Reposted by Marcos Fanton
Social media doesn't just feed you bad information. It trains you in how to treat information: who to trust, how much evidence is enough, what counts as a good explanation.
And it trains you for a world that doesn't exist.
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Beyond Misinformation: Social Media and the Sculpting of Epistemic Agency
The dominant account of social media's epistemic harms focuses on the spread of misinformation and the production of false beliefs at scale. This paper argues that the misinformation narrative, whate...
![Social sciences (sosc) Core classes will generally prohibit the use of technology in class and ban the use of artificial intelligence tools by students and instructors beginning this fall, according to a Social Sciences Collegiate Division (SSCD) memo obtained by the Maroon.
The guidance, issued by SSCD Master Jenny Trinitapoli in consultation with sequence chairs and instructors, reflects a "strong consensus... that our sequences are best understood as a pedagogical setting without AI," the memo reads. "Although practices have varied course-by-course in recent years, in AY 2027 sequences are collectively designed to be taught as 'analog' courses."
Under the new guidelines, students will primarily read texts on paper and engage with them via device-free guided discussions, in contrast to previous years, when technology policies were left to the discretion of instructors, with many permitting the use of laptops and digital texts in class.
"[I]n the SOSC Core we first equip students to read, write, and think without dependence on AL, just as we equip students to read, write, and think beyond the bounds of conventional views or leading ideologies," the memo reads.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qsb2qaewimpfeiydylqptyvw/bafkreie6cz2j5ec6agdljhh4gfg3jzl5uecevflx2wzdnfklarh2nevv5a)
