Dr. Heather Leslie
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Learning Designer. Purveyor of pedagogy. Educator. Lifelong learner/forever student.
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Andrea Anastasakis
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This whole thing is out of control.
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The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-ecological-cost-of-ai-is-much-higher-than-you-think/
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Charles Logan
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Read Audrey Watters, always. "Technologies are often wielded in ways meant to imply that humans are weak, messy, slow, stupid, replaceable. We are strong, messy, awkward, flawed, irreplaceable. All of us. Our strength comes, in part, from this vulnerability, from our humanity."
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AI Grief Observed
These remarks were delivered this evening at the Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series at Illinois State University. "There is no good way to say this." These are the opening words of Yiyun Liās l...
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-grief-observed/
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I wrote about a recent book I read and the start of my journey trying to integrate regenerative values into my education design amidst all this AI disruption
medium.com/@heatherlesl...
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The end of education as we know it: Regenerating my praxis amidst AI
I recently read a book titled The End of Education as We Know It: Regenerative Learning for Complex Times by Ida Rose Florez. I came acrossā¦
https://medium.com/@heatherleslie_1983/the-end-of-education-as-we-know-it-regenerating-my-praxis-amidst-ai-381e58b37cf9
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Thomas
6 months ago
...When experts talk about artificial intelligence, for example, they always talk about tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after that; very rarely do we hear about what has already been achieved to date." 2/2
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Robin James
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This is actually the thing that worries me most about AI. It's "there is no such thing as society" implemented as software solution. Needing to ask people for help, advice, or information is part of how we build and maintain social and professional bonds.
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Olivia Guest Ā· Īλίβια ĪκεĻĻ
22 days ago
āI already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of masterās theses. I explicitly tell my students they wonāt learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.ā šš»āāļøšš»āāļøšš»āāļø
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
https://apache.be/2025/10/24/belgian-ai-scientists-resist-use-ai-academia?cdlnk=OFNhOGFlak5qRTE1cjhPbXR6eWMvL2VMRER0cVArcDNzT1Q0cjhVU3N2NVhYUG5GT3dKcjFsZVM2dDFPMyt5SVhVRStyQ3BvRVA4bTU5R1k5MnplSGc9PTo6YzQ1Mzc5NzAzODk5OTI2ZDkzNTY1NmUxNmQ3MjU5NTk%3D
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Shaily Patel
23 days ago
āThe widespread use of these tools, in both school and work, feels like it's driven by a self-fulfilling prophecy: the promise of an employment landscape only AI itself can imagine.ā
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ElizabethwithaZ
27 days ago
There's a nice chart on this page with alternatives.
www.raspberrypi.org/blog/ai-educ...
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How anthropomorphism hinders AI education - Raspberry Pi Foundation
Our approach to describing AI and machine learning in AI education resources for young people.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/ai-education-anthropomorphism/
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Alexandra Mihai
about 1 month ago
"Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again." *** Katherine May,Ā "Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times"
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Ruth Zakarin
about 1 month ago
Itās time to post this quote again⦠āThe children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.ā ā James Baldwin
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So one thing I cannot stand are those AI-generated podcasts from Notebook LM. So many in higher ed are telling students to use this to understand dense academic articles. While I get the intent to make content accessible to learners to both: a break down the subject and b: present it in an audio
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Just published an article in the Journal of Faculty Development on a new instructor orientation I designed that onboards faculty to teach asynchronous online courses. The orientation has received positive feedback and Iām happy to share our experience
digital.sandiego.edu/ldc-scholars...
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New Instructor Orientation: Preparing Faculty to Facilitate Online Courses
This case study of a new instructor orientation describes a course to prepare faculty to facilitate courses in a universityās online programs. This case study provides a detailed description of the co...
https://digital.sandiego.edu/ldc-scholarship/16/
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McSweeney's
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"Iāve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better. If only Iād had a better education in AI prompt writing, Iād be able to get AI to create more AI-proof teaching materials for me."
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I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers
I care deeply about my studentsā learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that theyāre not doing the...
https://buff.ly/5FvxonZ
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This is so sad. Among other horrible decisions, reinstating grades and doing away with narrative evaluations are removing what distinguishes this institution and the quality educational experience it offers
www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
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Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida
Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/state-oversight/2025/10/01/spending-soars-rankings-fall-new-college-florida
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Alyssa S.
about 1 month ago
Really a must read. And very brave right now too.
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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA)
about 2 months ago
šØNEW RESEARCHšØ AWU teamed up with
@techequity.bsky.social
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@cwaunion.bsky.social
to produce a report - Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Techās Exploitation - documenting the working conditions of the workers behind the AI boom.
cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...
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Does anyone know of a meta-analysis of ungrading research?
#ungrading
about 2 months ago
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Sonja Drimmer
about 2 months ago
Read the long version here.
www.artforum.com/features/gen...
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MACHINE YEARNING
Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historiansā recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.
https://www.artforum.com/features/generative-ai-structure-of-feeling-1234728310/
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This quote: āwriting requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.ā
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Christine Johnson
about 2 months ago
Everyone involved in committees and policymaking around genAI in universities should be required to listen to at least one episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with
@emilymbender.bsky.social
and
@alexhanna.bsky.social
before every meeting.
www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/
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JƩrƓme MelanƧon
about 2 months ago
My very limited understanding of the technology had me believing that hallucinations were the wrong concept because (1) everything LLMs do is repeat statistical probabilities, and so have no grounding in reality or truth, and (2) LLMs are not beings and do not perceive and so do not hallucinate. 1/
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Beautiful piece!
