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Why Being Polite to AI Matters (And Not For the Reason You Think)
Cross-Posted from where I put it on LinkedIn: I am writing a longer piece on politeness to AI and ethics, but in light of Sam Altman’s recent comments – I asked Claude GAI (very nicely) to extract a 250 word summary from my draft – which I have (quite heavily) edited and is here: We…
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GAI Podcast on Desire in Pali Buddhist Canon
NotebookLM and podcast generation: A test… So – to really test NotebookLM’s function of generating a ‘Deep Dive Conversation’ , I uploaded my book on Desire in Pali Buddhist texts, and asked it to generate the conversation – and it took under 5 minutes – and here we go – a 20 minute (US- accented)…
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THES Digital Universities – reflections
On 20th May I took part in the Times Higher Education Digital Universities Week 2021 event entitled: ‘What could university look like for the class of 2030? Despite the last year changing higher education in ways we never thought possible, there are still years of transformation ahead of us.” Below are some of my reflections, both…
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Don’t cut yourself on all that edge
Contrarian Scepticism as pro-level passive-aggressive performance. This was a Twitter thread, now posted here, trying to reflect on, extend and reconstruct a talk I gave at ‘Question Criticality’ Symposium at Leeds @CentreCelt in November 2019 about criticality/critical thinking in HE and wider contexts We often laud critical thinking, seeing a lack of it as socially…
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Reflections on Decolonising the Curriculum
I posted this as a Twitter thread – but am popping it here too – and to remind me that I want to expand on the of details of classroom practice. I have been thinking, sat in Teams meetings obviously, about decolonising practice in Universities. I think I understand why the most common way to…
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Short video about Remote Learning
I recorded a short piece of video, I think aimed at our students, about remote learning. 5 minutes of me talking into the void…
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All I write are emails: (Not) A Lament.
All I write are emails. I should join my generation in a mass bemoaning. A wailing of would-be scribes. Denied our space to craft lyrical whimsy by neoliberal templates. But I won’t. Because I don’t really write emails. I write missives of reassurance. To a colleague, straining under anxiety who needs kindness. Compassion between the…
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Podcast about shifting to remote/online learning
I spoke over the weekend to philosopher Dr Pat O’Connor, from the Thales’ Well podcast, about the move to online learning. As he said on twitter, “We talked of different aspects of #eLearning like synchronous and asynchronous delivery, managing expectations, value of structure, segmenting on-line classes and other practical tips.” The podcast is live at…
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Is that meant to be funny?
Thinking about pedagogy, comedy, freedom and change. Also incorporating a mini-review of Laura Davis’ Ghost Machine show. Preface: I occasionally develop obsessive interests. I actually seem to accumulate them, but that’s another blog post. Of late this has taken the form of listening to the Comedian’s Comedian podcast – and one of its many virtues…
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Building Cohort Identity, and Social Media
I am delighted to have a small chapter in Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis, Chris Rowell (ed.) The book is a free download/online read if you want the pdf, or you can pay for a physical copy. It features a lot of really valuable material – as the blurb states:…
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