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What does effective AI integration in college courses actually look like? The Chronicle conducted a nationwide survey of more than 850 faculty members and academic leaders and conducted in-depth interviews to find out. The result is a new report: “The Emerging Multimedia Classroom: How AI Is Changing Course Design and Delivery.” Learn how innovative faculty are reimagining instruction with AI, and get practical insights for your own classroom: An anthropology professor uses AI to generate historical visualizations, turning them into teachable moments about digital literacy. A language instructor created a virtual conversation partner that gives students 24/7 practice opportunities. A writing professor employs AI to help students craft audience personas and refine their work using iterative prompting. A social sciences professor uses AI to generate songs that make complex concepts memorable. These pioneers aren't just experimenting — they're thoughtfully integrating AI to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.

I'm sorry, but looking at the 4 examples of "emerging" classroom "innovations" sent to me in this email, I'm like nope, nope, nope, nope. As for their being "pioneers" who are enhancing student learning... I lean more toward their being "suckers" who are ultimately undermining learning.

I am amused (?) by those who once rejected a certain popular book/movie series for being anti-Christian who are now embracing same said materials now that the author has made their politics known…

"We're doing the studies to make the proof."

This is not how Gold Standard Science works. Or any science. You do the study to TEST THE HYPOTHESIS, not to prove yourself right.

I teach in my undergrad class on the history of the US jury system that the institution's roots are in colonial juries serving as a counterweight to abuses of imperial power. The American jury has problems for sure but still can serve that roll. Don't blow off jury service.

This is beautiful.

Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics.

Because good statistics is not about producing code.

It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.

I can't emphasize enough how much everyone being like "nah" can shift the whole thing. If we all collectively said "nah" today, this whole thing would begin screeching to a halt.

The issue here is you got folks trying to sympathize with bigots and the messes with all of us saying "nah".

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

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It's the same thing in Northern Virginia.

Panel 1 A figure stands at a lectern "This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything." The screen is completely packed with such things Panel 2,3,4,5. Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"

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The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

This Brewers pitcher is a BABY, does he even shave? Is his mom watching and being like, he needs a good meal or two? Isn’t he pitching past his bedtime OMG

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Someday really soon simply tagging you in a post that I share will get my flagged. lol*sob

This was fascinating.

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

this will only continue to escalate, they want a civil war

18yo daughter: Mom, stop, you’re grown.
Me, internally: AM I? I AM PERIMENAPAUSAL AND I HAVENT FELT THIS OUT OF CONTROL SINCE PUBERTY DONT TELL ME IM GROWN

Screenshots of the Fellou interface while its browser agent is in progress on a research task prompted by the user. (A) and (B) represent windows with multiple browser tabs open to searches. Each tab in these windows shows rapidly changing thumbnails of the websites, articles (including PDFs), and other materials that Fellou is currently searching and analyzing. A panel at the right of each window shows a partial view of the kinds of sources and topics Fellou has planned to search in response to the user’s prompt. (C) is a window showing a periodically refreshed report on progress so far. In this window, the panel at the left shows in separate blocks some of the kinds of sources and topics that Fellou plans to search. The wide panel in the center summarizes results. And the panel at the right shows in blocks the specific sources and key phrases currently being “deep searched.”

My blog post reporting on testing the use of agentic AI (the Fellou.ai browser) to start a research project on gathering definitions of the humanities: “Humanities Definitions Research Project: An Experiment with Agentic AI” (liu.english.ucsb.edu/humanities-d...).

So proud of myself - I only thrifted two thing I didn't need: a leather purse and a pair of Cole Haan boots.

America’s top censor—so far Woodrow Wilson’s postmaster put papers out of business and jailed journalists. The tools he used still exist.

I regret to inform you that in addition to the collapse of Reconstruction and the Red Scare we all need to bone up on how Woodrow Wilson cracked down on journalists and dissenters. We've got you covered, with this piece by Adam Hochschild www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

I really hope someone has written on misogynoir in particular so Jonaya and I can cite it…

THIS MAKES IT SO MUCH WORSE

why are they all so weird??? :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

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Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals

ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...