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Per Willingham’s research on critical thinking, expertise in one domain doesn’t automatically translate into expertise in other domains.

Excited to read this!

@ucsandiego.bsky.social: spread the word. #calfresh

Good question. “How could America’s most selective universities continue favoring children of alumni after the Supreme Court prohibited them from favoring underrepresented minority applicants?”

Harvard’s last Affirmative Action program is for the rich | Fortune

Three years after affirmative action’s end, Harvard still favors applicants by ancestry.

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Jennie Brand gives you evidence-based responses to the most common arguments against going to college. #GoToCollege newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/6-t...?

Here’s my off-the-cuff hypothesis of the day, inspired by Norbert Elias. In his book on the Civilizing Process, Elias makes one of those cool, sweeping, blow-your-mind historial claims:

Fascinating! It’s only the first part of the lecture! #AI www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8TbtSgs/

if you sleep well tonight, you might no understood this talk - godfather of ai #ai

TikTok video by Fireeyes

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I attended this event at SDSU yesterday that was really interesting. It was a debate with an interesting format. The prompt was:

“Diversity is a fact. Equity is a choice. Inclusion is an… [outcome]” (Arthur Chan).

Here’s a pithy quote that essentially summarizes the core insight from cognitive behavioral therapy: “Dress good to look good. Look good to feel good. Feel good to run fast” (Famous runner. Can’t remember his name).

Im at this event at San Diego State University. Off to a great start with a bunch of student comments! Will report back soon.

If you’re not keyed into the latest AI news, here’s the latest scoop. Meta, yes the we’ve-paid-millions-in-court-lately-for-having-predatory-practices-that-harmed-teens company launched Muse to great success.

AI makes higher Ed more important than ever because: 1. AI slop 2. Massive amounts of AI slop 3. Truly outrageous amounts of AI slop

Not sure these are accurate (in the sense that I didn’t double check if folks really were/are that age in those years), but I found them striking.

The name of the game in politics is “authenticity.” Why? Because politicians are generally reviled, thought of as fake, dishonest, untrustworthy, and self-interested. Any time anyone comes across as something other than that, it’s a win.

Higher Ed historians, researchers and colleagues in general, I have a question for you.

If you're an old, busy, parent gamer like me, pay exactly no attention to all the criticisms about the new Wolverine game. It's awesome.

Let’s bring some clarity to the whole thing about ‘there’s a 10% chance AI will destroy us, so pretty please slow it down.’

Very grateful and excited to have been selected as one of the inaugural NAFFLE fellows!

I guess the idea is that if you can’t earn someone’s vote, try to buy it?

In the Matrix scene where Agent Smith interrogates Morpheus, he identifies the moment the machines overpowered humans. youtu.be/JrBdYmStZJ4?...

Agent Smith Interrogation

YouTube video by Brian R

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“The history of the United States has, in many ways, been the history of the tension between equality and excellence. The history of the legal profession-and inevitably of the law schools-has similarly reflected the clash between elitism and democracy” (Stevens 1983:xiii).

Two very interesting ideas in the latest piece by Adam Tooze, in which he addresses the electoral victory of the extremist right-wing party in Germany:

Chartbook 473 Germany’s democratic earthquake: the AfD breakthrough in Sachsen-Anhalt and the question of an “alternative to the Alternative”.

Germany’s democracy has suffered an earthquake.

adamtooze.substack.com

Ya’ll: seems like POTUS is calling for a straight path to citizenship for all residents of North America. #ChangeOfHeart

Here goes one more time: if you think about the best cases of AI use, what you have is an expert/expertise on the other side of the AI assessing the quality of its output and engaging it in a a series of questions and prompts to help it (you,the human expert helping the AI) arrive at the best output

This is a master class in leadership and negotiation: upset your counterparts and get absolutely nothing in exchange so that all you have left is the brute use of force and economic leverage. 🤔 #KidsWithPower

Ya’ll, take your creatine.

“While sticker prices have climbed, net prices have come down over the years because of an increase in student aid and competition for enrollment, said Judith Scott-Clayton, a professor of economics and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College.”

As more colleges surpass $100,000 price tag, here’s the true cost

Fifteen schools now charge six figures per year for the total cost of attendance; others are on the verge.

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