Miriam Reynoldson
@miriamreynoldson.bsky.social
Learning designer, PhD candidate, writer, gardener, artist, part-time militant environmentalist. Bad at small talk, regular exercise, and maintaining my patience. I am tired of talking about GenAI. Longer rambles @ https://themindfile.substack.com
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Tending my own garden
I’d like to share a silly secret of mine today. I’m doing all this (eschewing full time work, enrolled in an extended academic project with social cred) because it gives me an excuse to garden a whole...
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Lukewarm take: "friendly reminders" are passive aggressive
Assessment in the AI age. Is it even their work? Do they even care? What are we to do? USyd offers a two-lane approach: secure or open conditions. This doesn't sit well with me. Here's my attempt to explain why. #assessment #AIineducation #evaluativejudgement
The two-lane approach has us veering further off track
In the mad scramble to lock down assessment security and devalue the role of developmental assessment, have we lost the ability to trust students altogether?
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
This is the strategy to follow right now. Keep doing the thing, but as a consultant. The world needs you.
Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help
my sweet and gentle Jesus. hard no, you salivating deathgrift morons
Lauren McKenzie@themckenziest.gay · 2y agoFuck this shit
More dumb AI shit no one asked for while the world burns and people forget how to relate to each other 🙄
the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 2y agoMeta's great new idea, now that Facebook and Instagram are infected with AI slop, is to also let AI-generated characters made by users appear as actual accounts on the platforms. The last stage of "social" media is millions of bots giving each other thumbs-up reacts.
Sharing a writeup of the thinking informing my #ThirdSpace Symposium presentation. If you dwel in the university's third space, what are your expressions of this in-between imaginary. @eam0.bsky.social @davecormier.bsky.social @joanncattlin.bsky.social? themindfile.substack.com/p/third-spac...
Third space topologies: A speculative renovation of university role architecture
A recap (or perhaps a wishful revision) of the presentation I gave at the Third Space Symposium, Melbourne 2024
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Why is it not ok to say no to GenAI? Yeah, I know they're slipping it into our drinks, so a hardline policy of "none for me thanks" is not going to result in an AI-free diet. But last time I checked, when someone ignored your choice not to consent, that didn't make your choice irrelevant.
Be there! Hosted at the Unimelb campus on Sunday 1 Dec.
Aster Cosmos@liberatelearning.bsky.social · 2y ago#thirdspacesymposium just over a week away where @miriamreynoldson.bsky.social and I present on #intersectional #allyship and how #learningdesign in #highereducation is a powerful influencer on others and way to advocate for greater #equity teledvisors.net/about-the-sy...
What if he named it X and then we dumped him
Best of Dying Twitter@bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · 2y ago
Are you a university #thirdspacer? If it were a physical space, what would the "third space" actually look like? Share your thoughts on the Third Space Slowposium collaborative mural here miro.com/app/board/uX... @teledvisors.bsky.social
A Speculative Third Space Renovation
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Look today I feel like "X" was pretty apposite
Best of Dying Twitter@bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is a magnificent rebuttal of OpenAI's recent sales pitch to students. Share it abundantly with yours. www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...
A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT
Site web d’Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.
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Latest grump: persistent elitist framings of the university. themindfile.substack.com/p/special
Special
"If everyone's special, that means no one is." Discuss.
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