I inquired and was told one would be forthcoming.

But grad students often can't afford to.

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One thing I find interesting is the extent to which students appear to believe they are supposed to know things before they've actually learned them.

Had students (senior undegrad) running a session of their capstone class. They gave a mini lecture & then a kahoot, in which classmates got wrong easy questions pulled directly from the lecture. They were stunned by the experience.

I promise I'm not trying to revive this discussion. Just wanted to highlight how this aligns with my "whose trust?" question. Nobody seems to care about the ways my trust in higher ed has been eroded.

I don't think # of cases is a rigor question. Scholars do scholarship on single country cases or single org cases all the time. The rigor question in case study research is a question of depth and of being clear what the scholarship can and cannot say, and then finding the right home for it.

They’re not people lacking skills. They’re people who have the skills to see specifically why the AI is degrading their specific work environments, productivity, and products and who are pushing back against AI enthusiasts who lack the skills and expertise to see the problems.

This isn’t a criticism, but I’ve noticed that a lot of local/state progressive criticism seems to be confined to the (center-)left politicians who make public statements defending their “bad” actions as opposed to the moderate politicians who do the same bad action without explaining themselves.

With you on that.

Some majors don't have a single unique course. Eliminating them doesn't necessarily save any money.

The more code is AI written, & the fewer people who develop coding skills, the less likely it will be that errors are caught & bugs are debugged in the future. So even if it's not a problem now, it would become a major one eventually.

It's not shitty to say that the only way you have enough time to sleep is to stop spending 4 hours a day captioning your videos by hand.

Not if folks give up on the LMS because they don't have enough hours in the day and/or don't want to lose the academic freedom to choose course materials. In fact, the move the needle squarely into backlash. Which I sometimes, in this ableist era, think is the goal.

put on faculty is so extreme (eg expecting faculty to caption their own videos) that many courses are going to become less accessible as faculty pull materials off the LMS, return to paper, & stop using videos. It will remain legal to have a completely inaccessible class as long as it's hard copy.

I do not think these guidelines are helping accessibility. The tools used to determine if online documents are accessible do not work effectively & force busywork to fix documents that are fine while marking completely inaccessible documents as 100% ok. I have examples. Meanwhile, the burden

Well that will make my next week less stressful...

It's been proposed in the past & rejected. It seems to be a response more to the Brown & Pawtucket incidents (in both of which cases the relevant officers *were* armed & that didn't help any). No way to tell, but it seems like minds had been made up before the CCRI incident.

Increasingly, given the ableist backlash, I think this is the goal. In pretending to be accessible, make things less accessible. Deny accommodations because the course has a 100% Ally score & you can't need more. Drum up resentment so disabled folks are drummed out. Seek a disability free higher ed.

This process isn't really increasing accessibility. It is going to cause many faculty to think their courses are accessible when they aren't. And it is going to cause many faculty to give up on LMS & return to paper, reducing accessibility profoundly, esp when being told to caption our own videos.

Experiments in Blackboard Ally & Title II: this process is 1 part CYA & 2 parts meaningless busywork. Documents a screen reader can't read score 100% if you give them a citation. Making one line in a document heading-format can get to 100%. Documents screen readers do fine with will get a 2%.

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Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?"

Say it with your whole chest.

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Roger Williams would like a word.

Woo hoo!

There are *so many* instances of wrong site surgery

Yes

And you are suggesting the US is innocent of genocide so we should just go our happy way doing whatever we want while engaging in collective punishment of Israeli academics, including of Israeli a ademics who happen to be the very Palestinians whose people are experiencing genocide. Got it.

Depends on whether your question is about the costs & benefits of a strategy or about whether it makes any sense at all to exclude people in one autocratic warmongering country from access to scholarship while continuing to privilege access for people from another autocratic warmongering country.