The Journal of Basic Writing is live with Vol. 44, Iss. 1! The issue reflects on equity language in developmental education, the stakes of student self-placement, career-making and contingent labor, and error-as-play in William Steig’s The Bad Speller.

Read it here: wacclearinghouse.org/jbw/v44n1/

Resharing “Read-Write-Prompt” at #OpenEd25, a year-long focused inquiry group on teaching critical AI literacy within and across disciplines. Thanks to @gctlc.bsky.social and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for making this collaboration possible 👏🏼

Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct · Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Model card on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5...

Playground - Hugging Face Hugging Face API Inference Playground

Qwen-2.5 VL is said to support modern handwritten arabic. You can demo it here: huggingface.co/playground?m...

The Critical AI Literacy Institute YouTube video by BronxEdTech

youtu.be/C6jsMnBSv5M 👾

Excerpt from an Introduction to an issue of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy that discusses educator challenges, the impact of global crises, and the role of openness, care, and community in teaching practice.

Issue 26 of JITP invites reflections on the intersecting relationships, places, and solidarities that undergird our shared educational spaces and practices

Read Asma Neblett, @zmuhl.bsky.social, and Kyla Yein on local connections in their Introduction: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/introdu...

Check out JITP’s Issue 26 now!📍

It has lesson plans, case studies, classroom models + frameworks, with utility for teachers and technologists alike: tinyurl.com/JITP-26

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CUNY Graduate Center Awarded $1 Million Grant by Google.org to Advance AI Literacy in Higher Education Through the three-year initiative, CUNY faculty and graduate student fellows will prepare curricular materials to promote responsible use of AI in the classroom.

Excited to be part of this initiative, working with my TLC colleagues to sponsor and support critical AI literacy at #CUNY and beyond ✊🏼

www.gc.cuny.edu/news/cuny-gr...

📢 There’s still time to submit to Issue 26 of the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy (JITP)! We’re seeking critical, creative work on technology and pedagogy, from articles and case studies to multimedia and more. Last call is November 30, 2024: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

one thing you gain from reading in detail about the actual operations of a presidential administration is a recognition that even the most competent and dedicated political staff with the best leadership struggles to bend the federal bureaucracy in its direction

elon/vivek will slash tons of civil service jobs and try to replace them with chatbots. he'll make a ton of money on gov service contracts while pushing out anyone who doesn't immediately fall in line. there won't be any meaningful accountability measures, so things will just coast (poorly) downhill

Is everybody believing in the servers? If you don't believe in the servers they don't work

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rebooting social, please wait…

I made a CUNY Graduate Center starter pack containing GC community members and alumni. Please let me know if I've missed you! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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