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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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higheredkate.bsky.social
Once more for the people in the back: UDL does not replace accommodations.
January 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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protik.bsky.social
would really love to see a post mortem examining this shitshow in detail, with names and emails and receipts
karlbode.com Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Dec 31
"In 2023 Elsevier began using AI during production without informing the board, resulting in many style and formatting errors, as well as reversing versions of papers that had already been accepted and formatted by the editors."

very innovative, very cool
Evolution journal editors resign en masse
Board members expressed concerns over high fees, editorial independence, and use of AI in editorial processes.
arstechnica.com
December 31, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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wickdchiq.bsky.social
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
December 6, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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ashleemboyer.com
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
December 5, 2024 at 6:44 PM
higheredkate.bsky.social
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!
November 29, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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eslfairy.bsky.social
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
November 21, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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mikertrice.bsky.social
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...
Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
Visit the post for more.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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monishabajaj.bsky.social
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go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
November 15, 2024 at 9:56 PM
higheredkate.bsky.social
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...
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...
teachonline.ca
November 14, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"
November 12, 2024 at 4:23 AM
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riacheyne.bsky.social
For anyone who missed this when it came out:
November 12, 2024 at 7:58 AM
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mims.bsky.social
wow there are nearly 6,000 starter packs on the Bluesky starter pack directory now

something for every taste

blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 11, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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mestefan.bsky.social
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
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...
journals.sagepub.com
March 21, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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dratchison.bsky.social
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...
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...
doi.org
March 22, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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readywriting.bsky.social
It’s not the rich kids who will be taught by AI.
March 22, 2024 at 8:35 PM