From #ParableoftheSower to #VforVendetta, A Succinct #Syllabus for the #Revolution
A short list of #books, #movies, and #games to foster #solidarity in the face of extreme #opposition.
https://www.them.us/story/parable-of-the-sower-v-for-vendetta-radical-syllabus-books-movies-games
As it's syllabus writing season again, here's my informed take on why students should *not* use large language models for social science writing.
I took the time to try prompt engineering in response to my own assignments, and it led nowhere good.
Braggy braggy moment: I have put together syllabi for fall, and there's still a week before my first class!
Am drinking beer and watching a movie to celebrate. It has been a haaaaaaard five days. But I'm especially pleased for my sophomore class, which makes MUCH more sense than my first time through it. And it has almost 100% different repertoire. Go figure.
The AI course policy collection has a lot of interesting examples in it. I figured I'd share some reflections about the collection as a whole:
https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/ai-syllabi-policies-a-look-at-the
#ChatGPT #AIEdu #AIEducation #EdTech #Academia #HigherEd #Teaching #Learning #Syllabus
Very excited by my new graduate course which will make use of a surfeit of new English language books dealing with Seediq history and culture and the Musha Incident 霧社事件 in particular. I think it will be a lot of fun to teach and exciting for the students as well.
What's a favorite course syllabi policy?
One of mine: Due Diligence (5% of final grade)
"...entails being familiar with relevant course materials before asking the instructor about it. For example, you should read the syllabus before asking about grading and do the reading, complete [homework], make notes, etc. before ...office hours ...."
Students score EXTRA due diligence points if they do *my* due diligence (e.g., showing me a typo on my #syllabus).
I always put my #syllabi freely online, and as term gets underway you can find my half-year module in Internet Law and Policy at UCL Laws here (almost all #OpenAccess) here. It's usually 20 weeks not 10 weeks but I have an eagerly awaited sabbatical in Term 2. Please share yours if you have one! https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/syllabi/ilp_half.html #syllabus #internetLaw
ICYMI with the semester about to start, colleagues are of course talking about this
Should You Add an #AI Policy to Your #Syllabus?
https://www-chronicle-com.proxy2.hampshire.edu/article/should-you-add-an-ai-policy-to-your-syllabus
I am pleased to note that, in its suggestions for further reading, the article observes:
"Higher-ed futurist Bryan Alexander has compiled the most comprehensive online list" @bryanalexandee
I’ve found this #syllabus workload estimator really useful as a check on myself. I want to make sure I’m balancing my assignments and giving students enough time to digest. I want deep learning not grinding away. https://shiny.justinesarey.com/wfuworkloadapp/ #college #teaching
Just submitted my #syllabus for "Women in Architecture" (ARTH 4800) at #CarletonUniversity #Ottawa for this Fall term.
Please help to spread word to students who might be interested. Relevant for students in #architecture, #geography, #sociology, #genderStudies ...
Also happy to connect with others teaching similar courses or who want to include the topic in core course
A #Queer #Syllabus for the #Writers and #Actors #Strike.
We’ve now past 110 days of the 2023 #WritersGuildofAmerica (#WGA) #Strike, a milestone that now makes it the third longest running #WritersStrike in #history and has finally brought the #AllianceofMotionPictureandTelevision #Producers (AMPTP) back to a #negotiating #table after months of a near #standoff
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Movies #Representation #Culture
https://www.autostraddle.com/a-queer-syllabus-for-the-writers-and-actors-strike/
Just finished my new #syllabus policy on #GenerativeAI. Feeling only *vaguely* sure about it. #AmTeaching
if you're looking for ideas for your #Syllabus about #GenerativeAI, we got over 50 examples in this crowdsourced document: https://bit.ly/AI-Syllabi
#HigherEd #AIEducation #Teaching #Learning #EdTech #Academia #ChatGPT @edutooters @academicchatter
Happy to share my chapter, with translations from #Arabic and #Russian, on Chechen refugee migration in the gorgeous sourcebook Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History, edited by Margaret Litvin, Eileen Kane, and Masha Kirasirova.
“Population Transfer: Negotiating the Resettlement of Chechen Refugees in the Ottoman Empire (1865, 1870),” pp. 60-68. https://academic.oup.com/book/46574/chapter-abstract/408283820
In 1865, #Russia organized the transfer of over 23,000 #Muslims (Chechens, some Ingush, Kabardians, Ossetians) out of the #Caucasus.
One of the documents that I translated (with Khalid Obeid) is a fascinating 1870 petition to the #Ottoman government by Jantemir, a #Chechen #refugee leader in Ra’s al-‘Ayn in northern #Syria. See the original image here: https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780197605769/res/ch6/
If you would like a copy of the chapter, please drop me a message.
This set of translated primary sources would make an awesome primary source assignment for an UG #syllabus on the #MiddleEast, the Ottoman Empire, or #migration.
New #syllabus language: "[Plagarism...]... Other forms of academic misconduct will not be tolerated either, including the use of unauthorized aid on tests, failing to write one's own homework, discussion responses, or papers (including the use of AI/AGI/LLMs such as ChatGPT), using papers for more than one course without permission. None of this precludes group study and discussion: those are actually really good ideas."
#Pedagogy
a few folks asked & so, of course, I decided to share with all. Here's my #syllabus for the course I recently taught on #AI & #Education. It has a #CreativeCommons license so it is free to share & adapt!
https://bit.ly/CU-AI-Education
#HigherEd #Edtech #AIEducation #Teaching #Learning #AcademicChatter @edutooters @academicchatter
This week on Stained Glass Woman, I've got something unusual for y'all: a seven-year research project looking at #syllabus #design that I couldn't get published in any peer-reviewed journal. It's my hope that anyone who's a #teacher or works in #TechnicalWriting / #TechComms can make use of the research I did, peer reviewed or no.
And if you're here for my stuff on gender, don't worry--we're gonna dive into Judith Butler next week!
https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/student-engagement-from-the-syllabus?sd=pf
Yes, I just read that - it's a very useful exposition about what really happened in these "exams". Unfortunately, that doesn't mean ChatGPT is _not_ able to pass most of our exams. Because, disturbingly often it does. And if that would not be the case, we wouldn't need to be worried about it.
The reality is: we need to rethink assessment, and to do that we need to be clear about our teaching objectives. I write about here: https://sentientsyllabus.substack.com/p/how-much-is-too-much
But @melaniemitchell 's article is important for our attempts to separate the signal from the noise.
What’s in your Online Course #Syllabus?
Free webinar on 2/8/23 12:00pm ET. Registration required: https://sunycpd.eventsair.com/sot-sp-23
SUNY Online Teaching has developed an #OSCQR-informed online course syllabus template that is openly licensed for anyone to use/adapt. #ItIsInTheSyllabus
#OnlineLearning #OnlineEducation
#OnlineTeaching #EdToot #EdTooters @edutooters
