I feel like the only time I post here is to say I'm not really using it much. Find me on BlueSky, Threads, and Linkedin.

Threads http://threads.net/@noah.arney
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I didn't end up using Mastodon as much as I thought I would, but I'm on Threads as @noah.arney. https://www.threads.net/@noah.arney

Or you could wait till Threads joins the fediverse in a few months.

Calling all Co-operative Education, Career Education, and Experiential Learning Professionals! TRU has just released our brand-new virtual textbook, titled "From University to Career: Creating a Successful Transition."

This interactive textbook is an open education resource, designed to encourage you to adapt, customize, and enhance it for your own students. You can access the textbook directly at https://universitytocareer.pressbooks.tru.ca

"The resume and cover letter are distinct genres of business writing. Just like any other genre, there are specific conventions to be followed, certain conventions that are optional but common, and changes that evolve over time."

I'm super excited that this is published now! I had the great privilege of writing the chapter on Application Documents. Being me, I got to discuss them in my favourite way, through rhetoric. Persuasive writing is persuasive writing, regardless of the genre. I hope you like it!

https://universitytocareer.pressbooks.tru.ca/chapter/application-documents-2/

#careerdevelopment #resume #writing

@mmlarthur @deandad sounds plausible. Especially as long as most rankings are primarily direct and indirect measures of reputation rather than quality.

@deandad In fact, if the faculty member who put the fake answers out into the world considered their actions through the lens of ethics in human research I think they would also have to conclude that it doesn't meet the ethical bar for research, so why would it be ethical for a classroom.

@deandad Regarding your question though, it is 100% unethical for someone who is supposed to help others learn about truth or how to determine truth to purposefully spread falsehoods.

My example is: If you were teaching foraging you would be unethical to put out poisoned food into the forest, even if it was a teaching exercise to guide students to the true food, because those in the forest who are unconnected to you may still eat the poisoned food, and thus you would harm the ecosystem.

@deandad I love this follow up. " I don’t have an easy answer for maintaining the economies of scale of arena-size classes while preventing cheating."

As one of the people who brought up the scale issue, thank you for trying to think of a solution. I'm pretty sure this is a case where CCs and other teaching focused institutions will do better because they aren't based on scale and TA armies.

It means CCs will be less likely to use automated-punitive measures and anti-neurodivergent practices.

@LibraryBen I'm glad I'm not the only one at a conference in a different time zone.

@deandad CCs, teaching focused, and small/mid-sized PSIs will be able to adapt to this better with their already smaller class sizes, but once you're over 40 students you really can't do oral exams, despite that they were the core of post-secondary for much longer than written exams have been. Also more frequent assessment is easier when you're not marking 300 per section.

But that doesn't scale, so what do large research PSIs do? Their whole model is about scale.

A great blog post from @deandad
TL:DR
"The strategy likeliest to work, I think, is to restructure assignments and grading. That can entail a good bit of work, and in some cases, may require institution-level course redesigns. (Going with oral exams, for instance, would put limits on class sizes.) But as long as students are evaluated on few, high-stakes tests, the incentive to cheat will be powerful."

What will administrators choose when the the solutions are more costly than "more ed tech"?

@petersuber I'm sure the publishers will just begin creating state specific textbook editions, which is the easiest way out for them. Especially if any of them are digital texts.

Heartbreaking to see this happen.

Kudos to #California.

What is your state doing to identify and avoid the #textbooks revised to ingratiate #Florida extremists?

My friend said that Yoshua Bengio is on the New York Times talking about how "AI systems" will be "fully independent" in a decade and such. I don't know what to say at this point. Is it the influence of the #TESCREAL bundle that is in full force at this point? The arrogance among "AI" people who want to feel like they're working on a literal god? Do they ever get called out when in 10 years it doesn't happen? Like how Hinton said radiologists will be gone by 5 years (and that was 5 years ago)?

And section 6.2

“Thus the risk is that people disseminate text generated by LMs, meaning more text in the world that reinforces and propagates stereotypes and problematic associations,
both to humans who encounter the text and to future LMs trained
on training sets that ingested the previous generation LM’s output."

Followup story in the New York Times.

Paywall-free link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/books/scholastic-book-racism-maggie-tokuda-hall.html?unlocked_article_code=w4PV3LQym0qMUY2lHeBazodCNiTibt3ULaOD_htXKupcNITCNN_q9wIkXyxk_rJxHZUUcXO2JxG7QNy1oK5Fj0tTRwWQqkxX3vc_qg92z1xgpQXSoYjtI7m4g04ajrHFGmAeJAcJrqkMHn65OcjA1Mni3AOVKirphfk63YLAtA6Nk9QrTfej8I4xiZJm2aIFAuz34bjX8T_T04hczuKVNidRJqf4BdY8yzYJtGbvD819BuQWiOpvaJ995cgsZLS7NaGuTX_1V3ghCI17BeV7PMufPrBi9wOTmg-_f6rG7NArnTjI6TmuzI3MX9ThlOPKiGdKMEWkxpa6w15JMSFUVaZgnCiYmC6pshTbiiDGO9oC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

1/2 of the time police kill someone are in situations without the victims having a weapon or being involved in a violent crime. Clearly the training system doesn't work and the members are either untreated for PTSD or are being encouraged to be violent.

Between a rising rate of police killing unarmed people and a rising rate of police killing themselves, this is a massive problem that should not be swept under the rug.

The #1 cause of death for police in the US last year was COVID, #2 was suicide, #3 was non-firearm line of duty deaths, and #4 was firearm deaths in the line of duty.

Policing as a profession has the third highest suicide rate.

We need to change how we do policing, for everyone's sake.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina-cop-wife-found-dead-murder-suicide/story?id=99060126

It seems like FIRE is choosing whose free speech they support and whose they don't.