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British astronaut Tim Peake* recently wrote: “We stand on the brink of what will be the most adventurous and exciting decade yet in the history of space flight.” Peake was reflecting on risky and competitive first space flights to purposeful missions aimed at sustaining life beyond Earth. 
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“Nothing beats kindness… It sits quietly beyond all things.”
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I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.
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Practical, low-tech ways to support student engagement and faculty wellbeing in online classes—especially during stressful end-of-semester weeks.
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"There is no one way to think, hell, often there is no way to think at all as one grieves. How does one, how can one ever even think about the loss of a loved one – parent, child, lover, friend – before or after it occurs? So I appreciate too the heavy work that other writers have undertaken to try to express the inexpressible, to try to understand the unfathomable.
Here's where I pause for the refrain, the reminder: artificial intelligence "knows" nothing. It "knows" nothing because it "experiences" nothing.
Debate all you want about "reasoning" and "reasoning models." The provocative and disruptive ways of thinking lie elsewhere – in imagination, in curiosity, in hope, in unraveling... in how we grapple with love and loss."
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"'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This
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Explore how students are using generative AI beyond writing—to create visuals, design slides, enhance presentations, and communicate more effectively in business communication courses.
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Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech –
"She calls for something beyond empathy, something achingly missing from our harsh culture of dueling gotchas — a literature of tenderness:
Tenderness is the art of personifying, of sharing feelings, and thus endlessly discovering similarities. Creating stories means constantly bringing things to life, giving an existence to all the tiny pieces of the world that are represented by human experiences, the situations people have endured and their memories. Tenderness personalizes everything to which it relates, making it possible to give it a voice, to give it the space and the time to come into existence, and to be expressed."
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Narrow the aperture of your attention enough to take in any one thing fully, and it becomes a portal to everything. Anneal that attention enough so that you see whatever and whoever is before you f…
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"Even though most Americans live in urban areas, even though a third of Americans live in California, Texas, Florida, or New York, even though around 40% live on the coast (east or west), even though more than half are under age 40, the depiction of "average American" – particularly in an election year – is often an older middle-age white person who just happens to be sitting in a neighboring booth from the reporter, casually eating pancakes on a Wednesday morning but more than willing to chit-chat politics (and endorse Trump's policies)."
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"Young people in education are therefore subject to three distinct threats to their educational rights" from AI, Beetham argues: 1.So-called predictive AI is used to collect their data, to make unaccountable and discriminatory decisions about their futures, and to surveil and discipline their interactions with educational systems
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When AI first began colonizing language — which is still our best instrument for bridging the abyss between us, a container for thought and feeling that shapes the contents — I asked ch…
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I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the wh…
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One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with reasons for despair is a countercultural act of courage and resistance, choosing it not despite th…
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Learn how to transform your unique perspective and insights into valuable content that will help you develop thought leadership as a learning professional.
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"(...) But here's what I think: most people don't want "AI." Most people are exhausted by the onslaught of technology "upgrades" that have consistently made everything worse. Most people stopped being wowed by technology a decade ago because they don't have a stock portfolio or consulting gig that demands their ooohs and aaahs. Most people know "AI" is bad for their future – that it's something their bosses want in order to surveil, control, and probably fire them. (According to Bloomberg, tech companies are no longer bragging about the "hyperscaling" of their user-base; they're boasting about how few people are on their payrolls.) There's a reason that one of the big backers of Cuomo, alongside the Democratic establishment, was DoorDash incidentally: the future of work is piecemeal employment algorithmically organized."
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From
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"There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence (AI). When AI seems to make things up or distort reality — adding extra fingers to human hands, inventing nonexistent court cases, or generating surreal advertisements — we commonly describe them as AI hallucinations. But a metaphor of hallucination reinforces the misconception that AI is conscious; it implies that AI experiences reality and sometimes becomes delirious. We need a new way to talk about AI outputs when they don't match our expectations for realism or facticity. For this paper, we analyzed the implications of more than 80 alternative terms suggested by scholars, educators, and commentators. Ultimately, we chose a more fitting term: AI mirage. Just as a desert mirage is an artifact of physical conditions, an AI mirage is an artifact of how systems process training data and prompts. In both cases, a human can mistake a mirage for reality or see it for what it really is. We propose the general use of the term AI mirage in place of AI hallucination because it can help build AI literacies, prompting us to explore how AI generates outputs and how humans decide what those outputs mean."
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"From reactive to predictive design: Rather than designing based on past experiences and receiving feedback after development, we can now simulate learner responses before committing resources to development phases.
From generic to psychologically informed design: Instead of treating learners as cognitive processing units with preferences, we can engage with them as complete psychological entities with complex motivations, concerns, and contextual pressures.
From assumption-based to evidence-based iteration: AI personas provide methodologically sound alternatives between expensive learner research and assumption-driven decisions, offering evidence-based insights with superior reliability compared to conjecture while maintaining greater accessibility than comprehensive learner studies."
Marco Bertolini's curator insight,
June 18, 4:33 AM
Another use of AI in education: Learners' persona.
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The Importance of Art Education with or without AI Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that modernity is characterized by fluidity and that “the job of critical thought is to bring into the light the many obstacles piled on the road to emancipation.” (Bauman, 2000, p. 51).
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"When an AI cheerfully validates poorly written learning objectives, inappropriate delivery methods, or evaluation strategies that measure satisfaction rather than impact, it's not being helpful—it's enabling underperformance, perhaps even professional malpractice."
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So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.
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Explore the benefits of alternative grading systems, including contract grading and labor-based models, to reduce student stress, enhance motivation, and clarify expectations for success in the classroom.
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Back in 2012 ("the year of the MOOC"), when Sebastian Thrun told Wired that, in fifty years time there would only be ten universities left in the world and his startup Udacity had a chance to be one of them, I admit, I laughed. I laughed and laughed and laughed
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Artificial intelligence – not just generative AI but particularly generative AI – is one way to do this, and it functions quite neatly as a package of ideologies and practices that seeks to destroy education. I mean, I know that many folks think they can bend these technologies to "make easy" and "do good," but under our current political and economic conditions, that is dangerous, if not impossible. I am appalled – truly appalled – to read calls to "reconsider reading" because of AI; to outsource not just teaching but thinking to AI; to shrug off research and writing because of an imitation of inquiry that comes packaged with a friendly chat interface; to allocate care and service with AI; and, in the end, to mock those who question and refuse AI – to actively undermine others' choice and autonomy – just because the marketing copy insists "things are changing so fast" and someone's got the stats to "prove" it. "
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A response to UNESCO's call on AI and the Future of Education
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A special edition practical guide to selecting & building AI agents for instructional design and L&D
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Virginia Woolf summed it up beautifully:
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Today I would say that to write, a woman must have a space of her own and wifi.
This curation is about education, eLearning, Instructional Design, Marketing, Love, Social Change. Life in general.
Views, values, perspectives written by women who are no longer shackled by obedient silence but play an important contribution to web culture.