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Robin DeRosa

JOB POSTING: Director of Faculty Development at Georgia State University higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?J

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@JensHannemann @highered definitely a systemic issue!

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Jens Hannemann

@ZingerLearns @highered Unfortunately, that's part of the tenure track system. Your students have to be productive within the current grant framework or you lose funding. The system has little room for exploration. At least when it comes to #STEM. One of the few agencies that is more open to risk taking is actually #DARPA.

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@highered

Faculty: we don't want to create clones of us

Also faculty: if you want to study anything that isn't exactly what I do or part of my project you are on your own.

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Dan Gillmor

Instead of begging a sociopath CEO to please, please, please let them keep using his increasingly terrible website for research and other activities, these orgs and people should be organizing to move what they do to the open web. independenttechresearch.org/le

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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

"We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it." Excellent piece by @danmcquillan@twitter.com:

danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html

I suggest you read the whole thing, but some pull quotes:

"ChatGPT is a part of a reality distortion field that obscures the underlying extractivism and diverts us into asking the wrong questions and worrying about the wrong things."

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ABrockwell

@ZingerLearns @edutooters Totally agree. Although I can see a role for positive fluffy feedback when someone needs their confidence built up, even in that case I think it still needs to shift to more critical feedback over time.

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@radehi any critique of work. Lots of it to be had in teaching and academia.

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@aebrockwell @edutooters for sure. Critical doesn't mean all "needs improvement" there should absolutely be acknowledging of what is good, with evidence.

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@jeffmoore @ohiofi I share that concern, especially in places like Florida, Texas, and Arizona, where there would be a distinct possibility of my ending up fired or in jail as a teacher educator.

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Jeff Moore

@ZingerLearns @ohiofi I am more scared for our profession than I have ever been.

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Critical Cupcake

Teachers in 1930s Germany hid books to avoid being arrested.

Teachers in republican Florida are hiding books to avoid being arrested.

Any questions?

-- Jeff Tiedrich

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Chris Trottier

My problem with Twitter isn't that a particular billionaire owns it.

It's that a billionaire can own Twitter.

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@aristeon
How and why is Facebook able to continue to operate with almost total impunity as it functions as a global arm for disinformation and destruction of democracy?

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Aris Teon

Taiwan's national security authorities have uncovered a cognitive cyberwarfare campaign conducted by the Chinese government.

825 Facebook accounts run by China’s cyberarmy posted large numbers of comments attacking Taiwan's government on President Tsai Ing-wen’s and former premier Su Tseng-chang's Facebook pages

#China #Taiwan #propagada #disinformation

schedium.net/2023/02/chinese-g

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@edutooters
This may not be a popular opinion, and I ground it in critical love, but I don't see the benefit of providing that soft, uncritical fluffy feedback, especially for people we care about.
I have been in a few groups and engaged in some writing and revising lately where people effectively lied and withheld because they didn't want to be critical, and it was absolutely to the detriment of the person receiving the feedback.
We have to care enough to share valid and important critiques to help and move work forward.

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@ohiofi this effort to bring in veterans was never intended to work in actually filling openings and shortages. It's intended to demonstrate the public school's system (which they are undermining and working hard to destroy) is not functional or sustainable, and needs to be replaced by a privatized system that will
1) underwrite the private education of the wealthy who send their kids to private school.
2) destroy what is a public good, a foundation of democracy.

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Justin Riley

“Since Florida opened teaching roles to veterans without a bachelor’s degree last August, the initiative has only netted the state 11 new teachers, according to the state’s education department, raising the question of whether lowering standards is an effective solution to the shortages.”

wgal.com/article/teachers-were

@edutooters #education #teaching

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Maha Bali مها بالي

"What’s up to us is whether we think it matters enough to make ChatGPT a moral problem for us."
@kate

musicfordeckchairs.com/blog/20

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Tixie Salander 💕

Dude is an universal word until you ask a heterosexual guy how many dudes he fucked

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