📢📢📢 ANNOUNCING NEW CAI RUNNING SERIES: Gen AI & TEACHING WRITING IN HIGHER ED. Complete CFP criticalai.org/2024/04/16/cai… +

Outstanding, forensic report on the relations between universities, the edtech industry and investors, with a clear set of 11 key takeaways that should be the basis of institutional and policy discussions about edtech in HE going forward

New report on digitalisation and datafication of UK universities and the #EdTech industry with findings from the Universities and Unicorns project. It’s aimed at HE and EdTech stakeholders and policymakers. With Morten Hansen, Sam Sellar and Kean Birch. t.ly/S_mrL

A critical AI literacy approach (h/t Maha Bali, PhD مها بالي 🌵🇵🇸) adds friction to systems intended to be frictionless. This, to me, is a strength of humanities education, to '[turn] our attention to those seams we are seduced into not seeing.' (Michele Elam, from read.dukeupress.edu/american-liter… )

Black Sunday, 4-14-1935. Listening to Woody Guthrie’s “The Great Dust Storm,” thinking about data centers.

To do science we need reliability, to know exactly what the computer is doing, but GenAI is antithetical to this, it's inscrutability veiled in a cloud of hype. I see real danger to the entire scientific endeavor when we blindly trust LLMs.

We have extended our deadline to April 19. KC Metro area humanities educators, please consider joining us! Selected participants will receive $1000 stipend.

dmsimon Looks interesting! I didn't track this before.

Wow, bills for privacy, copyrighted data summaries, and deepfake prevention all gaining steam.

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Dave Nelson Anna Mills, annamillsoer.bsky.social, she/her Frau Dr.Auntie Occident is here and on Mastodon Katie (Kathryn) Conrad Ugnė Litvinaitė Yes, it should be online in the next few days at generativedialogues.org

Today! Join us!

When talking about AI it’s really important to be on the lookout for deterministic framing that suggests “everyone is doing” or “all students are doing”—that kind of framing makes it seem much more ubiquitous than it really is, and in turn gives rise to a kind of fatalism.

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“You don’t ‘solve’ art.”

Frau Dr.Auntie Occident is here and on Mastodon will be sharing stories with AI teachers and Critics about Generative AI in Education, with Katie (Kathryn) Conrad Ugnė Litvinaitė Anna Mills, annamillsoer.bsky.social, she/her as co-panellists on the Generative Dialogues live podcast recording on 11.04! Hosts Helen Beetham 💙 @[email protected], @theplatformuni generativedialogues.org

Important details wrt the immaturity of AI training philosophy, OpenAI, data, rights. This stood out: 'The new policy was reportedly intentionally released on July 1st to take advantage of the distraction of the Independence Day holiday weekend.'
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Excited to join Anna Mills, annamillsoer.bsky.social, she/her Lance Eaton & more next year for this Institute! Click original post for details.

Today!