Dr. Lora Taub

BREAKING: @aaup_penn’s response to @Penn admin’s threat to shut down peaceful protests. “Do not escalate the situation. Do not violate the rights of students & faculty. Remember that the actions you choose to take today will be your legacy.” aaup-penn.org/response-to-pe…

What if universities responded to AI hype with confidence in their core mission rather than FOMO?

“Automated scoring machine.” Automating assessment is a sure sign the measure of learning is inequitable by design.

New work by @lucipangrazio on some of the harms of education data: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Whatever good AI can do in/for higher ed (and outside of predatory business models, no one has explained how higher ed will benefit), will be offset by the harms it will do. Those harms will be especially felt by students.

What does AI actually promise to contribute to higher ed? It is the latest Silicon Valley enterprise to extract labor from students, faculty & staff and monetize their data. Handing over students’ data to tech billionaires is antithetical to my responsibilities as a professor.

If we really believed any longer that higher ed is not simply the pursuit of knowledge but also inquiry into the nature of knowledge and its relationship to power, we might know how / where to begin questioning AI and it’s so-called inevitable digital futures.

On campus and in higher ed press, we hear talk of AI as the inevitable reality of teaching and learning in the digital age. Tech inevitablism eschews the critical, historical thinking and imagination that the liberal arts purports to cultivate.

These systems are not designed for any of the practices and values we lift up as central to teaching and learning in a democratic society.

What / who is higher education for? “This is not safe for students.” - Chris Gilliard #resistedtech #surveillancetech mlive.com/news/grand-rap…

Don’t make students unconsenting participants in AI experiments. #resistedtech #resistsurveillancetech #unethicaledtech podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mys…

“The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.” Herb Schiller, 2000.

Capitalism’s proponents often defend it by pointing to the virtues of markets. But capitalism isn’t defined by the presence of markets — it’s defined by capitalists’ domination of workers. jacobin.com/2023/11/capita…

Harvard's new advisory group on antisemitism elevates political concerns over academic integrity, writes editor-at-large @PeterBeinart. jewishcurrents.org/harvard-is-ign…

"Humanisation of higher education: Re-imagining the university together with students" by Patric Wallin. Read now from the latest #OpenAccess issue of Learning and Teaching: bit.ly/43rdDfv

I’m dusting off a mastadon account opened years ago and happy some here have already found me there. Also spinning wheels (pottery wheels) here at ig: @lorataubstdio

@floatingtim 😃

@actualham @SusSolutions !

@salome_viljoen_ @gracabi I would add @Vmosco to this list

@gracabi I mean there is so much ! Others please chime in b/c I'll miss stuff, but as a starting point...

If I could suggest one thing to legal scholars interested in the political economy of information production (information as wealth, information as power, etc), it would be to take the time to read the classics! Dan Schiller, Oscar Gandy Jr., J Beninger, etc.

@WittTwitt @tinebeest @aardizzoia The LMS is already a highly commercialized space. I would not be comfortable with my courses being direct advertising sites. Not what students signed up for.

@tinebeest @aardizzoia @ltaub Fwiw, i had in mind a Cameo-Canvas integration to embed paid third party messages in Canvas.

A new Canvas integration??