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Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Students don't engage with content. They engage with people.

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Anyone here heading to #21CLHK25 this week in Hong Kong to hang with @21cl.bsky.social and other like minded folks?

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It’s hard to make this up. “Al Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use Al in Job Applications” open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

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Irony too funny for words

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I think I'll just say this when I'm asked to weigh in on an inane topic in a meeting. (Appeared in MS Word upon invoking the dictionary).

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 24/01/2025

this is how every site should look actually

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I just put my phone on Do Not Disturb 24/7/365. Only my wife and kids can get through. Everything else can wait. I’ll let you know how it goes.

John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The teens & screens debate is broken. At UK, Ryan Hargrove & I are leaning in with our design thinking course, Teens & Screens, a hands-on class to tackle the challenge of teens & tech. Check out our liquid syllabus: sites.google.com/view/tek-300... Who’s tackling this too? Let’s connect!

Ken Morrison @thismighthelpedu.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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I have listened to most episodes of this valuable podcast by @jasonjohnston.bsky.social and @jnash.bsky.social thanks John, Jason, and guests for the valuable videos that can be applied to all classrooms.

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Jason Johnston @jasonjohnston.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I am thrilled to share EP 33 of the Online Learning Podcast with @flowerdarby.bsky.social ! @jnash.bsky.social and I talk with Flower about small steps that can help create more inclusive, equitable, and humanized online learning. Website: lnkd.in/e8N49bU5 Apple Podcasts: lnkd.in/embjJGvd

Flower Darby - Improving Online Teaching: Small Changes, Outsized Impact. Episode 33 of the Online Learning (in the second half) Podcast. www.onlinelearningpodcast.com

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#Community. You never know where you’re going to find it.

Graffiti on a traffic light control box on the street corner that says “my name is Eliot L Green. I lived here from August 20 to April 24. The world is dying, but the people I met here made that bearable. Thank you Lexington.”

John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Research tests if LLMs hold consistent values. LLMs handle neutral topics reliably; controversial issues vary. Not surprising but important to document. Why? Consistency is a known issue with LLMs & value-aware models may be used to exploit users. #LLM #GenAI arxiv.org/html/2407.02...

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Are Large Language Models Consistent over Value-laden Questions?

John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This is a lovely starter guide from @tonyvincent.bsky.social for teschers who are considering BlueSky. Share with your colleagues!

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Yes to all of this. Fwiw, our survey respondents had A LOT to say about the particular reasons. We wrote up the results here: "Gendered devaluation underlies faculty retention", also led by @kspoon.bsky.social, with @danlarremore.bsky.social, @larivera.bsky.social and others. osf.io/preprints/so...

Screenshot of paper title, authors, and abstract: "Gendered devaluation underlies faculty retention" (2024), by Katie Spoon, Joanna Mendy, Maria Martinez, Mirta Galesic, Daniel B Larremore, Aaron Clauset, and Lauren A Rivera.
Abstract: "Women faculty experience academia differently from men in many ways, which can lead them to consider leaving their positions. Using a large-scale survey of 10,071 current and former tenure- track and tenured faculty, representing nearly all U.S. PhD-granting institutions and 29 diverse fields of study, we show that perceived workplace climate is the most gendered aspect of faculty life, compared to stress related to research pressures, work-life balance, and departmental support. Further, analyzing 6,615 free-text responses from the same respondents reveals that devaluation, both in formal evaluations and informal interactions, is the most gendered workplace climate factor. These patterns are especially salient among women of color and tenured women. Women report that devaluation is exacerbated when institutional leadership fails to respond to devaluation, leading many to leave their jobs. Our results highlight that successful remedies must involve organizational change rather than solely individual solutions."

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Saw this today while watching MyNameIsDeya’s YT feed. Couldn’t be more applicable for so many of us. Remember: you got this. www.instagram.com/p/DA6oBilNBs...

Cute white fluffy bunny wearing amber glamorous glasses and saying “ woah bro did you just judge yourself for doing your best?”

Dr. Alec Couros @courosa.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Prof. Ryan Hargrove & I can attest to this: students enter college believing they should (a) be good at school & (b) don’t have to be good at learning. When 18 y-os enter our ungraded, project based, community driven course, we start the work to help them unlearn 12 years of indoctrination. #EduSky

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As #edusky & other BlueSky teacher communities emerge, it's worth remembering that many educators left Twitter well before the Elon et. al toxicity period. Excessive self-promotion, lack of professional benefit, stress/burnout, noise, erosion of dialogue, etc. were all factors. Let's learn and grow.

