Maha Bali, PhD

Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox — Civics of Technology The authors of this week’s blog intersect technoskepticism with disability studies to offer a series of questions that help in evaluating assistive tech.

Such a useful and important article when assessing tech for accessibility

Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox.

Via @civicsoftech.bsky.social www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/disabil...

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Sponsored by the AI Pedagogy Project at Harvard's metaLAB and the Data Nutrition Project, this event is free, open to all, and designed to make AI approachable and relevant for you.

Honored to be giving a keynote with @mahabali.bsky.social alongside @randomwalker.bsky.social, @eryk.bsky.social +

Public AI Summit A dynamic, two-day virtual AI Summit for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can...

Register for a dynamic, free two-day virtual AI Summit August 13-14 for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can leverage these tools in our everyday lives.
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I think you were reading the museum stuff more closely than I was. I never liked physics in school or uni (had to take 5 courses! Got A's, understood nothing!) but still enjoyed CERN very much and more so because you were there!!!

Thanks to my visit to CERN in Geneva last week several of these terms magically make sense to me! 🙌🏾 Shout out to @mahabali.bsky.social who organized our excursion!

Public AI Summit A dynamic, two-day virtual AI Summit for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can...

Excited to co-organize the #PublicAISummit (Aug 13–14) with the Data Nutrition Project + metaLAB (at) Harvard's AI Pedagogy Project!
🎙️ Keynotes by Kathy Pham, @randomwalker.bsky.social, @annamillsoer.bsky.social, @mahabali.bsky.social
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Prompt libraries for higher ed!
Lessons from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's megaprompt!
Lessons from deep collaboration on the @pairrfeedback.bsky.social prompt!

Slides for Let’s Prompt Together: Educators Sharing and Refining AI Prompts, a MyFest presentation
link.annarmills.com/letsprompt

Join us for Vanessa Andreotti & her daughter Giovanna's session on Hospicing and Outgroeing Modernity.

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Typical: white man at an AI conference trying to convince the small group of women and people of color that AI bias isn't that big of a deal, coz all isms are overrated anyway.

The AI Cultural Hallucination Bias Tell me if I’m phrasing this correctly. I think one of the reasons I have conversations with people about AI and we view it very differently is either: There is an AI cultural bias in the hal…

the fab @mahabali.bsky.social has written about this as well. blog.mahabali.me/educational-... The AI Cultural Hallucination Bias – Reflecting Allowed

New aspirational learning outcome for my course: Balance your wellbeing by becoming self-aware of how you can navigate a world that is not that empathetic or equitable, and learn how to build on things like community of peers and other approaches to wellness[already do this-ish, but being explicit]

anyone else notice how ridiculous Google's AI summaries often are? Total BS!!!!

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Don't miss the webinar series on Generative AI in Higher Education and Teacher Education!

"Generative AI, OER, and OEP"
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June 20 @ 08:30 UTC

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🏆 Excited to share that our (yasser atef, @annamillsoer.bsky.social, @mahabali.bsky.social, @mettalrose.bsky.social) article on metaphors shaping AI perceptions won honorable mention for the Ellen Nold Outstanding Article Award by the Computers and Composition journal!

MYFest25 Registration is Open! - MYFest25 Welcome to #MYFest25! This is Equity Unbound’s fourth annual “Mid-Year Festival” (MYFest). Equity Unbound continues to co-create brave spaces and nurture a caring community for life-long-learners ever...

So looking forward to sharing and learning in this year's MYFest!

Who's joining me?

a beloved community dreamed up by @mahabali.bsky.social and Mia Zamora

myfest.equityunbound.org

that is extremely hilarious and... a very unexpected thing! How do you think that might have happened!! We've only like, written two articles together?

Self-Restraint As a Learning Outcome: Yes, We Can, But Should We? (What Matters More Than AI) I want to propose a new learning outcome. It is a meta outcome, with many other things stemming from it. The learning outcome as “self-control” or “self-restraint”. When you…

Self-Restraint As a Learning Outcome: Yes, We Can, But Should We? (What Matters More Than AI)
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...

Want to know more about #MYFest25 via @equityunbound.bsky.social ? Join us May 29th at 4pm UTC for a Taste of MYFest25 session! Meet the community, learn more, share your hopes and questions, bring a friend! Register free: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

On Course Endings, AI Grieving, and Burnout from Humans #MYFest25 So this post is about a few things I did alst week, in a keynote to respond to people who are struggling with AI… and on my last day of class… and how they’re also connected to th…

On Course Endings, AI Grieving, and Burnout from Humans #MYFest25
- blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...
cc @equityunbound.bsky.social

In Episode 2 of our podcast on the ethical use of AI in teaching, Claire Gordon, Maha Bali, Maurice Chiodo, and Emma McCoy debate the issues they encounter integrating AI – consistency, AI skills development among faculty, disciplinary identities and values. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

In our latest podcast, Claire Gordon discusses the ethical use of AI in teaching, learning and assessment with @mahabali.bsky.social, Maurice Chiodo, and Emma McCoy. What responsibility do educators have to their students, the institutions, and themselves?
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

MYFest25 Registration is Open! - MYFest25 Welcome to #MYFest25! This is Equity Unbound’s fourth annual “Mid-Year Festival” (MYFest). Equity Unbound continues to co-create brave spaces and nurture a caring community for life-long-learners ever...

#MYFest25 registration is open!
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Join us for a recharge and renewal experience in June, July, August thinking/talking about teaching and learning with imagination, yes, AI (critical perspectives and more pragmatic perspectives), social justice, wellbeing and joy...

Haven't seen this - have heard about streaming like YouTube and Netflix. What bothers me about defending GenAI environmental impact is that much of what ppl do w GenAI could be done simpler. But if talking to ppl online is a need, Zoom on travel costs (environmental and money).

the article is a really odd rollercoaster - I disagree and was angered by lots of the first half, but I liked the ending parts that are more critical and nuanced.

yes yes me too! It's an emotional and mental rollercoaster of an article! He goes from extreme fascination/positivity to a more critical and nuanced stance to a more pragmatic take on what's needed... I didn't think I'd like it, but in the end, I did

yeah the article is... odd? It has some twists and turns and toggles between being impressed and fascinated with AI and a little critical of it, too? I was more annoyed at the beginning of it and more OK with it towards the end