David Nowak

Chairperson & PhD candidate. My research interests: Technical Communication at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (Deep Learning) & Social Justice.

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Student loan debt cancellation is long overdue.

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This should be an interesting meetup . . .

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For too long, standardized testing has been overused and misused in ways that either knowingly or inadvertently set up structures akin to institutional and structural inequities.

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It is well past time that we begin to take a deeper look at how our technologies harm certain groups of people. We have been far too casual about advances in AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning.
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ON THIS DAY . . . 12 MARCH 1989 . . . TIM BERNERS-LEE PROPOSES THE WEB

Initially sparse on details, the proposal was more of a request to undertake research.

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ON THIS DAY . . . THE FIRST MP3 PLAYER WAS RELEASED -- MARCH 11TH, 1998

The MPMan debuted today in Asia in 1998. The first mass-produced mp3 player, the MPMan cost $250 for a 32GB model that could hold approximately 8 songs.

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Historical discrimination is codified into algorithms and these algorithms then perpetuate existing discrimination.

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Far too many urban and rural poor can't afford access and lack the means--and the skills--to take advantage of the Internet and participate in the digital economy. This should be a public right.

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I do like @Lowes more than the orange big box store. But I wasted too many hours trying to get you to take care of my $1,300 sink vanity order. Store associates don't follow through, replacement was supposed to be here next Wed. only to find out it was not placed. Still no sink.

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Such backlash isn't new. And neither is the fact that most often it is women and people of color who are the recipients of such . . .
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We are seeing a potential lost generation of male students primarily from low-income and working-class families leaving education to support their families.

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Furthering the divide between the haves and have nots . . .

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Binary thinking separates academia from society at large and hinders us from imagining ourselves in a productive relation to that wider society. We need to exchange this binary for new, more capacious metaphors.

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We have always underfunded students of color. To close the gap doesn't erase the historical deficit. It also doesn't address students coming to college from under resourced K-12 districts.

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This is why college should be free to all people.

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This is how students get trapped by soul-crushing student loan debt. Many students then wind up in jobs they hate but take either because it's a job or it was the job that paid the most. This is a feature and not a bug in the system.

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OWU isn't the first and won't be the last in this horrible path of cost cutting. Need I remind everyone that you don't cut your way to profitability? You are only managing the bleeding but not attending to the wound.

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Once the global leader—after World War II the United States had the highest high school graduation rate in the world—the country now ranks 18th among the top 24 industrialized nations, with more than 1 million secondary school students dropping out every year.

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Calls for quicker, cheaper paths into the job market grow louder. The education press overflows with radical proposals: to create alternatives to the college degree, for example, or break associate’s and bachelor’s degrees into microcredentials.

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UNC’s decision to go remote came one hour after tuition was collected; tuition comes before health and safety at some institutions.