@janetifimust.bsky.social
Professor of Education. Parent/family engagement in learning is my research area. Dedicated to schooling and education that are just, equitable, available and lead to a better world. My views are mine, not my employer's.
I'm not entirely sure I could spot every instance of AI in a thesis but I'm pretty certain I could spot someone who's presenting a thesis they hadn't written - that's one of the three things a defence is for...
For general purposes, yes - but for doctorates and academic work that's peer reviewed, unless they use AI for reviews (and I suspect some will but I hope the reputable ones, won't), the process still relies on humans.
That depends on reviewers - like the PhD/EdD/DMecEng/etc depends on vivas. If journals use AI to do reviews, yes, I think we're in trouble. If humans - WELL TRAINED humans - are still on board, not so much. Some will get through of course but not as much as if it's ALL AI.
Gotta love a reference to the Malleus :)
If I have not recommended the Global Mandala company, for clothing, allow me to do so now. I have more of their dresses than I like to admit. They are cut well, THEY HAVE POCKETS, they are sized so that a wide range of sizes can wear the same dress...
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This. I didn't always do that till someone explained to me why it was important for those using assistance to hear..
Or honour heroes... which is fine, but it's not idolatry and nor is the cult of the saints.... (in the old fashioned, Latin term of cultus, not the modern 'omb it's a CULT' form of the word)
Oh, here, too....Teaching the history of the Bible to people who thought Catholics were not, and could not be, Christians was ... interesting.
I think that law is a wee bit older than the 95 theses....
Many of us have only one or two languages (raises hand, shamefacedly). That needn't impact on our views of children and families that have more skills than we do.
And a bugbear for me - a student has another language rather than English as their first language? CELEBRATE the multilingual ability. That student can think thoughts that can't be thought in English - because we don't have a word for some things that other languages do have words for.
More on #parentalengagement Count the wins and start from assets. Only four parents came to something? Celebrate those four - and suggest they bring friends next time.
Friday is being rather Monday. I've just panicked as a meeting I set up for 10 wasn't in my diary - but the others involved tell me it's at 2, and it's sitting RIGHT THERE in my diary.
And now my LinkedIn is displaying ... in French? Which I can sort of read but not that well and why?
Thoughts on
Kindness 💭
And the book gifting programme is amazing..
Sundayish sort of Sunday. More organising of the office space - I'm terribly untidy at the best of times but now almost all random wool is corralled into soft clear plastic cubes that zip up and stack; I've found lots of stuff that's been missing for ages... small wins but I'll take 'em.
I'm sorry you're not well! Are there not places that deliver around you? Here, Just eat and Uber will deliver just about anything, including groceries?
Item - have had a refresher driving lesson. Was pretty good - only one small panic, no crashes, etc. Calling it a win.
Item - office rearranged again, all getting better. Also a win.
Item - SinL requested a hat for small terrier person... Why, yes, that is the same wool as vest for DH...
Also, I ran across this on a blog and it is amusing me no end.. (here hodges-model.blogspot.com/2016/03/fiel...
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There is, I believe, an XKCD comic that comes after this one - xkcd.com/435/ - that has philosophers outside asking why people are in a box - but I can't find it?
Happy birthday! And you are not old. :)
Change is actually possible.
They were designed in an age when 'academic' equated to white, male, middle or upper class, with at the very least a wife, if not servants to support him. That is no longer the case - so why do we act as though it were?
I rarely go to conferences anymore - they're really not set up for anyone who struggles with walking long distances (or stairs). They are also not set up for carers (which I am not but it's not actually all about me).
And also added performativity - how does one behave 'properly' at a formal dinner?
Yes, there is value in in-person conferences. There is also value in hybrid conferences, which allow both options - this is not an either or. And why for the love of all that is, do we have formal dinners? Dinner, by all means, but formal? Not necessary, and an added expense.
And it struck me strongly. I ended my membership of one group because it insisted on conferences in expensive, non-accessible, difficult to get to by public transport, hotels. Yet we managed to have conferences in lockdown...
The quote is from Hohti, R., & Truman, S. E. (2021). Anglocentrism in the academy: On linguistic privilege, mastery and Hoito. Reconceptualizing educational research methodology, 12(2).
"... conferences are difficult spaces in which academics are required to undertake considerable emotional, physical, and academic labor in attempts to “fit in” & to perform the unspoken rules ... that tend to privilege the White, Western, middle-class unencumbered male academic" (thread)
And it all just takes so much TIME... and recently we've had papers with three rounds of reviews, which I've never encountered before....