Tag: social
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Learning should be effortful…
Learning is deeper and durable when it’s effortful. Learning that’s easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow. Peter Brown, et al. (2014). Make it stick: The Science of Successful Learning. See also: Learning is not fun.
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Non-academic prompts for generative AI
I’ve recently been a part of several conversations about AI-proof (or AI-resilient) assessments; these are the ones that apparently make it difficult to use AI in non-prescribed ways. I think this is misguided and will write something about it another time. These conversations have led me to consider what other types of prompts we might…
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Fixing algorithms isn’t going to fix society
I keep seeing articles reporting that AI is biased, and exhorting software developers and private companies to do more to ensure that algorithmic bias is stamped out. But I don’t see any of those people asking for human bias to be stamped out. Which is weird, because human bias is the ultimate cause of algorithmic…
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Facebook, friends and students
This is post is the first of what I hope will be several reflections on the softening boundaries between my social and professional lives, and how they influence each other. When I started teaching in the department about 3 years ago, I decided that I wouldn’t accept friend requests on Facebook from any of our…