ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@qoto.org

Universities are worrying about how to deal with "AI" That's the wrong question. The right question is how to assess what really matters. Marks for critical analysis, not writing style.

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Capitalism breeds innovation: https://streetartutopia.com/capitalism-breeds-innovation/

Obesity pay gap: Well educated workers are penalized for their weight. But women have it worse. Obese men w/ bachelors degree earn 5% less than thinner colleagues; those w/ grad degree earn 14% less. Women's w/ bachelors earn 12% less; grad degree=19% less.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/obesity-pay-gap-worse-previously-111354804.html

My fly-on-the-wall observations on AI and higher education (at least teaching and learning) is that most universities really do not know what to do. Many do not have integrated policies. Most professors don't really know what it is about.

Profs need training, procedural and pedagogical. Universities should be spearheading the response. However, that is not what I see.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/after-year-chatgpt-academia-getting-grips-generative-ai

#AcademicChatter #AI #HigherEducation #Pedagogy @academicchatter

For the first time in 20 years, the NBA began its season with no Black-owned franchises. In fact, there’s been only one Black majority-owned team in league history

A century ago, one of the top pre-NBA professional franchises began play in Harlem thanks to the efforts of a Black business owner named Bob Douglas.

The #history of the New York Rens:
https://theconversation.com/a-century-ago-a-black-owned-team-ruled-basketball-today-no-black-majority-owners-remain-213439

@histodons #Histodons #Sports #Basketball

Need a gift for colleagues at work? Or a woman experiencing gender bias? Or a new college graduate? Or for yourself? GLASS WALLS is a fascinating read about the barriers women experience at work and how to shatter them. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is offering 35% discount with code 23JOYSALE when ordered from their website: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538170960/Glass-Walls-Shattering-the-Six-Gender-Bias-Barriers-Still-Holding-Women-Back-at-Work

If you want to talk about violence in the prison system, what we can do to reduce it, and how it is morally reprehensible for prosecutors to use that violence as a way to get Black people to confess to crimes that everyone knows that they did not commit? Then I'm with you.

But if you want to talk specifically about how we can keep Derek Chauvin safe? How we can keep the inhumane, brutal system for innocent Black folk, but protect him from it? Miss me with that. Talk to somebody else.

Residents of Key West, Florida voted to limit cruise ships to 1500 passengers a day. This upset the wealthy pier operator, so he donated $1 million to Ron DeSantis’s campaign. DeSantis repaid the favor by signing a bill to overturn the local residents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/us/key-west-cruise-ships-desantis.html

Scene from an education conference I attended: school administrators at a fancy multi-course luncheon cheerfully comparing the number of free-or-reduced-lunch students in their respective districts

Michigan is poised to adopt the first law in the nation to automatically register people to vote as they leave prison. The bill, adopted this month by lawmakers, now sits on the governor's desk. https://boltsmag.org/michigan-automatic-voter-registration-prison/

#history #thanksgiving #meme #psychology #sociology

Fleury's mask honoring Native Americans nixed https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/38970420/nhl-nixes-marc-andre-fleury-mask-honoring-native-americans?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NHL #SchwartziesSports

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If you've been noticing an uptick in laws proposed and often passed, that are criminalizing nearly all forms of protest, it's because the oil companies are paying politicians to make the peaceful fight against climate change impossible. #environment
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/study-fossil-fuel-industry-lobbying-anti-protest-bills/

Opportunities to participate in an Emerge Book Circle experience, or learn how to facilitate one from the lovely Theresa Destrebecq
offered through Equity Unbound
(books we may read include Art if Gathering & Emergent Strategy)
Register here if planning to commit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/equity-unbound-book-circle-fallwinter-2023-tickets-755572396377?aff=oddtdtcreator

"young people can't buy homes because they'd rather buy big fancy TVs"

I am begging older generations to understand that televisions have gone from "a thing that costs 4 months' salary" to "a thing you get for free when your roommate moves and can't be bothered to take it"

AI tools are billed as time-savers for educators, but what are we "saving time" for, anyway? Chris & Nick put AI-powered robograders to the test to see what, if anything, they are good for. Does an AI generated essay pass the robograder? https://youtu.be/UX5DfqtgXEI #restorehumanity