"AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. " artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Letter

Congrats W. Stephen McNeil !!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and KUDOS to my friend, colleague, mentor, and hero Celeste Leander for winning the West Coast Teaching Excellence Award! 🎉 Keep being amazing!! You're a source of genuine inspiration and wonder! academic.ubc.ca/academic-commu…

Our new paper on "Lessons from debiasing data for fair and accurate predictive modeling in education". #machinelearning models may greatly improve prediction fairness (66%) with only a small sacrifice (<1%) in prediction accuracy. #AI #learninganalytics sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Let's take a moment to appreciate those first two responders to scheduling polls, who do the work of collapsing like 100 possible options down to 2-3 options that the rest of us select between.

Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE

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Bad news: RWU lost a brilliant teacher and scholar in HM🦋 due to their own stupidity. Good news: You might be able to hire her! (You'd be VERY lucky.)

Alright, someone get me a Bluesky invite code 😪…

↕️ Sorting: an often overlooked, but absolutely crucial aspect of charts. Good sorting (and grouping) can make it so much easier for your audience! (1/11)

This is much needed ! Thanks for everyone maintaining this.

The UBCO community is saddened to learn of the sudden death of Devyn Gale, a School of Nursing student. Devyn, working as a B.C. wildland firefighter this summer, lost her life battling a wildfire near Revelstoke. For more, including resources: bit.ly/3OcIbgC

I made it in to Bluesky (thanks to Henry Ngo)! Will help any #altgrading Twitter friends migrate when I get invite codes 💪🏽

Super exciting to see this out! Simon Bates and I co-authored two chapters 😁! So much fun. I’m published in a book!!

Man, all we asked for was an edit button and got all this foolishness instead. 🤣🤣🤣

I have a few Bluesky invite codes available for folks in the #Altgrading sub community ! Let me know…

Great news for plain text interoperability: GitHub has added support for callouts to the GitHub-flavored Markdown using the same syntax Obsidian introduced in Obsidian v0.14 (March 2022)

✨Introducing our 2023-24 Contributors! Can't wait to learn with these educators! ✨🤩 Check out more: teachersgoinggradeless.com/23-24-contribu…

We’ve updated our terms of service (in section 10.4) to further confirm that we do not use audio, video, or chat customer content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent. blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-ser…