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Kate

@higheredkate.bsky.social
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Accessible Teaching and Learning @ Queen’s / MLIS / queer / 🦻/ disability justice

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Kate @higheredkate.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Once more for the people in the back: UDL does not replace accommodations.
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
would really love to see a post mortem examining this shitshow in detail, with names and emails and receipts
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
On December 6, we remember 🕊️ Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Newspapers clipping of the massacre at école polytechnique in Montreal, Canada in 1989
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 05/12/2024
Most common examples of #Technoableism I see these days? Believing alt text is a "problem" to be solved by AI. So many of you would benefit from developing a mutual aid mentality. Alt text is one form. Examples: #Alt4Me #Alt4You #AltTextPalestine. The answer is community, not AI.
This site has been great in making me more aware of and using (not all the time - I still slip up) alt text.

But it also strikes me as one of the more obvious uses of basic AI, ans auto populate alt text for us with a description of the image.Conspiracy theory: alt text is only there to improve AI image recognition models. Accessibility is a happy byproduct.

AI doesn't understand why a single frame of Captain Picard resting his forehead on his hand has cultural relevance in a tweet about, say, sports. Alt text in a skeet adds context.Yeah, I want to be sympathetic to the idea behind alt text, but it's a pain to do, and often the post text itself already "describes" the image.

Plus, like you said, why isn't AI doing this.  This is an actual useful use case for AI tools.

Also some people are obsessive about blog length alt text.My thinking on #AltText is evolving to be: rather than nagging individuals for behavioral change (for a relatively high-cost low-reward activity), which will never work, we should all pester @bsky.app product to build AI alt-tag drafting into the app / product. #UX
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Kate @higheredkate.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Doing research on disability and using AI in higher ed. If there are any case studies/articles/other resources you’d like to share, please do!
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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
87% of Canadian trans students surveyed reported feeling unsafe at school. We need to do better. Lives literally depend on it. #TransDayOfRemembrance
Infographic showing stats on adverse experiences experienced by trans students
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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Great guide on the praxis and theory of GenAI refusal as a strategy and tactic. Even for those embracing GenAI, this guide offers an excellent boundary-setting process. Also, three researchers I respect immensely. refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
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Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
⬇️ go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
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Kate @higheredkate.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I attended a webinar by Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton yesterday on postplagiarism, AI, and academic integrity. It was genuinely excellent, especially when she touched on Indigenous ways of sharing knowledge (attribution). Watch and access resources here: teachonline.ca/webinar/post...
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Postplagiarism: Helping Students Maintain Academic Integrity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Welcome to TeachOnlineMenu Toggle Icon - openMenu Toggle Icon - close
Teaching and assessing have become increasingly complex with the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) apps and tools that students can access for free or at low cost. Our understand...
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
For anyone who missed this when it came out:
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
wow there are nearly 6,000 starter packs on the Bluesky starter pack directory now something for every taste blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Michel Estefan @mestefan.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Genuinely inclusive and equitable teaching involves translating moral principles into concrete pedagogical practices. The most daunting challenge often lies in devising the latter in ways that actually work for specific institutional contexts and student populations. #pedagogy #sociology #UCSD
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From Inclusive to Equitable Pedagogy: How to Design Course Assignments and Learning Activities That Address Structural Inequalities - Michel Estefan, Jesse Cordes Selbin, Sarah Macdonald, 2023
Current approaches to building inclusive classrooms for first-generation and working-class students tend to emphasize communicative strategies: receiving studen...
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Amy Atchison @dratchison.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
My ORE piece on Gen Z & Pedagogy is out! Thanks @victorasal.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute. It is paywalled, but your library may have access and if you’re an ISA member, you have access via ISAnet.org doi.org/10.1093/acre...
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Fiction, Fact, and Gen Z in International Relations and Comparative Pedagogy
Interchangeably called Gen Z, Generation Z, Gen Zers, and Zoomers, the generation born between the mid-1990s and early to mid-2010s now makes up the majority of postsecondary students. In countries as...
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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
It’s not the rich kids who will be taught by AI.
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