Dominik here with what maybe be a long tweet, but the nuance and POV that is so often missing from AI in edu conversations 👏🏻

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This whimsy is just nauseating in the context of how the Home Office treats actual flesh and blood human beings.

I know this is meant to be a cuddly story but for those Windrush victims I’ve been speaking to recently who are aging and worrying about dying without their status being sorted, this for them I’m sure will be a slap in the face

Universities: Why do our kids use AI to write their assignments 😭 😭 😭 don’t they know writing is important? Also Universities: What if we made writing instructors into a permanent underclass of peasants that we work to the bone for as little money as possible?

“English is important, but perfect English is not”: The disjuncture between the IELTS and language experiences from the perspectives of international students in Australia - Liu - International Journal of Applied Linguistics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ij…

This is such wonderful work! There’s increasingly fewer excuses for not being linguistically inclusive in academia, with the current state and rapid developments in language tech.

What is the present and future of academic writing in the age of Large Language Models? I put together some questions to guide our collective reflection. Comments, suggestions, criticisms welcome. 🔗👇

Guides like this only address using GenAI to generate content and ideas, but ignore ways of using it for language adjustment - which maintains human thought, creativity, ideas, has basically little to no risk of hallucination, bias and plagiarism, and enhances accessibility.

Lambert Schuwirth So sorry to hear this. What a horror story! As I said to the parliamentary inquiry (on Hansard!) if we rolled this out across Australian higher ed we would expect 60k false positives per semester.

🚀 What are the 5 trends shaping AI today? For my November writing project, I will publish a deep dive into every one of these each week leading up to the 2nd anniversary of ChatGPT: 1️⃣ Multimodality 2️⃣ Interfaces & UX 3️⃣ Long Context Windows 4️⃣ Small Local Models 5️⃣ Agents

All my posts on the 5 trends will appear on my newsletter AI in Academic Practice: linkedin.com/newsletters/ai….

It’s really difficult to overstate how many pedagogical problems that seem impossible to solve are actually just a function of classes being too big.

Downloaded my archive and deleted the app and I’ll just be on the 🔵 place from now on. Byyeee 👋🏻