Data Philosopher, Quantitative Ethnographer, Learning Analytics-person, Learning Scientist. Also, dad, husband, sailor, musician, lover of twizzlers
UW Madison
Joined May 2013
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I’m @AIEDconf this week - happy to chat with anyone interested in applying.
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Are you sure you’re worried about AI for the right reasons?
Read this great interview with @ambakak in @TheAtlantic
Rather than worry about cheating we should be teaching students how to use AI safely — and how to demand good AI regulation
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I’ll say it again. The @QE_soc sandbox sessions are a great space for community building. I’ll be sharing a few things I practice as a research manager of QE projects at @ElsevierConnect and I am looking to learn a lot from the attendees! Join us and we will think together.
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Sigh. One more example of why we can’t have anything nice straitstimes.com/asia/east-a…
Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.
- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
“At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.”– Chuang Tzu
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All of which is just to say that:
A. You can't organize your data (or do much of anything else with it) without reading and understanding it first
B. You learn a lot from teaching
C. Zhang's Rule is a good way of thinking about why segmentation has to be emic
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After a bunch of back and forth, Jason said at one point (and I am paraphrasing a bit):
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ALT Quote that says: Ah, so what we have looking at the data is a kind of "God's eye" view, but when we're segmenting, we're trying to figure out what the people in the data can see rather than what we can see.
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Why I Teach, or
A Primer on #QE Segmentation from a First-Year College Student
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David Williamson Shaffer retweeted
For those of you wondering about the impact of o̸̶̥̣̊̇ů̸̶̥̣̇r̸̶̥̣̊̇ ̸̶̥̣̊̇n̸̶̥̣̊̇e̸̶̥̣̊̇ẘ̸̶̥̣̇ ̸̶̥̣̊̇Ḁ̸̶̣̊̇I̸̶̥̣̊̇ ̸̶̥̣̊̇o̸̶̥̣̊̇v̸̶̥̣̊̇e̸̶̥̣̊̇r̸̶̥̣̊̇l̸̶̥̣̊̇o̸̶̥̣̊̇r̸̶̥̣̊̇d̸̶̥̣̊̇s̸̶̥̣̊̇ ChatGPT on education...
newsweek.com/if-chatgpt-can-…
Because of course it is…
'Prompt Engineering' is One of the Hottest Jobs in AI businessinsider.com/prompt-e…
Why I Teach, or
A Primer on #QE Segmentation from a First-Year College Student
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My claim about what lines are "connected" in the data has to come from an emic perspective -- that is, from **what a person in the data would see and how they would see it**.
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