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'Stop the Academic Clickbaiting' on the Humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

If we want to avoid just burning the whole humanities “thing” down, we need to start applying some of our fundamental humanities skills in order to communicate better with one another, to actually hear one another’s perspectives, and to build together toward something new rather than tearing each other down.

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Machines can craft essays. How should writing be taught now?

Inside Higher Ed

Paul Fyfe, associate professor of English and the student’s instructor in the Data and the Human course, had asked students to “cheat” in this way and then reflect on how the experiment tested or changed their ideas about writing, AI or humanness. “Silicon Valley is developing them feverishly.”

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5 Reasons that Slack Is Sort Of Growing On Me

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation A few months ago, I wrote a piece called 5 Ways That I’m Bad at Slack. The reality is that higher ed is not going to return to a campus-only work reality. My self-reported Slack failings included: The Mistake of Using Slack Like Email. Having Little Skills in Slack Small Talk.

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How to ChatGPT-proof Analysis Assignments

eLiterate

Let’s also assume that when those students start their jobs, they will continue to use ChatGPT or similar tools to complete their jobs. Because they will.) Is this the end of teaching as we know it? Is this the end of education as we know it? Will we have to accept that robots will think for everyone in the future?

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Paper Belt On Fire – a review

HEPI

This is the gist of the signalling argument about which HEPI has published views before. This book review of Paper Belt On Fire by Michael Gibson was authored by Lucy Haire , HEPI’s Director of Partnerships. If you work in or with universities and colleges, it’s easy to take for granted their raison d’etre.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Compton gets a bad rap for a lot of things that it doesn’t do and what it’s not, but this place was big for me.” LOS ANGELES — Standing at the bustling intersection of North Wilmington Avenue and El Segundo Boulevard in Compton on a recent Tuesday morning, Dr. Tyrone Howard was quickly overcome by nostalgia.

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Is Poetry Dying?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A freshman dormmate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies. A few might know the name of today’s biggest seller, Billy Collins, who some compare to Rod McKuen, the best-selling poet of the late 1960s. I can still quote passages on demand.