, on where AI will be at the end of 2027, with @milesbrundage.bsky.social, formerly of OpenAI.

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Good to see you in here

Flower Darby - Improving Online Teaching: Small Changes, Outsized Impact. Episode 33 of the Online Learning (in the second half) Podcast. www.onlinelearningpodcast.com

I am thrilled to share EP 33 of the Online Learning Podcast with @flowerdarby.bsky.social ! @jnash.bsky.social and I talk with Flower about small steps that can help create more inclusive, equitable, and humanized online learning.

Website: lnkd.in/e8N49bU5
Apple Podcasts: lnkd.in/embjJGvd

Graffiti on a traffic light control box on the street corner that says “my name is Eliot L Green. I lived here from August 20 to April 24. The world is dying, but the people I met here made that bearable. Thank you Lexington.”

#Community. You never know where you’re going to find it.

Research tests if LLMs hold consistent values. LLMs handle neutral topics reliably; controversial issues vary. Not surprising but important to document. Why? Consistency is a known issue with LLMs & value-aware models may be used to exploit users. #LLM #GenAI
arxiv.org/html/2407.02...

This is a lovely starter guide from @tonyvincent.bsky.social for teschers who are considering BlueSky. Share with your colleagues!

Screenshot of paper title, authors, and abstract: "Gendered devaluation underlies faculty retention" (2024), by Katie Spoon, Joanna Mendy, Maria Martinez, Mirta Galesic, Daniel B Larremore, Aaron Clauset, and Lauren A Rivera. Abstract: "Women faculty experience academia differently from men in many ways, which can lead them to consider leaving their positions. Using a large-scale survey of 10,071 current and former tenure- track and tenured faculty, representing nearly all U.S. PhD-granting institutions and 29 diverse fields of study, we show that perceived workplace climate is the most gendered aspect of faculty life, compared to stress related to research pressures, work-life balance, and departmental support. Further, analyzing 6,615 free-text responses from the same respondents reveals that devaluation, both in formal evaluations and informal interactions, is the most gendered workplace climate factor. These patterns are especially salient among women of color and tenured women. Women report that devaluation is exacerbated when institutional leadership fails to respond to devaluation, leading many to leave their jobs. Our results highlight that successful remedies must involve organizational change rather than solely individual solutions."

Yes to all of this. Fwiw, our survey respondents had A LOT to say about the particular reasons. We wrote up the results here: "Gendered devaluation underlies faculty retention", also led by @kspoon.bsky.social, with @danlarremore.bsky.social, @larivera.bsky.social and others. osf.io/preprints/so...

Cute white fluffy bunny wearing amber glamorous glasses and saying “ woah bro did you just judge yourself for doing your best?”

Saw this today while watching MyNameIsDeya’s YT feed. Couldn’t be more applicable for so many of us. Remember: you got this. www.instagram.com/p/DA6oBilNBs...

Prof. Ryan Hargrove & I can attest to this: students enter college believing they should (a) be good at school & (b) don’t have to be good at learning. When 18 y-os enter our ungraded, project based, community driven course, we start the work to help them unlearn 12 years of indoctrination. #EduSky

Digital devices are now part of everything we do—They’ve become essential & hard to avoid in our daily lives. Carlos Davidovich shares his experiencetaking a break from online work and social media to simply going forwalk lnkd.in/fyNvHxr #wellbeing #digitaldevices#internationalschoolspodcast

As #edusky & other BlueSky teacher communities emerge, it's worth remembering that many educators left Twitter well before the Elon et. al toxicity period. Excessive self-promotion, lack of professional benefit, stress/burnout, noise, erosion of dialogue, etc. were all factors. Let's learn and grow.

I love this simple insertion of #GenAI into a tried and true collaborative teaching technique. It can extend thinking within the pair and group, and set up constructive critique of how and when GenAI is and isn’t appropriate or useful. Thanks, @courosa.bsky.social! #EduSky

Making the case for rekindling reading for fun among youth: “The skills that students use when reading for fun — especially reading longer texts — are also the same ones they need for everything from reading car manuals to ‘listening to political discourse and making sense of it’” #EduSky

Each tip in this piece is applicable immediately and fit even in undergraduate and graduate courses. I found two I’ll use right away in my classes. #EduSky

For fun, I tried replicating Edward Zitron's if ChatGPT 4o knows the number of states with “A” in the name. The offering is 33, including Connecticut. The correct answer is 36. Will this be covered in the new Common Sense Media guide for educators?

#generativeAI #ChatGPT

You also have to bring your own child car seat if traveling with a child that requires one.

It kept to 25 MPH for the most part — accounting for stop and go downtown LA traffic, getting to that speed was a feat.

Yep -- the vehicle won't go until it knows you've buckled up.

@bethrous.bsky.social and I just took our first #Waymo ride. Pretty surreal. Ask me anything.

I’m sympathetic to horrified colleagues receiving superficially grammatical garbage assignments. What have the students actually learned? Turning stuff in is not evidence of learning, though it has come to be students’ primary task. Checking things off the #LMS assignment list. 2/2