It's that time of year when we all have to design our courses for fall. Want a radical design that resists AI slop, but not ready for something as radical as ungrading? Try Gamified Grading, where you treat your students like adults and give them agency to choose how to show mastery of the SLOs!

Dr. Kurtis Hanlon@kurtishanlon.bsky.social · 2w ago

IT'S OUT! My paper on gamifying the classroom is out and open access. And it's not just about using Kahoot quizzes in class; I examine how to utilize agency to actually turn the course into a game, not just a traditionally graded course that looks like a game. READ IT! doi.org/10.33823/pht...

Do I love Showa Era anime because I was born at the tail end of it? This just lights up my brain in a way that nothing post 2000 really can, ya know?

🌸Anime Themes🌸@animethemes.bsky.social · 4d ago

Anime: Urusei Yatsura Style: Opening Track: Pajama Jama da! Artist: Kanako Narikiyo Year: 1981 Studio: Pierrot/Studio Deen #Anime #AnimeSky #AnimeThemes #AnimeOpening #AnimeOpenings #AnimeOP #UruseiYatsura #Lum

The most consequential change I’ve experienced in moving from one university to another is that the library at my new place has a large physical collection and, for now at least, a budget for purchasing books. And the biggest effect of this change has been on my teaching, not my research.

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I fundamentally believe that higher ed reform needs to begin by protecting the mission and labor of libraries

So where are the loud parents' rights groups when it comes to opting your child out of AI in the classroom? I have to imagine there's a non-zero population of parents that would say "no, I don't want you to teach my child with a machine that turns their brain to mush."

Again, these technologies keep enthralling a certain type of man because they prop up the myth of the individual genius. They are, at their core, technologies designed to dissolve the human bonds between us and make us reliant on their subscription model over the community around us.

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7d ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

If you see this quote the energy you bring to bluesky

Dr Holly Nielsen@hollynielsen.bsky.social · 7d ago

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to bluesky

Again, these technologies keep enthralling a certain type of man because they prop up the myth of the individual genius. They are, at their core, technologies designed to dissolve the human bonds between us and make us reliant on their subscription model over the community around us.

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7d ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

SECRET INFORMATION STRIKES AGAIN! Every time I deal with Czech immigration, there's always one piece of secret information that's not on the website. My spouse just dropped off her application, and nowhere on the Ministry of the Interior website says that the marriage certificate needs an apostille.

It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.

People who've never been to Japan: JAPAN IS LIVING IN 2050 Japanese vending machines: Sorry, I don't take any currency issued post-Showa

1 like = 1 completely dull, mundane fact about me

Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian@riversidewings.bsky.social · last wk.

1 like = 1 completely dull, mundane fact about me

Lizzy, when I say no to her buying a little treat.

RealAmanda 🍁@realamandalive.com · last wk.

ACAB includes the fun police

This is, I would say, the bulk of "writing" for me. Jogging thoughts, shower thoughts, thoughts as I reward myself with a brainless game after writing a paragraph. Don't discount that part of the process.

Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · last wk.

*Bonus*: always remind yourself that thinking is part of writing. Actual typing of text is just a sliver of writing. So, shower thoughts, walking thoughts, random thoughts in the day about your project *is* writing. Text yourself those thoughts (or get a dictation app)

So, I'm at an anime con this weekend that Lizzy and I were planning to attend together, but then she had her visa trouble and had to boot scoot back to the US. But now I'm realizing that my number one activity at anime cons is following her around. What do I do with myself when it's just me?

Movies taught us that AI would destroy our culture with bombs. The failson techbros brought us a version that will simply make our human culture die via repetitive cloning.

Nick Kapur@nickkapur.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When Japanese scientists re-cloned mice for 58 generations, everything seemed fine for a long time, but then the mice started dying for no discernible reason. Repetition breeds decline, in nature as well as culture.

The moment someone uses AI in ANY capacity, all their work is circumspect.

Sylvain Neuvel@neuvel.net · last wk.

"I only plagiarize during research" doesn't sound as cool as some people think it does...

It's that time of year when we all have to design our courses for fall. Want a radical design that resists AI slop, but not ready for something as radical as ungrading? Try Gamified Grading, where you treat your students like adults and give them agency to choose how to show mastery of the SLOs!

Dr. Kurtis Hanlon@kurtishanlon.bsky.social · 2w ago

IT'S OUT! My paper on gamifying the classroom is out and open access. And it's not just about using Kahoot quizzes in class; I examine how to utilize agency to actually turn the course into a game, not just a traditionally graded course that looks like a game. READ IT! doi.org/10.33823/pht...

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

Are you gearing up for fall? Thinking about classrooms that are welcoming, just, and kind? Check out -A Pedagogy of Kindness- for ideas about how to be kind to yourself, and how to thread kindness through your syllabus, assignments, and into your classroom. www.oupress.com/978080619385...

A Pedagogy of Kindness - University of Oklahoma Press

Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, highe...

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Part of why LLMs will always give wrong information is because they do not *know* anything. They only put out a highly probable string of words, so they will always be susceptible to probability. So it will probably write 2+2=4, but there will never be a non-zero chance of spitting out 2+2=5.

If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.

Uncle Fuzzzy 🦆@unclefuzzzy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Funny, that’s what we thought about pocket calculators in 1974

The whole issue is great, and it opens with my paper on gamification in course design. Not in lesson design, but the whole course. Give it a read, because you can take my method for giving students agency over their assessment and adapt it for basically any course anywhere. Andragogy, baby!

H-Net@h-net-humanities.bsky.social · 2w ago

What does the future of the classroom look like with the rise of A.I.? 🏫 @h-net-journals.bsky.social's newest volume of the Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference discusses questions like this and more. networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #ai #education #teaching #edusky #academia

Bowdoin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Chinese language, literature, and culture. Deadline is October 1. Open area of specialization, 2-2 load, including one or two courses in Chinese each year. Must have native or near-native fluency in Mandarin and training in Chinese language pedagogy.

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

Bowdoin College’s Asian Studies Program invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment in Chinese language, literature and culture at the Assistant Professor level, beginning Ju...

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IT'S OUT! My paper on gamifying the classroom is out and open access. And it's not just about using Kahoot quizzes in class; I examine how to utilize agency to actually turn the course into a game, not just a traditionally graded course that looks like a game. READ IT! doi.org/10.33823/pht...

IT'S OUT! My paper on gamifying the classroom is out and open access. And it's not just about using Kahoot quizzes in class; I examine how to utilize agency to actually turn the course into a game, not just a traditionally graded course that looks like a game. READ IT! doi.org/10.33823/pht...

I find myself frequently recalling the end of "Work of Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction," where he lays out 100 years ago that leftists politicize art and fascists aestheticize politics, because life keeps throwing us things like the Obama hope poster vs a Trump rally. Still applies.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

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If I see a genAI slop thumbnail for your YouTube video, I won’t watch it. If I see a genAI slop picture or text in your blogpost, I won’t read it. If I see a vibe coded game, I won’t play it. I like human created stuff. Imperfections are good. They are personal. They are art.