would anyone be interested in hearing how faculty & staff might not get merit raises this year (keeping in mind that we are below the national average for salaries) but yet CU still paid $2 million for access to a version of ChatGPT that is about as good as the free version? anyone? #ruminating
I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible.
Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:
Free book idea for Mo Willems!
Per(May)sion!
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the question's not whether teenagers are interested in books, it's whether they have adequate time, support, bandwidth to take them seriously
The thing about imagining your own personal Star Trek is that every single 18th c novel works with the word “space” in front of the title.
This thing runs for 20 seasons and 5 eps a year are dedicated to Toby.
Wait maybe space Tristram Shandy?
“If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?”
Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” in space. Obv.
Oooh would you be willing to share this syllabus?
Teachers weren’t wrong to ban Wikipedia as a research source. Wikipedia became more credible due to active choices made by the org and (really) its community editors. No real evidence that any of the Gen AI companies are interested in taking that path.
Season 3 of Bluey is for the freaks and weirdos (complimentary). Every 8-minute episode leaves my child totally confused and me in tears.
Teachers weren’t wrong to ban Wikipedia as a research source. Wikipedia became more credible due to active choices made by the org and (really) its community editors. No real evidence that any of the Gen AI companies are interested in taking that path.
The 2 pieces of advice I got most often in grad school were:
1. Publish X articles to be competitive on the market (in which X increased from 2 to 4 over the course of my degree).
2. Read now when you have the time! You won’t have time when you’re a prof!
we should give teachers time to read
I get it: I had a Moby Dick epiphany this year too, but let’s not say something we might regret!
Season 3 of Bluey is for the freaks and weirdos (complimentary). Every 8-minute episode leaves my child totally confused and me in tears.
My students in general turn in noticeably better work if I give them one class period to write than they do if I give them an evening. The only explanation we can manage is that the classroom is a less distracting environment.
Oh man now I want to read an article connecting the dots between lynch and dickens.
Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.
I think some (maybe even a lot?) of this is anxiety about perceived class / gender divides between work in higher ed and k12 ed that, if they ever existed at all, are now fully collapsing.
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I sometimes think academics can mistake etymology for destiny, but how can you express surprise that your “provocative” post provoked an animated response?!
In grad school, I had a gig taking notes for a big “commission on the liberal arts.” More than once, someone brought up the concept of killing AP credits, everyone murmured agreements, and then someone sheepishly would say “admissions would never go for it.”
Like getting yet another Jack episode on LOST.
The thing about Grammarly’s Expert Review feature is that any LLM would confidently edit your document in the guise of any writer, living or dead. This is not meant to be a defense of grammarly.
Emo hair: older than I realized! 🔒
He lacks the fluidity of today’s most advanced chatbots!
Sort of wild that the “you prefer human writing” blurb is written to nonetheless extol the virtues of AI generated text.