Emilie A

Manager, Curricular Innovation Initiatives @OCAD. Recovering medievalist, #ADHD. Interests: GAI, Raciolinguistics, Faculty Dev., Academic Integrity.

[Marc Watkins @Marc__Watkins]

We shouldn't destroy ourselves in arguments about AI. campuses need to focus on conversations that allow faculty to form shared values and shape what role, if any, AI should have in education.

[Marc Watkins @Marc__Watkins]

The UChicago president is setting a clear educational pathway for faculty and students. This is one of the strongest and clearest messages I've seen from admin about how they are approaching AI as a campus. I would hope other campuses will follow.

[Marc Watkins @Marc__Watkins]

It was wonderful spending time with @anetv & Derek Bruff talking about AI-Aware teaching on The Tea for Teaching Podcast. We need to start having serious and sustained conversations across campuses about what role AI should have in classrooms and teaching.

[Will G @BillyStu]

Having spent the last 3 years teaching at a large state university, I think the main challenge exposed by AI is that many of our (most senior, respected) professors don’t even know what student learning or growth looks like; they’ve been engaged in the simulacrum for a while. 1/3

[Marc Watkins @Marc__Watkins]

There’s only so much you can proctor that represents a fraction of the learning exposed to AI. Students are using AI to prepare for the exam . . . Summarizing readings, transcribing lectures, flash cards, etc. If AI preps the student, what message are we sending about learning?

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

"'AI' is not your friend. Nor is it an intelligent tutor, an empathetic ear, or a helpful assistant. It can not 'make up' facts, and it does not make 'mistakes'. It does not actually answer your questions. Such anthropomorphizing language, however, permeates the public discussion of so-called artificial intelligence technologies. The problem with anthropomorphic descriptions is that they risk masking important limitations of probabilistic automation systems, which make them fundamentally different from human cognition."

Important essay by @emilymbender and @NannaInie. Link below.

[Lauren Wagner @typewriters]

My year in review is a little essay about AI benchmarks and the politics of measurement

Thanks to @arcprize, @Stanford, @mmitchell_ai , @patrick__house and the global network of AI safety institutes for the inspiration and a productive 2025

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Very important piece in The Times today, saying the UK government should be “protecting [the] creative sector from AI theft”.

Well worth reading the whole thing ⬇️

Some quotes:

“Compensation is precisely the issue about which the government claims to be consulting. Yet the mind of a senior adviser to the relevant minister is already made up, in favour of caving in to the ­bullying demands of Big Tech.”

“The hope was that Ms Kendall would not share the craven attitude of Peter Kyle, her predecessor, towards the AI behemoths. Her appointment of Kirsty Innes, sadly, does not bode well for the negotiation of a fair solution to a serious injustice.”

https://t.co/MHeS9ylZMk

[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

A truly, colossally, bad take. In ancient times, the absence of a single author contributed to human agency by elevating the art of storytelling. AI does precisely the opposite—from its unethical sourcing & other exploitative labor practices to its replacement of the human voice.

[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

Great🧵. Calli is exactly right that we need to invert the current AI paradigm. Rather than unethically building general purpose models, we need ethically sourced specific purpose models developed to address identified problems in consultation with people working in the field.

[Vijay Ramjattan @Vijay_Ramjattan]

I will be facilitating a workshop on rethinking the teaching of listening in relation to anti-racist pronunciation pedagogies at the TESL Toronto 2025 Conference: https://t.co/R7BkmrAyAA

Hope to see some of you there!

[Marc Watkins @Marc__Watkins]

We held our fourth university-wide AI institute for faculty. There's a growing realization that the technology isn’t going to be policed away, fizzle out, or go the way of MOOCs. Faculty and students want to talk about how AI impacts learning.

[Vijay Ramjattan @Vijay_Ramjattan]

There is no such thing as an inherently "intelligible" or "unintelligible accent" because intelligibility is something that is *created* through interaction.

[Dorothea Baur (Dr.) @DorotheaBaur]

LLMs don't "distinguish between fact and fiction." "They are not... designed to tell the truth. Yet they are implemented in many sectors where truth and detail matter, such as education, science, health, the media, law, and finance” @SandraWachter5 https://t.co/e1YhzLZrZv

[Marc Watkins @Marc__Watkins]

@emollick I'm deeply concerned many of my colleagues in education are forgoing any critical conversation about AI with students. I'm not talking about bans, I'm saying no one is talking about it with students in the one space we need to discuss it most.

[AICAD @AICArtDesign]

The AICAD Symposium is an annual gathering dedicated to advancing teaching and learning in art and design, bringing together educators, researchers, students, and thought leaders.
Interested in proposing a session? -> https://t.co/OBu9spfU1h

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

If you don’t know about language justice, this is the time to learn. The Trump administration will literally kill people by making it illegal to provide critical information and services in languages they understand.

[Vijay Ramjattan @Vijay_Ramjattan]

Education is always political.

[Vijay Ramjattan @Vijay_Ramjattan]

I will be facilitating a workshop on academic accentism and the politics of listening at Queen's University next week:

https://t.co/xIZrp7CAbN