I created a #HighLow (high interest, low reading level) book for adult #EnglishLearners. I plotted, directed, edited, and did some of the writing. #LLMs helped me plan, did some checking, and, yes, did a lot of the "writing".
I'm an #ESOL / #ESL #teacher. I want to provide #EducationalMaterials for my students. I want to get affordable #books into my students' hands.
Includes #AI content, so #PublicDomain / CC0.
(Book coming soon; have to get it internet ready.)
Copyright exceptions in Canadian education aren’t a loophole, they’re essential
https://theconversation.com/copyright-exceptions-in-canadian-education-arent-a-loophole-theyre-essential-207559
Recent op-eds about Canadian copyright law call on the Canadian government to stop allowing uncompensated copying in education.
At the end of May, an op-ed in The Globe and Mail described the current state of affairs regarding copyright and education as “the legalized robbery of Canadian authors by the education sector.”
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Experimental instrumentation doesn't have to be expensive: Frank Loesche @fra_loe in the Reiser lab at #HHMIJanelia build "a complete ~$300 system, including a cold-anesthesia tethering stage, that is ideal for hands-on teaching laboratories." And released all the CAD files and software as open source. How cool is that:
"We replaced expensive optomechanical and custom machined components with off-the-shelf and 3D-printed parts, and built the system around a low-cost camera that achieves 180 Hz imaging and an inexpensive tablet computer to present view-angle-corrected stimuli updated through a local network."
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.689573/full
Could easily be put to good use to modernize hands-on labs at the undergrad level, perhaps also at the senior high school level.
To pursue a more mechanistic understanding of the neural control of behavior, many neuroethologists study animal behavior in controlled laboratory environments. One popular approach is to measure the movements of restrained animals while presenting controlled sensory stimulation. This approach is especially powerful when applied to genetic model organisms, such as Drosophila melanogaster, where modern genetic tools enable unprecedented access to the nervous system for activity monitoring or targeted manipulation. While there is a long history of measuring the behavior of body- and head-fixed insects walking on an air-supported ball, the methods typically require complex setups with many custom components. Here we present a compact, simplified setup for these experiments that achieves high-performance at low cost. The simplified setup integrates existing hardware and software solutions with new component designs. We replaced expensive optomechanical and custom machined components with off-the-shelf and 3D-printed parts, and built the system around a low-cost camera that achieves 180 Hz imaging and an inexpensive tablet computer to present view-angle-corrected stimuli updated through a local network. We quantify the performance of the integrated system and characterize the visually guided behavior of flies in response to a range of visual stimuli. In this paper, we thoroughly document the improved system; the accompanying repository incorporates CAD files, parts lists, sourc...
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As a secondary point its often the greatest, most motivated and brightest of #ChangeAgents who would benefit their countries the most by staying.
We instead look to the likes of the late #AaronSwartz who was motivated to place #educationalMaterials into the hands of people globally, using the tools of #theInternet.
Why should one part of earth be most conducive to success?
Imagine the benefits of an #Apple developing in a place like #Syria!
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