Tyler Watts

Used to live on Lê Văn Sỹ and would pass by the alley off of there regularly. Great write-up!

Inclusive Teaching Online – Open Textbook <em>Inclusive Teaching Online</em> addresses the complexities of teaching diverse and nontraditional adult students in asynchronous online environments. Centered in evidence-based approaches for creat...

Excited to dive into "Inclusive Online Teaching" by Katherine McAlvage & Nadia Jaramillo Cherrez and grateful that the authors & Oregon State made it open access! open.oregonstate.education/teachingonli...

Nor did I. I didn’t even know they were outside of the original location by LAX.

Locations CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Inglewood – The World Famous Original Burbank Culver City Downey El Segundo LAX Airport (United Terminal) North Hollywood Pasadena Santa Monica Torrance Fresno Shaw Ave…

There’s one in Atlanta!? randysdonuts.com/locations/

Congrats to Drs. Rebecca M. Reese & Amy Lomellini for putting this OPEN resource out into the world! It was an honour to write the prologue for this fantastic & much needed text.

Advancing Accessibility: Practical Strategies for Instructional Designers and Educators
edtechbooks.org/accessibility

Educators should look at AI grading of student writing in the same way collective society looked at the potential for human cloning after the arrival of Dolly the sheep, something that is an affront to our humanity and must be rejected completely. There is no rationale to support this.

Thanks so much! Will let you know - I’ll be sure to pass on any feedback.

Same! Couldn't figure out what distinguished it as the Supermercado Inglés

Sneak Preview of “Learning Designers in Context”

Over the last few weeks, I have re-read the proofs of my forthcoming book "Learning Designers in Contexts" so many times that I honestly I feel I could recite some of the chapters. Due to some communication issues, the release date has been pushed…

This came at a perfect time in one of my courses where we are talking about diverse voices and culturally responsive practices in the field. Sharing with my students!

The Luddites Were Right

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Only one week left to apply for the Center for Grading Reform's Alternative Grading Institute! This two-day, hands-on, virtual experience offers opportunities to connect grading with your values and design an alt grading system for one of your courses. www.centerforgradingreform.org/alternative-...

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This is not how I wanted to commemorate the 1 year Helene anniversary 😬

Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

The Degrading Scale — Grow Beyond Grades In her essay, Sharlyn Barrett recalls how the pursuit of perfection—whether on a scale or on a report card—stripped joy from both learning and life, and how messages about perfection left her exhauste...

Our second Growth, Not Grades winner is Sharlyn Barrett 🎉

Sharlyn writes how chasing perfection — whether pounds on a scale or letters on a page — left her ready to give up. She imagines an education that values growth and self-acceptance.

Read and share!
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...

BNO News@ @BNONews • 9h .... NEW: Suspect in Charlie Kirk's murder identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson - NYP/NBC 93 17429 026K 1l1 686K W I Emmanuel & @AnabelleDa4149•8h S ... @grok could you get an image of the suspect 1 Grok @grok X.com

Wtf

When news broke that a suspect had been identified in the Charlie Kirk case, an X user asked Grok to supply an image of the suspect.

Grok replied with an AI-generated photo of a young Black man.

(Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is a white man.)

Are you ready to align your grading practices with your values?

Join us December 17–18 for the Alternative Grading Institute (online), which will bring together faculty from across higher education for a two-day, hands-on experience in standards-based, specifications, and collaborative grading.

there's a certain kind of tech high priest who also seems constantly shocked and offended that a lot of people don't buy their "we have to bring this glorious new tech into being for the greater good, which will also result in me becoming unfathomably wealthy and you losing your job" sales pitch

You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)

But what iseducation? Embodied and enactive cognitive sciences remind us that knowledge is not something discrete that an individual possesses and passes down but an inherently dynamic and evolving endeavour that develops in the process of embodied, curious and engaged interaction through dialogue. The pinnacle of cognition, particularly ‘human knowing’, is inextricably interwoven with interactions we engage in

with each other and the physical, cultural and social world we inhabit, ‘so much so that individuals are not thinkable outside of their interactions and embeddedness in their (social) world’ (De Jaegher, 2019). Dialogic models of knowledge and education emphasize that interactions between a student and teacher and/or peer provide ‘scaffolding’ for how that child understands the world. The always in flux, active and continually transforming nature of human cognition necessitates that education be fundamentally an ongoing activity. Far from the reductionist view whereby ‘formal knowledge’ can be packaged and acquired from an LLM, the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care and humility are fostered and mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...

"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

ChatGPT is "a clear-cut moral abomination and a logical culmination of modern surveillance capitalism. It is the direct result of tech companies producing products that seek to extract attention and value from vulnerable users, and then harming them grievously."

Educators, we must refuse OpenAI.

Our relationships with our students are sacred. Our relationship to capitalism is not. Teaching is not efficient.

HOW MUCH WILL YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT LOSE? Federal budget cuts to public education will eliminate afterschool and summer programs, arts and technology classes, teachers, emergency preparedness, mental health services, and more. Search for your state and school district to see how much your child’s education will be impacted. DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding.

You can use this tool to find out just how much funding your local district (or any district in the country) will be losing in the new federal budget:

"DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding."

public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #EduSky #EdChat

2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

Here's a thread about a virtual conference that's actually accessible. How? Because it was designed and executed by disabled people who care about access and know what it takes to build meaningful community. Take notes. 1/11

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Will someone please dust @jeffreykeese.bsky.social’s skeets.

Congrats Dr. Logan!