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Ana Cristina Pratas
March 23, 8:04 AM
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“You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive.” The morning after a relationship of depth and significance long bending under the weight of its own complexity had finally broken with an exhausted thud, I opened the kiln to discover a month’s worth of pottery shattered — two pieces had exploded, the shrapnel ruining the rest. All that centering, all that glazing, all the hours of pressing letterforms into the wet clay — all of it in shiny shards. And meanwhile spring was breaking outside and a little girl in bright blue rain boots was jumping in a puddle, smashing the reflections of the clouds with savage joy. And I thought, this is all there is: breaking, breaking apart, breaking open. Breaking alive.
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March 17, 12:38 PM
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Author: Anastasia Bojanowski, University of Central Florida Editor: Dr. Denise Lowe, University of Central Florida Dear ADDIE, Some of my colleagues are leveraging Generative AI for content creation. I have content that needs to be updated and would like to use AI platforms. However, I soon became overwhelmed when I searched for options. Further, I … Continue reading "Considerations of Generative AI for Content Creation (Issue 32)"
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Ana Cristina Pratas
March 7, 8:54 AM
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"It's Bad." It's very very bad. And each week, when I gather up the education and AI-related news here, I keep wishing I could say we've reached the peak of this mountain of horrors and that things will get easier, things will get better from here. It's quite apparent that
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Ana Cristina Pratas
February 21, 5:04 AM
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The political-technological crisis is only deepening in the United States, and I hardly know where to begin today's email to you, other than to say that I hope you're okay. And if you're not, do feel free to hit "reply" – I can't promise anything other than a very human ear
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Ana Cristina Pratas
January 31, 5:05 AM
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"AI Will Empower Humanity," says Reid Hoffman, venture capitalist, OpenAI funder, co-founder of Linkedin, and member (along with Peter Thiel, David O. Sacks, and Elon Musk) of the "PayPal Mafia." (Related, from The Guardian's Chris McGreal: "How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa.")
Hoffman imagines
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Ana Cristina Pratas
January 24, 8:26 AM
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January 8, 8:28 AM
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My goal is to explain the hallmarks of both applied humanities and experiential learning approaches, as well as what each mode of learning can offer to students.
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Ana Cristina Pratas
January 3, 5:12 AM
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Happy New Year! Let's all take a deep breath, because 2025 going to be a weird one.
"Do not obey in advance," historian Timothy Snyder cautions. "Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want,
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 30, 2024 5:54 AM
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Folks wrung their hands a lot this year about reading. "No one buys books," Elle Griffin argued this spring, although apparently Bible sales are surging, as – according to The Washington Times at least, "Gen Z is sick and tired of predecessors' self-centered godlike hubris." Joke's on The Times, of course,
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 26, 2024 12:20 PM
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This is the elemental speaking: It is during phase transition — when the temperature and pressure of a system go beyond what the system can withstand and matter changes from one state to anot…
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 12, 2024 4:20 AM
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“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.”
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December 8, 2024 6:43 AM
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“Intimacy is presence magnified by our vulnerability, magnified by increasing proximity to the fear that underlies that vulnerability.”
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December 5, 2024 2:10 PM
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By Priya Panday-Shukla, Washington State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/DZWQ2675 Intro I tried Google NotebookLM about a year ago, and I thought it was just another AI tool; now, almost a year later, I have to say that it has emerged as
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Ana Cristina Pratas
March 21, 9:42 AM
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The Gates Foundation, we learned this week, is backing away from its environmental efforts, slashing staff and funding for projects that sought in part to address global climate change. Bill Gates is "retooling his empire for the Trump era," as The New York Times put it. No mention in that
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March 14, 6:23 AM
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On Saturday night, ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate and prominent pro-Palestine campus activist still living in campus housing with his 8-month-pregnant wife, a US citizen. Initially, Khalil, who was born in Syria, was told his student visa was being revoked; when agents were told he
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February 28, 5:10 AM
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“If you’re so rich, how come you’re not smart?”
The quotation above, from Dan Davies's new book The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions – And How the World Lost Its Mind, has been playing on repeat in my head since I read it this week. It
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Ana Cristina Pratas
February 20, 9:32 AM
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“The main thing is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.”
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January 24, 8:28 AM
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One of the things I told myself when I decided to return to writing about education technology was that, thanks to therapy (and, no doubt, to leaving social media), I’d learned how to better manage my emotions around the onslaught of very-bad-news. This week has been a real test.
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Ana Cristina Pratas
January 15, 11:44 AM
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Using AI to scale a powerful learning strategy: teaching others
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January 3, 7:09 AM
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Do you need a way to calm down a busy design or balance vivid colors? Then you'll love the color gray for learning design.
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 30, 2024 7:15 AM
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A book excerpt from Brené Brown's Dare to Lead book — We need braver leaders and more courageous cultures.
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December 30, 2024 3:56 AM
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"It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give."
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December 26, 2024 12:17 PM
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" (...) a passage from Louise Erdrich’s 2005 novel The Painted Drum (public library) flits across the sky of my mind: Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could."
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Ana Cristina Pratas
December 11, 2024 4:11 AM
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Insights from ~300 instructional designers who have taken my AI & Learning Design bootcamp this year
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December 6, 2024 9:10 AM
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The Oxford University Press's word of the year is "brain rot." I believe that's two words, but whatever. Let an academic press have its moment in the sun, with headlines that, this time around, don't involve selling off its authors' IP to giant technology companies. "‘Brain rot’ is defined as
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