My desire to use a grading contract bc numerical grades are fake is entirely at odds with how satisfying I find creating a backup (read: better) gradebook w/ formulas in excel
Jessica Berchtold rounds out the panel with an ASD-specific reading of university spaces, which those of you in cds gang know is very popular right now! she is well-timed here with her subject & approach. #DisabilityTwitter#ATTW2023
The real 'divide' isn't between AI 'Safety' & AI 'Ethics'. It's between 'risk' & 'harm.'
Risk mitigation is a firm-focused corporate/technical/anti-litigation strategy.
Harm reduction is people-focused, based on acknowledging, investigating, mitigating, ending, repairing harm.
Wanted to be one of the cool instructors who has an interactive syllabus...ok, nope, the LMS doesn't like that. Fine, cool, I'll make a syllabus quiz for students to retake until they get a 100%. Wrote questions and built into gradebook. Nope, the LMS doesn't like that either.
When grading feels overwhelming and burn out from the end of a semester is threatening, seeing the quirky things students title their assignments is truly what motivates me to continue /hj
You can really ask students to write text that would go on a website (not the actual website, just the text!) and they suddenly have never visited any website ever
After 8 years in college, I've mostly figured out when to call profs their first name, last name, and when to use Dr, but I still haven't for the life of me figured out what to call them to *other professors.*
It feels like that changes the rules, somehow.