ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

In this two part toot on procrastination, as a fellow procratanator I want to help everyone by listing the 4 ways to help you stop procrastinating....

8 Ways to Use QR Codes in Higher Education Classrooms
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2022/8/8-ways-to-use-qr-codes-in-higher-education-classrooms

#edtech #highered

@ZingerLearns @edutooters Yup. That is a good way to put it - it is another (potential) tool in the toolbox.

And, the reality is, ChatGPT exists and will exist when students leave engineering school. No sense in fighting it.

Frankly, and I am seeing positive signs of this, the ideas of embracing creative, real-world (non-textbook) engineering education is increasing in many institutions by necessity.

Embracing more sophisticated tools is an integral part of that!

@ZingerLearns @edutooters
If you take the slide rule, the abacus, and the electronic calculator, you don't need an engineering degree to know which will work underwater with a flat battery.

I haven't tried it but I wouldn't be surprised if #ChatGPT gave you some longwinded explanation about why the slide rule needs batteries and the fish would eat the abacus.

It's almost useless for facts and openai openly admits it.

@grimmiges @ZingerLearns @TEG @anne_kreft @jocelyn_etienne @academicchatter

Again: a sensible STATE wants to have good researchers, just as it wants to have good MDs and engineers. That is why a sensible STATE pays students to sustain themselves while they TRAIN to become researchers. Just as a company that needs skilled employees MAY hire and pay trainees while they learn the needed skills. >>

@ZingerLearns absolutely. These critical literacy skills are going to be so heightened in importance now. Lots of work for us in education!

@ZingerLearns @edutooters At least from what I have seen so far from #ChatGPT... educators in #engineering schools need not worry about cheating and actual student education outcomes.

It is exceedingly brittle against anything more than extremely simple logical problems - providing non-sensical answers for the rest.

But more than that, computer-based engineering tools have substantially increased in sophistication for decades now anyways.

@ZingerLearns @edutooters we educators are predictable.

@ZingerLearns @TEG @grimmiges @anne_kreft @jocelyn_etienne @academicchatter

I did not mean that classical music is better than other types. Just that if that is what one wants to be, one must invest an insane amount of work AND get the guidance of a good teacher. Same for world class athletes, glass blowers, astronauts...

New from me at CJR: "Is Twitter dying? And what would that mean for journalism?" https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/twitter_musk_dying_journalism.php

Chinese New Year in Panama!

The Chinese, West Indian and North American populations first established themselves here about the same time, with the California Gold Rush, the defeat of China's Taiping Rebellion and the construction of the Panama Railroad. The chinos, gringos and afroantillanos are all parts of Panama's social fabric.

https://www.telemetro.com/nacionales/anuncian-calendario-actividades-celebracion-del-ano-nuevo-chino-panama-n5830064

Isn't it a little shitty that a US President puts out an important message about tech ethics and it is behind a paywall?

Creating a student's sense of belonging is critical. It spans through academic and pastoral care as belonging touches so many areas of life. #shift2023 @academicchatter #highered

We created a separate YouTube channel, HRP Clips, for shorter excerpts & podcast highlights that don't fit on our main channel. If you're looking for that type of content to use for your own planning & PD, we've got nearly 90 clips here so far! #edchat

https://youtu.be/J85q0AMmX_I

@DesrochersLab @academicchatter @neuroscience
For me, it really works best when I can find a concrete purpose for the knowledge acquisition ... like writing things that are even broader than my immediate research domain (eg perspectives; books).

Honest question for folks - how do you find/make time to read papers?

I mean for papers that you just would like to read (i.e. not for grants, writing your own papers, reviews, etc.)

@academicchatter @neuroscience

1. For years, @walgreens@twitter.com and other major retailers have been sounding the alarm about an alleged spike in shoplifting, describing it as an existential threat to their business.

The claims generated a MEDIA FRENZY

Now, Walgreens is quietly backtracking

https://popular.info/p/how-walgreens-manufactured-a-media

SHAMEFUL! New House rules would enable Scott Perry, who is being investigated by the FBI, to investigate the investigators investigating him.

The #GOP is not “draining the swamp.” It is filling the swamp to an extent never seen before.

An interesting read: https://m-cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/267674-ais-jurassic-park-moment/fulltext