Mariana
@mdvfunes.bsky.social
“Like Thoreau but with WIFI”
BPS chartered cognitive psychologist, executive coach and author.
Open Online Education, assistive technology, neurodiversity in HE
@mdvfunes on the web
Publications: https://bit.ly/pubmdvfunes
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BPS chartered cognitive psychologist, executive coach and author.
Open Online Education, assistive technology, neurodiversity in HE
@mdvfunes on the web
Publications: https://bit.ly/pubmdvfunes
(Photo bit.ly/euthman)
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Hi, Bluesky! You won't know this, but every year at Thompson Rivers University the Learning Technology team hosts a Digital Detox. This year's theme is the 10 Most Toxic Tools in Educational Technology. Curious? Come along to learn more, read a preview, and register: digitaldetox.trubox.ca
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December 27, 2023 at 10:17 PM
Hi, Bluesky! You won't know this, but every year at Thompson Rivers University the Learning Technology team hosts a Digital Detox. This year's theme is the 10 Most Toxic Tools in Educational Technology. Curious? Come along to learn more, read a preview, and register: digitaldetox.trubox.ca
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“The AI tool uses cameras and audio recordings to report on whether the teacher looked at or walked through each section of the classroom, how often they used group work, and many other techniques. Even the words the teacher and students use are tracked.”
UAlbany Professor Develops AI to Give Teachers Feedback
A professor of educational theory is creating an AI tool that records video and audio to determine whether a teacher addressed each section of the classroom, how often they used group work and other t...
www.govtech.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“The AI tool uses cameras and audio recordings to report on whether the teacher looked at or walked through each section of the classroom, how often they used group work, and many other techniques. Even the words the teacher and students use are tracked.”
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One thing that needs to get repeated until it sinks in is that “AI” does not simply function as a tool that people in power are using; it’s even more powerful as a permission structure for the destructive & extractive things they wanted to do in the first place.
Every time someone says they won’t try to use ai to replace teachers, you should put “yet” at the end of their sentence.
Outrage as university says AI tutors will run lectures in course
Three AI programs are set to replace lecture slides in a university course this semester.
www.nzherald.co.nz
March 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
One thing that needs to get repeated until it sinks in is that “AI” does not simply function as a tool that people in power are using; it’s even more powerful as a permission structure for the destructive & extractive things they wanted to do in the first place.
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Johnson may or may not understand the tech. In either case, this is a clear example of how AI will be used in this administration: either by duping politicians about what AI can do, or giving them a cover story to pretend AI can do the things they want to get done.
Mike Johnson on Elon Musk: "We meet late into the night in his office and we've looked at that. What he's finding with his algorithms crawling through the data of Social Security system is enormous amounts of fraud, waste, and abuse."
March 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Johnson may or may not understand the tech. In either case, this is a clear example of how AI will be used in this administration: either by duping politicians about what AI can do, or giving them a cover story to pretend AI can do the things they want to get done.
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Looking for source or at least text of that wisdom someone wrote about calling just ”AI” all the varied things that use the approach is like referring to all cars, trucks, bicycles, trains, etc as just “vehicles”. I know @kin wrote about comparisons of GenAI and cars but this was different. #ai
March 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The kids are alright
“AI is constantly incorrect, environmentally damaging and such a stupid way of learning. I started studying so I could be taught by professionals, not a robot telling me slop gathered from hundreds of places on the internet,”
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/universit...
“AI is constantly incorrect, environmentally damaging and such a stupid way of learning. I started studying so I could be taught by professionals, not a robot telling me slop gathered from hundreds of places on the internet,”
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/universit...
Outrage as university says AI tutors will run lectures in course
Three AI programs are set to replace lecture slides in a university course this semester.
www.nzherald.co.nz
March 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I am back here experimenting with this platform. I seem to have found quite a few of you from 'that other site' so let's see how it goes. Are you using it regularly? Is it good, bad, indifferent? 🙏 @cogdog.bsky.social you here?
March 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I am back here experimenting with this platform. I seem to have found quite a few of you from 'that other site' so let's see how it goes. Are you using it regularly? Is it good, bad, indifferent? 🙏 @cogdog.bsky.social you here?
Well, my first post here. Motivated by one of my mates having joined. 👋 Let's kick this off with a video of Pup Patch. Oops. No video allowed. Hashtag did not seem to do much either. Let's see how this goes.
February 10, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Well, my first post here. Motivated by one of my mates having joined. 👋 Let's kick this off with a video of Pup Patch. Oops. No video allowed. Hashtag did not seem to do much either. Let's see how this goes.