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Jack Schneider
about 2 months ago
If we want to stem the problematic use of A.I. in K-12 and higher education, we need to understand why students use it. The latest from me and
@ehutt.bsky.social
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AI isn't the end of the essay
Artificial intelligence chat bots like ChatGPT will force educators to change how they motivate and grade students, write professors Ethan Hutt and Jack Schneider. We need to emphasize the process of ...
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2025/09/18/ai-in-schools-chat-gpt-gemeni-claude-student-education-ethan-hutt-jack-schneider
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Charles Logan
about 2 months ago
Luddites unite! "As we train our sights on what we oppose, letās recall the costs of surrender...We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism." āļøš¤āļø
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Marc C-Scott
about 2 months ago
My latest Substack piece, āThe False Precision of Grades: What are we really measuring?ā Do grades really capture student learning? I briefly dig into this and the illusion of precision in gradingā¦
echoesoflearningandteaching.substack.com/p/the-false-...
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The False Precision of Grades: What Are We Really Measuring?
For centuries, grading has been the dominant language of education.
https://echoesoflearningandteaching.substack.com/p/the-false-precision-of-grades-what?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
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Olivia Guest Ā· Īλίβια ĪκεĻĻ
2 months ago
šš«š¤ No AI Gods, No AI Masters š¤š«š I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) ā and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social &
@marentierra.bsky.social
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www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...
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Olivia Guest Ā· Īλίβια ĪκεĻĻ
2 months ago
Finally! 𤩠Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industryās marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
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Dr Susan D Blum
2 months ago
This new book, The Ungraded Classroom, edited by Carlo Ricci and Gina Riley (with a foreword by @susandblum), has just been published! It has many examples, beautifully and honestly presented, of ways educators have included ungrading in their classrooms.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQHZKJZ...
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The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning
The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning [Ricci PhD, Carlo, Riley PhD, Gina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQHZKJZQ/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title#detailBullets_feature_div
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! ⦠It's All For You!
2 months ago
This is exactly the right way to think of this; precisely what I'm saying, yes
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Ethan Siegel
2 months ago
In my experience, using an LLM only works if you know how, when, and where to correct the LLM when it returns non-factual or counter-factual information. You need the very expertise that many people are attempting to "outsource" to the LLM to avoid believing the AI slop. This is not a good system.
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Amen! Schoolishness = artificial
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I have a half-baked morbid idea for some class exercises to have students use LLMs. Scenario-based (dark academia?) 1.) Student pretends they are an executive at a health insurance company.
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Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need
A STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is driving Medicare Advantage denials to new heights, cutting off care for seniors.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence/
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Charles Logan
2 months ago
These are desperate attempts to embed AI technologies into schools and recruit lifetime users and I urge my fellow educators to see these attempts as such and refuse to be bought by Big Tech and this fascist government.
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Hypervisible
2 months ago
This by
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Human Literacy
Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. That you should know what to type into prompt windo...
https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-literacy/
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Charles Logan
3 months ago
Since tomorrow is Labor Day and school is in session, I'd like to argue (again) that teaching about GenAI should include discussion of the extractive, exploitative labor conditions that make the technology possible. š§µ
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Kashana
3 months ago
āWith our new virtual servant program, you can have the blackness and the subservience that you need without the uncomfortableness of having to talk to an actual black personā
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Defector
3 months ago
"A fellow human is not designed to make you feel good about having interacted with them, or to convince you of their utility, or to persuade you to bring your thoughts and problems to them instead of someone else; a fellow human is not designed at all."
defector.com/butlerian-ji...
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Butlerian Jihad Now | Defector
Maybe some things should not be simulated. That is my takeawayāone of them, anywayāfrom a Tuesday New York Times story by Kashmir Hill about the death by suicide of a California teenager named Adamā¦
https://defector.com/butlerian-jihad-now
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Civics of Technology
3 months ago
New curriculum resources from
@jbpleasa.bsky.social
just added to our site! Read about them here:
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/new-cur...
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New Curriculum Resources: Technoskeptical Investigations of AI Tech ā Civics of Technology
By Jacob Pleasants & Julianna Kershen How are you going to talk with your students about AI? We are required to have an AI policy in our syllabus. Perhaps your institution requires one as well. ...
https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/new-curriculum-resources-investigating-ai-technologies
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Ungrading comrades- I am putting together a presentation for faculty on
#ungrading
and am looking for examples to share from other faculty who practice ungrading/alt grading. If you have a syllabus or examples to share of how you do this, Iād love to include it as samples! Thx š
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Tony Corsentino
3 months ago
LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can ātrainā an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)
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Carley
3 months ago
Yep, using this quote for syllabus day
#academicchatter
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I truly believe traditional grades (already problematic) only exacerbates the transactional problem of education when coupled with AI.
3 months ago
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James Hultgren
3 months ago
THIS. I think a not-insignificant reason that people are buying into AI hype is because they believe it will allow the to avoid tricky issues weāve never solved: insufficient mental health services, toxic professional and academic cultures, unsustainable productivity expectations⦠just slap AI on it
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Všrp
3 months ago
I can't dedicate the time required to research it myself, but OpenAI and the other big ones hide the numbers so that doesn't help
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We did the math on AIās energy footprint. Hereās the story you havenāt heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem smallāuntil you add up what the industry isnāt tracking and consider where itās heading next.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
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Nancy Flanagan š¼
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This. Is. Perfect.
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Whatās your AI techbro pitch of this āmagicalā technology š¤£@dbuckedu.bsky.social
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
@drsepinwall.bsky.social
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
@biblioracle.bsky.social
@hypervisible.bsky.social
@audreywatters.bsky.social
@roxanegay.bsky.social
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AI tech bros: This, but make it education
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Techbros pitching AI
#AIhype
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Dave Karpf
4 months ago
I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just⦠said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
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The banking concept of education for pedagogical, financial, and techno-fascist control
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