Blayn Parkinson

L&D staff face challenges supporting colleagues with GenAI. The anxiety around these tools is often intensified by stern institutional language (e.g compliance training). Let's foster positive engagement by encouraging creativity and productivity, not just compliance! #PositiveAIAdoption #HigherEd

Gen AI: Do the Locomotion Professor Kevin Ashford-Rowe, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching), Queensland University of Technology

History is littered with the stories of once-successful companies that failed to adapt and innovate. Kodak, Blockbuster, Polaroid, and Compaq are just a few. I feel that AI is the technological leap that education will struggle with.

Gen AI: Do the Locomotion open.substack.com/pub/neededno...

Sky must stop funding hate speech CW: Homophobia, hate speech Sky launched its programme for Pride 2024 with a ringing declaration the company was “proud to celebrate LGBTQ+ stories”. But while it was posting shiny videos claiming to ...

I’ve demanded that Sky stops buying ads and funding hate on GB News. Join me and @GoodLawProject now to increase the pressure goodlaw.social/st08

Along with the development opportunities and resourcing for Third Space staff to develop scholarship activities. There is a barrier for those staff members who haven't arrived via an academic route.

Echo chamber my arse. When I go to the pub for a quiet drink I sit with a couple of good friends and we have a nice chat.

I don't feel the need to take a couple of racist twats to have them call me a cunt all evening for a bit of balance.

Twitter can get fucked.

Quote of the day 😄 That deserves a follow.

It's a growing point of conversations across the educational sector (rightly so), though for many, the impact of AI is like trying to ride an avalanche whilst convincing yourself and others It's business as usual. Staff are overwhelmed, and guidance is thin on the ground.

After walking away from Twitter (X) a year ago it feels good to find somewhere with meaningful and considered conversion again The Sunday morning coffee, bacon butty and scroll of enlightenment has returned; how I have missed you... hail one and all 🖖 😀

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

After a depressing week in the news; this is a ray of karmic joy.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...