NEW PUB: In this piece I unpack our current racialized surveillance regime in US public education, developing ambivalent surveillance to describe the precarious position critical educators occupy in these Times of Anti-Woke, and considering ways to resist in the classroom.
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Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
To all my social science and humanities folks. #humanities #socialscience
When schools want to get rid of teachers, they force teachers to ‘train’ their own digital replacements. This is what is happening on the larger scale. “Cost reductions” for the institutions, while students still get massive student loan debts, while the quality of education collapses (even more).
I wrote this back in the summer. It looks at a variety of economic, environmental, and trust-related concerns.
I speculated on the future of fully synthesised, software-based ‘actors’ and hyperrealistic AI replicas as part of a broader series on the future of software in filmmaking.
My students loved this article and it led to some really great multi day conversations and responses
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#EduSky #criticalai #aiedu #edtech #bced
This is less about generative AI directly and more about the tech culture that gives rise to it, in case useful. It summarizes a few key points I’ve been trying to get across for years with a helpful diagram. 🤓
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I would say this but .. @himself.bsky.social 's "The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI" back in January was really on it.
Finally (and at the risk of reading too far into the “what’s yours?” prompt) this article collates criticisms of rhetoric and ai as same-but-not-identical grapplings with a “copious void,” or both too much and not enough, all at once.
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Tamara Kneese’s “Memento Mori” on the entanglements of a.i. and death culture and the promise of immortality:
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Shannon Vallor’s “The Danger Of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think” offers a balance of critical and futural thinking on the harms of gen a.i.
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This may be overdoing it, but here are a few: first, Tarleton Gillespie’s creative audit of a.i. writing platforms:
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Virginia Eubanks sounded the alarm in 2018 in this book.
Taking photos of colleagues while they are speaking on a panel is an act of love. Compiling them into a grid is a vibe! Grateful to the friend-colleague who sent me this.
Coming up: excited to be part of this online conference on feminist pedagogy in EAP. Going to be scripting and performing a personal narrative that engages with Suzanne Damarin's "Would you rather be a cyborg or a goddess?" feminismxeap.wordpress.com
What is the inspiration for how you teach? For me, it's my grandmother and mother. I work with feminist pedagogy, and that has a history of its own. But I'm thinking of my foremothers, and their contribution to my operationalization of feminist pedagogy.
Personally, I love it when there's a fun conversation. Maybe a student asking questions, cracking a joke here and there. Adds a relational layer.
I hear you. It's not for everyone. I know people who fall asleep if they're just listening with no visual input.
I've considered this in place of recorded lectures, actually. But it can't just be an audio lecture because they are so used to the visual cues of ppt. There would have to be major restructuring of content and layering of audio cues to make up for the lack of the visual.
