Lucy Appert

Director, Educational Technology, New York University Faculty of Arts & Sciences

[Apereo Foundation @Apereo]

EU/US regulations impacting OSS in HigherEd (see below)

@MGuerin_LR @boetapretoriu @AMayeur @susudancer @Lucyappert @amberg1 @cherybrown @dfj3684 @pointful @lgekeler @mzrascoff @calisurf @jimhelwig @xolotl @joshbaron6

Registration info: conference(a)https://t.co/p2HN5se4KL

[Anna Mills, annamillsoer.bsky.social, she/her @AnnaRMills]

Turnitin should be required to share GPT-4-updated, peer-reviewed studies of the accuracy of their AI text detection tool, including the false positive rate, before releasing it. Unacceptable that we are supposed to take their word that it has fewer than 1% false positives.

[The Learning Analytics Research Network @NYU_LEARN]

🌟Today is the day! Join us at 2pm ET for a special interactive @NYU_LEARN event to hear about the latest advances in modeling students’ programming from @shoha99 + dialogue about how this can support instruction!🌟

Registration link below
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[Lucy Appert @Lucyappert]

@BryanAlexander @notjessewalker The “Legs are coming soon” chorus is maybe the saddest part.

[Xavier Ochoa @xaoch]

Alyssa Wise @alywise and Andrew Brackett (NYU) presenting an example of research - practitioner partnership in the Scalable Experiences sessions at #lak23

[Lucy Appert @Lucyappert]

Great projects by current and future teachers to engage learners in journalism, fine arts, language acquisition, creative writing, and more from our async prof development NYU A&S grad student cohort. Check them out here: https://t.co/uDLD0uUDR3 #teaching #edtech #highered #NYU

[Anna Mills, annamillsoer.bsky.social, she/her @AnnaRMills]

Seeking feedback from MLA and CCCC members! The Modern Language Association (MLA) and Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) have collaborated to form a Task Force on AI and Writing. 1/

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

ChatGPT's latest version, GPT-4, is now available and Microsoft is planning to put it *inside* MS Word.

But most academics still don't know how to use these apps smartly.

Here are five ways you can use ChatGPT intelligently for teaching and academic purposes (prompts included):

[Lucy Appert @Lucyappert]

My former colleagues at Columbia are hiring! Fantastic opportunity to work with amazing people -- please share: https://t.co/Ts1SuwA6yf #learningdesign #highered #instructionaldesign #edtech

[Sarah Dillard @dillardsarah]

Of the four core subjects, the ambitions of high school math are the highest but also the most misplaced.

What high school math could be, a 🧵:

[Kelly Matthews @kellymatthewsUQ]

Register now for the Students as Partners Roundtable! Students and staff/faculty coming together to share practices. Free, online, open to all. Amazing program, brilliant hosts at Sunshine Coast Uni, Australia.
https://t.co/FN5Y9wCnts

[Pranay Aryal @aryalpranays]

@fchollet But GitHub is using code to train their copilot model for free and then pay walling it

[btopro seeks ubiquity @btopro]

taught a enterprise technology integration course on Friday about Git. It is always bittersweet being in the classroom. Bitter seeing I'm still off the books, probably for good through a clause that is worthy of a book on the illogical state of higher education, sweet is being me

[Matt Rockman @wormsrock]

I taught genetics to literally these exact NYU students. My class was HARD — transmission genetics, quant, pop, stat, lots of difficult material. The students learned it just fine. Maybe the students are not the problem? https://t.co/k51yX17H7p

[Carmofon Lab @carmofonlab]

As an @nyuniversity professor, teaching the students mentioned in this article, I feel I should weigh in. I am not writing this to defend the University or their decision, but my students. (1/8)

[James DeVaney @DeVaneyGoBlue]

Looking forward to this @UMichOnline event!

[EdTech Hub @GlobalEdTechHub]

Very excited to present a new blog series on Decolonisation of EdTech. Up first is a resource list compiled by @TaskeenAdam & crowdsourced right here on Twitter to help researchers ask 'whose knowledge are you elevating and whose are you suppressing? https://t.co/h6lXBuljNO

[Apereo Foundation @Apereo]

#Apereo Summer 2022 Newsletter!

- New officers
- Dolphin Awards
- Open Apereo 2022 videos.
- Project updates
and more.

Thank you Michelle Hall (@Michell14737586), Lucy Appert (@Lucyappert), and Kathy Azevedo (@karazev) for all your great work.

More at:
https://t.co/HF6d3LuJja