Beatriz Felício
@beafelicio.bsky.social
Studying Jewish History in Medieval and Early Modern Europe @ UÉvora
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“I never asked my undergraduate students to write essays for me because the product inherently mattered. It was always the process: lose that, and the exercise loses its point.” #HigherEducation #writing #philosophy
Our jobs just got a lot harder. It's still our job to get students writing katemanne.substack.com/p/yes-it-is-...
Yes, It Is Our Job As Professors To Stop Our Students Using ChatGPT
Relying on stressed-out students to resist digital temptation is not refusing to play cop; it’s a cop-out.
katemanne.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“I never asked my undergraduate students to write essays for me because the product inherently mattered. It was always the process: lose that, and the exercise loses its point.” #HigherEducation #writing #philosophy
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When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
Universities doubling down as public sentiment shifts away from dependence upon AI. This is the problem with the buy-in.
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
August 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
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One thing I've always known, but saw concretely through faculty reviews over the past few years, is how academic grants + fellowships are self-replicating: when you enter that milieu, you have the *time* and capital to apply for more and more. Resources continually heaped on the same people.
August 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One thing I've always known, but saw concretely through faculty reviews over the past few years, is how academic grants + fellowships are self-replicating: when you enter that milieu, you have the *time* and capital to apply for more and more. Resources continually heaped on the same people.
Oh to be a pigeon in a historical library…
June 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Oh to be a pigeon in a historical library…
“Converting spaces” at Queen Mary University of London (ft. a knee that fell victim to London’s sidewalks)
June 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“Converting spaces” at Queen Mary University of London (ft. a knee that fell victim to London’s sidewalks)