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Dr. Lora Taub retweeted
BREAKING:
@aaup_penn’s response to @Penn admin’s threat to shut down peaceful protests.
“Do not escalate the situation. Do not violate the rights of students & faculty. Remember that the actions you choose to take today will be your legacy.”
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Dr. Lora Taub retweeted
What if universities responded to AI hype with confidence in their core mission rather than FOMO?
Today in the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter:
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“Automated scoring machine.”
Automating assessment is a sure sign the measure of learning is inequitable by design.
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What does AI actually promise to contribute to higher ed?
It is the latest Silicon Valley enterprise to extract labor from students, faculty & staff and monetize their data.
Handing over students’ data to tech billionaires is antithetical to my responsibilities as a professor.
Whatever good AI can do in/for higher ed (and outside of predatory business models, no one has explained how higher ed will benefit), will be offset by the harms it will do.
Those harms will be especially felt by students.
New work by @lucipangrazio on some of the harms of education data: link.springer.com/article/10…
On campus and in higher ed press, we hear talk of AI as the inevitable reality of teaching and learning in the digital age.
Tech inevitablism eschews the critical, historical thinking and imagination that the liberal arts purports to cultivate.
These systems are
not designed for any of the practices and values we lift up as central to teaching and learning in a democratic society.
What / who is higher education for?
“This is not safe for students.” - Chris Gilliard
#resistedtech
#surveillancetech
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Don’t make students unconsenting participants in AI experiments.
#resistedtech
#resistsurveillancetech
#unethicaledtech
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“The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.” Herb Schiller, 2000.
Dr. Lora Taub retweeted
Capitalism’s proponents often defend it by pointing to the virtues of markets. But capitalism isn’t defined by the presence of markets — it’s defined by capitalists’ domination of workers.
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Dr. Lora Taub retweeted
Harvard's new advisory group on antisemitism elevates political concerns over academic integrity, writes editor-at-large @PeterBeinart. jewishcurrents.org/harvard-i…
Dr. Lora Taub retweeted
"Humanisation of higher education: Re-imagining the university together with students" by Patric Wallin. Read now from the latest #OpenAccess issue of Learning and Teaching: bit.ly/43rdDfv
I’m dusting off a mastadon account opened years ago and happy some here have already found me there. Also spinning wheels (pottery wheels) here at ig: @lorataubstdio
Visioning Just Futures! Looking forward to a conference that promises “a different kind of ed tech.”
🤖NEW BLOG🤖 Conference Preview - We wanted a different type of ed tech conference. Thanks to a thoughtful and smart group of educators turning that dream into reality. Check out the sessions and register today! civicsoftechnology.org/blog/…
ALT Text reads: Civics of Technology 1st Annual Virtual Conference, Visioning Just Futures, 11-2 pm EST, August 4th-5th, 20222. Drs. Ruha Benjamin and Sepehr Vakil to keynote. Graphic shows photos of each keynote speaker featured on the monitors of desktop computers from the late 1990s.
My colleague makes the best memes. #annotation 😉
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“OER exists at the intersection of multiple innovations,”reminds @ProfJasmine. And, keep student voices and experiences at the center.