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I love this simple insertion of #GenAI into a tried and true collaborative teaching technique. It can extend thinking within the pair and group, and set up constructive critique of how and when GenAI is and isn’t appropriate or useful. Thanks, @courosa.bsky.social! #EduSky

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Making the case for rekindling reading for fun among youth: “The skills that students use when reading for fun — especially reading longer texts — are also the same ones they need for everything from reading car manuals to ‘listening to political discourse and making sense of it’” #EduSky

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Each tip in this piece is applicable immediately and fit even in undergraduate and graduate courses. I found two I’ll use right away in my classes. #EduSky

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For fun, I tried replicating Edward Zitron's if ChatGPT 4o knows the number of states with “A” in the name. The offering is 33, including Connecticut. The correct answer is 36. Will this be covered in the new Common Sense Media guide for educators? #generativeAI #ChatGPT

John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

@bethrous.bsky.social and I just took our first #Waymo ride. Pretty surreal. Ask me anything.

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m sympathetic to horrified colleagues receiving superficially grammatical garbage assignments. What have the students actually learned? Turning stuff in is not evidence of learning, though it has come to be students’ primary task. Checking things off the #LMS assignment list. 2/2

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Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A5: Always recommend Grow Beyond Grades (growbeyondgrades.org/blog?categor...) for those with new interest. I have been trying to read more scholarship. Pedagogy recently had a special issue on ungrading that I highly recommend: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53743 #UngradingChat

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Project MUSE - Pedagogy-Volume 24, Issue 3, October 2024

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m not sure this is a problem that really need solving. However, if implemented in university meetings to shame, say, mansplaining — that could be fun.

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American Airlines to shame boarding line cutters with new technology

American Airlines plans to roll out the new technology to 100 airports across the country.

Justin Bathon @jbathon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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Amazing #CASTLE session at #UCEA on Tech Intersections with Education Leadership. AI informed, equity focused, internationally informed, policy curious ... super cool. Learn more here: schooltechleadership.org @jaysonrichardson.bsky.social @scottmcleod.bsky.social

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I have now seen multiple snide references to the "faculty lounge" in higher education, and if someone can please direct me to this place called a "faculty lounge," I would appreciate it. It sounds like a place where power is wielded!

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Jason Gulya @jasongulya.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If we adopt AI, we need to do it with purpose and conviction that it helps us and our students. Not because we think it’s inevitable, so we need to give in.

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

News of Common Sense Media publishing a guide for educators focused just on OpenAI’s ChatGPT (carrying Altman’s water?) reminded me of this quote from @jasonjohnston.bsky.social’s keynote at the KY Convergence Conference this month. HT Jason #edusky #genAI #teachers

A presentation slide says “Don’t wait for the tech companies / vendors to tell you want to do” “Proactive”

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UCEA GSC @uceagsc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Welcome to today’s Graduate Student Summit! Check in on the 2nd floor, then join us at the opening session at noon in Beaudry B. 📣 The GSC Call for Applications (2025-2027) is open! Learn more and apply by Jan 31 at tinyurl.com/uceagsc2... #UCEA24 #EducationLeadership

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Lizzie Fraser, architect featured on “Your Home Made Perfect,” describes #designthinking to a T. This is how latent needs are discovered: “It’s my job to disprove what you think you want, and show you what you didn’t know you wanted.” #discovery #empathy #listening #design

A female architect wearing googles and looking happy working in a wood shop.

A female architect looking into the camera being interviewed for a TV show.

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Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com · 19/11/2024

This is a fascinating study, and speaks to the vast perception gap between what LLMs are capable of and what people think they are capable of. Doctors using ChatGPT for diagnosis performed *worse* than ChatGPT alone, because they kept second-guessing the model. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...

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A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness

A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Today's the day! -A Pedagogy of Kindness- is now out as an audiobook, available wherever you get your audiobooks (including your library!) Thanks to everyone at the U of OK Press and Tantor Media for this. You can hear a preview at the link below www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr0J...

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A Pedagogy of Kindness by Catherine J. Denial · Audiobook preview

YouTube video by Google Play Books

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Susan Faircloth @sfaircloth12.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Dear Educators. Dressing up as Native Americans to celebrate/teach about Thanksgiving isn't culturally/ pedagogically appropriate. Images like the one below are harmful. See: americanindian.si.edu/nk360/inform... centerracialjustice.org/resources/th... www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/tea...

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John Nash @jnash.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“I try to write using ordinary words and simple sentences. That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read, the more deeply readers will engage with it. The less energy they expend on your prose, the more they'll have left for your ideas.” ~Paul Graham (HT Eddie Shleyner)