“Students aren’t great at asking questions well “
This is basically a tenet of reference work in libraries. We get a masters degree in how to understand an information need when the person in need can’t or won’t articulate it.
Every librarian who’s ever lived:😳🤯😆🤣🙃🫥💀🪦
Turnitin published a video on YouTube showing its "Clarity" chatbot alongside ChatGPT. Don't fund this, fund AskAway. Students deserve better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Jk...
I think it is safe to say hackers from all over the world are uploading publicly-available remote proctoring software to Claude.
Infographic from linked report. "100,000+ papers were submitted"
Turnitin Clarity, their AI use and process tracking add-on, is a huge flop. 13 months after its release, only ~100,000 papers were submitted using it. When Turnitin's AI detector was released in 2023, over 200 million papers were reviewed in the following year. go.turnitin.com/turnitin-lea...
Are they alive??
Rather than prevent AI technology from accessing gobs of student data in the Canvas LMS, Instructure plans to take a cut. One vendor said the increased fees on API calls are planned to go into effect in August.
I like it, but my post is referring to Canvas, the Learning Management System by Instructure.
Vendors are telling clients that Instructure is going to begin charging them for API calls. Get ready for increased costs on third-party integrations with Canvas.
I posted screenshots of the questions students using Piazza are required to fill out, which includes personal email address. Palantir was able to export this information through their agreement with Piazza. My knowledge of this is from a decade ago.
My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."
Microsoft: LOL
Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
This post on eLiterate describes how Piazza sold student data via its Careers product. My comment on the first post led to me being disciplined.
eliterate.us/popular-disc...
Until now, Turnitin has claimed a 1% rate of false positives. I haven't seen that claim in a while.
Turnitin's CEO writes "the old "deter and detect" mindset of academic integrity is no longer scalable or effective".
This is a shocking turnaround. Plagiarism detection? AI detection? No longer scalable or effective, according to Turnitin. So stop paying for it!
www.turnitin.com/blog/what-is...
Palantir has student data, including immigration status, from the ed tech discussion platform Piazza.
Palantir paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
I blew the whistle on this in 2016 and the CEO contacted my employer.
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This made my night! Capilano University's 2025 Privacy Impact Assessment for ProctorU concludes "Based on the identified risks within this PIA,it has been decided by the ETLE Committee to stop any further use of ProctorU by the University." privacylibrary.ca/wp-content/u...
I hope the AI scraping bots soon to discover these PDFs get sabotaged somehow by all the redactions.
Today I made my collection of Privacy Impact Assessments as openly accessible as possible. I discovered a plugin was preventing Internet Archive and Google from fully indexing PDFs on the website, so I made a single page for every Privacy Impact Assessment: privacylibrary.ca/all-privacy-...
I'm honoured to have my remote proctoring work with BCcampus cited in three submissions to the People's Consultation on AI. So much of what I do is intended to promote public participation but I don't always get to see the impact. Here I do. bccampus.ca/event/specia...
Screenshot from People's Consultation of AI website: "While these submissions are open to be used for further research and analysis or related grassroots or civic initiatives, *we would ask, as a matter of public spiritedness, ethics, and respect, that you do not feed submissions into any LLM programs, chatbots, or similar software* (at the very least, those which are any of commercial, proprietary, public, or cloud-based) *without the explicit prior consent of each submission’s respective authors*."
The People's Consultation of AI submissions have been published and the AI statement caught my eye. (emphasis in original)
www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/submissions/
Added 9 PIAs from Emily Carr University, and 10 from University of Victoria, and 23 from University of Victoria. We're up to 582 total. I've also updated the homepage to indicate when each school last had PIAs added to the library. privacylibrary.ca
Right now it's solely focused on technologies used by BC public post-secondary institutions.
With the Canadian Privacy Library, I’m working to demystify privacy. By making Privacy Impact Assessments openly accessible, it helps people understand how their personal information is being collected and protected. This information is too often concealed by lack of transparency. That's over now.
Calling it a day. Added 3 PIAs from Capilano University, 14 from College of New Caledonia, 9 from College of the Rockies, 11 from Justice Institute of British Columbia, 2 from Langara College, and 23 from Vancouver Community College. This should be all PIAs from 2024-2026.
Uploading tons of 2024-2026 PIAs to the Canadian Privacy Library! 10 schools have responded so far. privacylibrary.ca
Not feeling our designs? Want to make something other than a poster? Download the Creative Commons licensed alt text and use it to grow Zero Textbook Cost where you are. zerotextbookcost.opened.ca/wp-content/u...
Today the BCIT/BCcampus Zero Textbook Cost Initiative delivered again. We interviewed 30 BCIT faculty and used their feedback to make posters anyone can use to promote ZTC. Find what works for you, add your URL, and help grow Zero Textbook Cost!
zerotextbookcost.opened.ca/ztc-posters/
