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Grading less is about stopping practices that do harm. It isn’t necessarily about adding new practices.

The harder part of ungrading is the way it asks us to question the assumptions we make about school, learning, motivation, etc. The harder part of grading less is the way it pushes against conventions that feel (but usually aren’t) immovable.

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There was an attempted coup in the US two years ago, people died, and we still have had no accountability for the events of that day.........🫠🫠🫠🥴🥴🥴

Here's a recipe:
"Exciting technology" + weak privacy protections + virtually no sources of revenue + capitalism = ChatGPT/OpenAI IPO with a $29,000,000,000 valuation.
What could go wrong?

wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-creat

1. Two years ago today, popular.info began its reporting on corporate tax donors to the members of Congress voting to overturn the 2020 election.

Over the course of a few days, hundreds of companies pledged to suspend their giving

What's happened since?

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Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.

1. Two years ago today, popular.info began its reporting on corporate PAC donors to the members of Congress voting to overturn the 2020 election.

Over the course of a few days, hundreds of companies pledged to suspend their giving

What's happened since?

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@msnbc @CNNNetwork As the House adjourns after day 3 of the #speakerofthehouse sh*tshow, please spare the American people a pointless interview with any of these 20+ members of the #gop because you are only incentivizing them. Instead, you should ask Don Bacon (R-NE) and the #gop ”moderates” why they are letting their 20+ colleagues hold the chamber hostage and why they haven’t approached the #Democrats about a deal. Ask them why they won’t create their own leverage.

Banning books is always an early step on the path to fascism.

If you are a member of the far right, you can simply tag @elonmusk@twitter.com with any complaint & he will look into it right away.

Accounts are banned or restored. Rules are changed.

If you ascribe to any other political ideology, you are on your own.

This Twitter in 2023.

Andy Ngo and Elon Musk apparently confirm that Musk personally suspended my Twitter account at Ngo's request, following Ngo's multiple failed attempts to silence my reporting on Ngo's ties to violent right-wing terrorist groups.

I call on Musk to release all his communications with Andy Ngo. Let's bring some transparency to Twitter. twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1

Andy Ngo has been trying desperately to silence my reporting on his record of lies and thuggish legal threats against his critics.

In Sept 2021, Andy Ngo's lawyers threatened me with legal action for exposing his lies. @Popehat replied to their frivolous and baseless legal threats on my behalf in the now famous "oily poutine" letter. techdirt.com/2021/10/01/ken-po

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@Autumm thanks for pushing back on the carceral pedagogy behind much of the discussion and for highlighting privacy issues

@ZingerLearns well, on your last point, the AI is very responsive to it, more input the better the output, just freeform it in a stream of consciousness . But overall what you're seeing is more the limit to the number of tokens (ie $) spent on each output. So for example i use other tools that produce better results. I'm really honored you took the time to thoughtfully consider and work through the prompts provided, you seem to have your finger on the pulse of these mores , so hopefully you'll keep being a bellweather or even a lighthouse to the whole community of educators 🚀

@tonic @edutooters
Thanks for sharing these. I messed around a bit with it, and in many ways it affirmed what some have been saying. There are some ways in which the AI can be helpful, and others that it's not useful.
I asked it to explain evolution to me, and then design a lesson on evolution.
The explanation was good enough to serve as a basis for an explanatory model I might have for a lesson plan (a very small component of the lesson), that would require a fair bit of editing on my part, but definitely a time saver.
For the lesson plan, it generated something that was absolutely awful, used traditional pedagogy and was entirely too short. I suspect I could have added some criteria like, "Evolution for 5th graders who are predominantly Latinx living in Southern California" but I doubt it would do much better. My lessons and those I expect my students to write should be culturally responsive and cognitively demanding to the specific population I am teaching. This requires knowing students, their interests, how they engage and what motivates them etc, which the AI is not responsive to.

New #OER: Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students, from Dr. Patricia Lynne of Framingham State, with support from Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens (ROTEL)

rotel.pressbooks.pub/readwrite

@ZingerLearns @edutooters here's some teaching aids i have been experimenting with :
1. an admissions evaluator : cookup.ai/a/admission-whnqib7b
2. GPT-checker proof essay generator cookup.ai/a/easy-essay-detecto
3. Mind Mapper : cookup.ai/a/mindmap-create-str
4. Generate a Preprint : cookup.ai/a/pre-print-latex-vy
5. Make a table : cookup.ai/a/pdf-table-converte
6. Musical Education : cookup.ai/a/musical-exercise-t
7. PE : cookup.ai/a/k-12-physical-acti
8. Lesson Plan generator
9. Probem Solver : cookup.ai/a/problem-solver-lrs
10. WorkSheet Generator : cookup.ai/a/quiz-workbook-for-

Hope this fits in the discussion with concrete and testable examples for folks , feedback welcome :-)

In the future i'm very sure that there will be a company with "turnkey" entire curriculum textbook / workbook generators that will cost anywhere from 600 to 4000 euros per output

i'm really excited about this next entry in our learning series... we have a top-notch panel!

it should be great for folks who want to see the different ways investigators are incorporating video into @CADREK12@twitter.com
research

twitter.com/CADREK12/status/16

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