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alula-auburn.bsky.social

@alula-auburn.bsky.social

Chicago. Cats. Crochet. Chronic illness. Trying to read & write, trying to advocate for humane pedagogy, trying not to succumb to AI, political, environmental or other despair.

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Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2w ago

If we are to truly resist fascism, we must reject the idea that only the strong survive. We must categorically reject any notion that worth is determined by physical ability or socioeconomic status or what you produce under capitalism. We must build networks of community care.

alula-auburn.bsky.social@alula-auburn.bsky.social · 2w ago

"And in a test designed to measure optimism, the Galahs grew more hopeful of finding their favorite treat (a walnut) when they’d had several days of free flight and more pessimistic about their walnut prospects after several days of being grounded." Same, birds. Same. No walnuts to be found.

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do birds enjoy flying? Scientists asked cockatoos www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-b...

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 2w ago

These sorts of things sound good in one sense--we'll do it all! But in what a lot of us teach, this just doesn't make sense. Instead of treating "using AI" like something that is equivalent to "doing the thing," we need to think about what we actually want students to be able to do. Think through/1

We should also be realistic and revolutionary, adopting this tried-and-tested principle – what I call “teach both, test both” – for AI now. Every subject, from history to English literature, should be divided in two: teach students to use AI in one part, teach students to flourish without it in the other – and, crucially, examine both. A teacher cannot monitor whether or not a student uses AI in the quiet solitude of their bedroom. But nothing can replace the feeling of sitting in an exam, looking at the paper, and feeling that cold sweat when you realise you haven’t prepared for both parts.
Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

The original article is more complex than this blurb suggests, but still infuriating. Susskind only briefly acknowledges AI’s “confident and plausible answers that are completely made up,” b/c his focus is on how to make education more engaging and personalized. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Scott Stein@sstein.bsky.social · last mo.

Students are often portrayed as antagonists/perpetrators in AI cheating stories, and surely some of them are—I won't entirely dismiss their capacity to make choices. But students are also the main victims. The real villains are not living in dorms or going into debt to learn nothing.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last mo.

Almost every single student who has found me this week wants to talk about AI. A couple reflections. One student has taken three AI courses in philosophy, health sciences and comm. They’re basically the same class. As it turns out, it doesn’t take a lot of classes to “learn” ai.

@amulya.bsky.social · last mo.

My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.

The Drift@thedriftmag.com · last mo.

Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last mo.

I'll have more to say about this quote from the article below, but for now just this: We are absolutely not solving the right problem if we end up with a system in which students are being policed by bots while writing papers that no one but a bot is going to read.

Humans also have a lot of bias. There actually have been studies about how human beings grade students differently based on their perceptions of them. I don’t say that to dismiss the fears of AI. I just also want to say the bar shouldn’t be perfection. The goal is: Could you have a system that’s more consistent and less biased than the status quo? Even if you had an amazing English teacher, who gives very consistent and good feedback, if that teacher has to grade 100 papers on “The Great Gatsby,” it’s going to take them a week or two, and in many cases, the limiting factor on how much feedback you can get depends on how much bandwidth the teacher has, and the teacher ... is spending so much time. We do not do AI grading of full papers yet, but we do have a system that gives AI feedback on papers, and I do think in the next year it will be possible to do pretty solid rubrics-based grading. The benefit of a technical system is that you can benchmark it. You can test it for bias – checking whether details like a family’s cultural background in any way change the feedback that is given.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.

“The first version of Khanmigo was completely optional. Now, it’s actually in the student’s incentive to work with the AI because if the AI deems that you know it, now you’ll get credit for it.”

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last mo.

This seems so clear to me as a teacher and is what drove me to develop a course and a first-year AI curriculum that are *about* gen AI rather than focused on "how to use it." But there is a lot of FOMO driving the decisions to focus on making sure students "know how to use it" instead

“It’s a hard time to be a college student,” Fiesler said. “People who have been out of college for a long time are telling students that everyone needs to use AI, but those people already know how to do things. They learned how to do them without AI. If people are using ChatGPT to do things for them from the very beginning, then they will never learn how to do those things.”
Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · last mo.

"'AI is adverse to the idea of learning. An educational institution should be focused more on teaching us than making us ready for a job. I’m not measuring my success on a billionaire’s mindset. I want education for the sake of education. I want to learn.’” ht: Dagmar Monett

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources.

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think about this finding a lot: "Students whose school uses AI for many reasons are more likely to report that they or a friend of theirs has had a back-and-forth conversation with AI, like chatbots, in potentially troubling ways." From @cdt.org's report:

Hand in Hand: Schools’ Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students

Artificial intelligence (AI) has continued to alter the educational experiences of teachers, students, and parents during the 2024-25 school year. The frequency and variety of AI uses continues to gro...

cdt.org

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

“…the researchers found that opening up to chatbots about personal issues made some people feel not better but worse.”

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And when (either able bodied or certain disabled) people tell you that we must not criticize AI because it might have access use-cases, its really important to push back with examples like this, but also how gAI will cut the kinds of freelance work many disabled people rely on, and cutting services.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s not a coincidence that many disabled people are leading the charge against AI. We understand it will be weaponized against us. Used to target anyone deemed “less than” or “non productive” Shame on Meta. Stop using AI. It will come for you eventually. www.reuters.com/world/meta-u...

Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yep [as Linda knows] this is also a common response when someone accused of misconduct or abuse: "He was nice to me/I never saw it." Right so [Chidi voice] you get how that makes it worse??! This person KNEW how to be good, thoughtful etc & chose not to act that way in situations where it mattered!

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes.

alula-auburn.bsky.social@alula-auburn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m staring down my birthday after what has honestly been one (really two) pretty terrible years personally, professionally, healthwise etc. I had to make a new account last month, but if you see this and want to send me cute animal pics, nerdy jokes, yelling about AI, or complimenting my crochet…

My pretty senior kitty Clio posed very cutely on the couch next to a pink canvas crate. She is a gray tabby sporting some excellent whiskers and big pile of paws.Clio the grey tabby cat putting up with my resting a circle of blue crochet on her head, like a hat, while she loafs on my lap. She looks both disgusted and resigned.A crocheted aquarium I made featuring a water backdrop, three fish and assorted corals. I mixed, matched and adapted so many pattern designs I can’t list them all, but if you have specific questions DM!Another view of the crocheted aquarium I made with different fish, an octopus, and some shells.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.

Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)

For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh...

meditationsinanemergency.com

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What I find especially interesting is the section where they tried to get "Bella" to discuss her work and she couldn't with any depth or knowledge. This is the same thing that happens with students who use genAI for research or writing help. There is no there there.

Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼@bonabooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report: