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onto Voices in the Feminine - Digital Delights April 21, 2012 12:25 AM
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September 18, 3:41 AM
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Canadian students discuss the ethical considerations and permissibility of generative AI in the classroom.
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September 13, 2:15 PM
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"So, your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re 25, then you make some decisions, do things, have setbacks, have triumphs, become someone, a bus driver, a professor of Indo-European linguistics, a pirate, a cosmetologist, years pass, maybe in a family maybe not, maybe happy maybe not, then one day you wake up and you’re seventy. Looking ahead you see a black doorway. You begin to notice the black doorway is always there, at the edge, whether you look at it or not. Most moments contain it, most moments have a sort of sediment of black doorway at the bottom of the glass. You wonder if other people are seeing it too. You ask them. They say no. You ask why. No one can tell you."
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September 3, 12:34 PM
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“The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves.”
"In her stunning space-bound ode to the human condition inspired by Carl Sagan, Maya Angelou wrote of us as cosmically lonesome creatures “traveling through casual space past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns” — and yet these selfsame stars made us; out all this indifference arose all our capacity for feeling, our poems and our postulates. That every single atom in your body, if tagged and traced back in time, would lead to the core of a particular star in the early universe is a truth pulsating with transcendence, a truth Nick Cave channels beautifully in one of my favorite songs, singing of the stars as “bright, triumphant metaphors of love.”
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August 29, 12:55 PM
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“Yesterday has already vanished among the shadows of the past; to-morrow has not yet emerged from the future. You have found an intermediate space,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of life’s most haunting hour.
But what we find in that intermediate space between past and future, between the costumed simulacrum of reality we so painstakingly construct with our waking lives and reality laid bare in the naked nocturnal mind, is not always a resting place of ease — for there dwells the self at its most elemental, which means the self most lucidly awake to its foibles and its finitude. "
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August 25, 5:12 AM
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I was reading through some resources on the Educause AI … Friend or Foe showcase, specifically the one on AI and inclusive excellence in higher education, and one thing in particular struck me. The resource talks, among other things, about helping students to understand the ways of thinking,...
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August 22, 4:11 AM
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“A relationship is a physiologic process, as real and as potent as any pill or surgical procedure.”
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August 16, 9:35 AM
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Some college writing instructors worry that the growth of new AI tools may tempt colleges to rely too heavily on the technology or even eliminat
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August 15, 3:34 AM
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“There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.”
"Beauty always has rules. It’s a game. I resent the beauty game when I see it controlled by people who grab fortunes from it and don’t care who they hurt. I hate it when I see it making people so self-dissatisfied that they starve and deform and poison themselves. Most of the time I just play the game myself in a very small way, buying a new lipstick, feeling happy about a pretty new silk shirt."
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August 12, 2:27 PM
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An author I very much admire complained on Facebook recently that the Olympics are an example of "scarcity economics" – only one gold medal so we don't celebrate everyone's immense talent. The Games – all manner of sports contests, she said – are closely bound up in interpersonal violence and war – too loud,
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August 4, 6:19 AM
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“Nothing is easy when you might come apart in the middle at any moment.”
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July 28, 4:12 PM
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Decision-making is the process we use to identify and choose alternatives, producing a final choice, which may or may not result in an action. It can be more or less rational based on the decision maker’s values, beliefs, and (perceived) knowledge.
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Today, 2:13 AM
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“What do we have to hold on to? Only the certainty that nothing will go according to design; our hopes are newly built wooden houses, sturdy until someone drops a cigarette or match.”
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September 15, 6:57 AM
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One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I watched a great blue heron rise slow and prehistoric through the morning mist, carrying the s…
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September 6, 12:45 PM
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You're lonely because you're over-connected (also, influencers are not your friends)
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September 3, 1:53 AM
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How recognizing and meeting the need for belonging, autonomy, competence, self-esteem, trust, and purpose can help teachers truly thrive.
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August 25, 7:26 AM
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“A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow th…
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August 25, 5:11 AM
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"Okay, so the title of this post may seem a little strange but bear with me. Yesterday I listened to a fantastic session by Dave Cormier for the DS106 Radio Summer Camp this week, called “A year of uncertainty – fighting the fight against the RAND corporation.” I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect ...
"So what might it mean to engage in philosophical activities and can AI help students engage in these better in some way, or not?"
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August 18, 11:41 AM
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Metacognition plays a big role in how well we retain information. With a better understanding of how it works, we can leverage it to improve our learning.
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August 15, 7:39 PM
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Many histories of education technology start with the hornbook, a fifteenth century invention that, according to Bill Ferster, "married pedagogy and content knowledge into a physical device" — a device that allowed students to learn their letters (without tearing up or writing in an actual book, I guess).
Of course, where
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August 13, 7:46 AM
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The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here.A conversatio
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August 8, 7:12 AM
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“Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp… the ultimate mystery of Life itself.&…
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August 1, 12:26 PM
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“As you swim, you are washed of all the excrescences of so-called civilization, which includes the incapacity to be happy under any circumstances.”
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July 28, 4:15 PM
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“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”
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July 25, 7:23 AM
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“I felt a twinge, a curious yearning, imperceptible to passersby, my mother, the trees, or the clouds.”