#Learning

2025-05-20

@gerrymcgovern

This is consistent with most evidence I've seen on #AI and #learning.

Our primary jobs as educators is to help students learn to think critically and tackle difficult challenges. That's how we grow as students, and as people.

But students tend to use AI to avoid doing these hard, uncomfortable things, which has been termed by some as "cognitive laziness".

"Metacognitive Laziness': How AI Helps Students Offload Critical Thinking, Other Hard Work"

kqed.org/mindshift/65511/unive

Thomas Barriohomohortus
2025-05-20

Between the Megamachine and Autonomy: Why and How I Use AI

AI is never neutral: it can serve the megamachine, but also personal emancipation, understanding, and self-construction. Here’s a critical reflection on my journey—between the urgency to understand, the rediscovery of slowness, and the desire for autonomy. Thank you, @Tattered, and everyone questioning the use of AI, networks, and digital tools. Your critiques are vital—they keep us…

homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

Sumerian cuneiform of the daysumerian@archaeo.social
2025-05-20

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Reading: lil₂
Meaning: wind, air

#cuneiforms #sumerology #archeology #Mesopotamia #learning

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Reading: lil₂
Meaning: wind, air
2025-05-20

A few photos from my adventures in DIY mic building last night.

#diy #hobby #beginner #learning #audio #sound #microphones #havingfun

Photo of an incredibly old and janky soldering iron on a yellow cutting mat with various electronic components in the background.Close up photo of a microphone frame showing two capacitors and three wires soldered to the XLR pins.Photo of my build setup with all the components needed for the mic building last I am attempting. Wires. Mic capsule. Capsule saddle. Circuit boards. Mounting hardware. Mic body.
Frontend Dogmafrontenddogma@mas.to
2025-05-20

7 Things I Do Regularly as a Senior Frontend Developer, by @ndeyefatoudiop.bsky.social:

frontendjoy.com/p/7-habits-i-r

#career #learning #codereviews

celtgreeklatinceltgreeklatin_pr
2025-05-20

Drawing of the Circus of Nero (Pietro Santi Bartoli, 1699)

2025-05-20

🙌#call4reading

✍️Quantum unsupervised and supervised #learning on #superconducting processors #by Abhijat Sarma, Rupak Chatterjee, Kaitlin Gili, and Ting Yu

🔗doi.org/10.26421/QIC20.7-8-1 (#arXiv:1909.04226)

2025-05-20

Embarking upon my second DIY mic build tonight. Total novice. Taking everything slowly. Soldered the 22nF capacitors & wires to the XLR pins. That's enough for one evening. I'll get back to it tomorrow night.

#DIY #hobby #beginner #audio #microphone #learning

2025-05-20

Anime faces A to Z: 'E' is for Eucliwood Hellscythe!

Not as happy with this one honestly, it's not bad by any means, but as one of my first waifus, I don't feel like I did her justice. Oh well, I definitely learned a lot and that's the goal, so I guess mission accomplished :P

#Anime #KoreWaZombieDesuKa #ArtABCs #Study #Learning #ClipStudioPaint #FanArt #DigitalArt

Digital illustration of the character Eucliwood Hellscythe from the anime "Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka?"
Adrian SegarASegar
2025-05-19

I'm a strong proponent of learning with others. Here are two examples from physics and coding of the advantages of cooperative learning.

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

cooperative learning: the famous first example of a leptonic weak neutral current. Black and white Gargamelle bubble chamber photograph showing muon neutrino interacting with an electron.
Adrian SegarASegar
2025-05-19

A story about how, in 1975, I was trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner and what I learned from the experience.

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

Trapped in an elevator. An elevator at CERN: Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marc_buehler/ / CC BY-NC 2.0

Hi! It’s Monday so here I am :) Let’s back to digital art. This is evening city scape made in procreate. First version was not so glowing lol #procreate #art #digital #digitalart #learning #learingart #procreateart

Karsten Schmidttoxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-19

Upcoming seminar by @danmcquillan:

"Drawing on Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality', this talk will argue that an important role for the contemporary university is to resist AI. The university as a space for the pursuit of knowledge and the development of independent thought has long been undermined by neoliberal restructuring and the ambitions of the Ed Tech industry. So-called generative AI has added computational shock and awe to the assault on criticality, both inside and outside higher education, despite the gulf between the rhetoric and the actual capacities of its computational operations. Such is the synergy between AI's dissimulations and emerging political currents that AI will become embedded in all aspects of students' lives at university and afterwards, preempting and foreclosing diverse futures. It's vital to develop alternatives to AI's optimised nihilism and to sustain the joyful knowledge that nothing is inevitable and other worlds are still possible. The talk will ask what Illich has to teach us about an approach to technology that prioritises creativity and autonomy, how we can bolster academic inquiry through technical inquiry, workers' inquiry and struggle inquiry, and whether the future of higher education should enrol lecturers and students in a process of collective decomputing."

danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstract

#IvanIllich #Conviviality #Decomputing #Degrowth #Education #Creativity #Learning #University #AI #LLM

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