Holly Dunsworth

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

I was hoping it could help. Whew! Cheers!

New banner for next semester's syllabuses just dropped!

---If you do not imagine yourself doing the work in this class without AI assistance, then please drop this course immediately. It will save everyone the misery of you earning an F for using AI.---

(Grading is going super duper!)

Listen to these amazing colleagues - and please share their message. We should all be united in keeping children safe from preventable diseases.

Would these people like to come to my university and, say, drive generative AI off our campus, thereby transforming our university into the most badass of them all? Or at least as badass as a McDonald's ad?

Thank you, Bluesky, for reading The Chronicle of Higher Education so I don't have to.

Is there a novel like ZatAoMM, except it's about the surreal way that the obsession with knowledge has led to outrageous ignorance about wisdom and how there is no way to get the value of wisdom across to these knowledge-lovers as knowledge, but they may gain it by having to take general education?

Don't be surprised when the next generation of female techbros dress like this:

Ugh. Thanks for sharing this! The one and only time I talked to chatGPT at the inception, I asked one question: How do you change a diaper? I thought that would give me insight into it. All it told me was that it's boring and that there are questions that you are far better off asking by doing.

Guess what, TECHBROS. Heaps of human genius cannot be expressed let alone learned via words on a screen.

P.S., you trained your AI on my 2007 book Human Origins 101 that, in hindsight, has more outdated BULLSHIT than I'd like to admit. And that's just ONE of the MILLIONS you fed your monsters.

How do I tell Bluesky that I'd like my feed to be 95% this?

Jesus

This is going straight into my Narratives of Human Evolution course in the Fall. Thank you!

"There were few people better placed to
know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence
have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the
face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com

Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.

Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.

How and for whom can genetics education reduce beliefs in genetic essentialism? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41267401/
"We also find that the 3 intervention curricula are highly effective across sociodemographic group characteristics [...] we offer evidence-based strategies for curriculum development"

Feeling very old...

A health care industry rag featured a story on how hospitals want to use AI for nursing the day after the administration declares nursing degrees will no longer be considered professional degrees. So there’s the endgame folks.

Same for public education.

“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page "The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:

“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”

“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

This conversation is so frustrating. We’re speaking different languages. I was talking about all the feeling sorry for my students you were doing, but maybe that was just a figure of speech. Sounds like you’ve had a great day! You’re welcome.

awwww. Sorry to ruin your day.

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”

It’s a magnificent book! Congratulations!

The podcasters model the answer to “why” the book would be on a college course syllabus. I’ve just assumed that once people listened to the podcast, then they’d know “why”. Just listen to the podcast, people 😊

Good times

😂

From the start, I did not get the impression that you gave me the benefit of the doubt. And now I see I was right.

Seems isn’t a road to truth.

And back to you with that last sentence