@jpeelle @academicchatter and as a student that has had to suffer through #perusall's bullshit auto-scoring, please, professors: run far, far away.

I never thought I'd be back in the #academia world, but now that I am... I *really* wish I had known about Tree Style Tabs back when I was doing my EE undergrad (assuming it even existed back then). It makes following chains and trees of thought and references super obvious.

#SciHub #LibGen #Perusall

Do you use #Perusall & #Canvas at your Uni? Frustrated with not having good option for auto-graded extra credit assignments in #CanvasLMS?

Perusall now has ability to: (a) Provide auto-graded quizzes inside, and (b) Submit them to Canvas as extra credit out of 0 points.

"There's an algorithm that someone made for this app that grades your work."

--Professor

Great. I'm being graded by an algorithm. It's probably an artificially intelligent one too. Worst. Pedagogy. Ever.

You know what this incentivizes students to do? Highlight the text, tell ChatGPT to "summarize" it, and then paste the result back in. LLMs grading LLMs. And the whole time, no critical thinking or learning is actually happening.

"But the professor can interact with the students and help answer questions or foster discussions!"

I'll give you two guesses as to how often that happens but you'll only need one.

#ArtificialIntelligence #ai #perusall #llm #pedagogy

Gonna think about it a bit more later. Jotting it out for now.

Wonder to what degree research about "mind changing" views it like a "spot trade" in economics.

And if so, do the problems there replicate here?

No clue. Gotta hop into #Perusall first. #Teaching

I really love the social reading app #perusall, but they got some basic usability stuff to figure out.

I've posted quite a lot on Twitter and on my professional blog about #SocialAnnotation as a #pedagogical practice for increasing student #engagement in reading and discussion, particularly in #hybrid and #remote instructional modalities. The research (and, let's be frank, marketing) team at #Hypothesis has just released a white paper that synthesizes a lot of the research that supports this tool.

It's worth a read if you're already using tools like Hypothesis, #Perusall, or #Kami or if you're looking for new tools to use in your classroom.

https://6291320.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6291320/The%20Value%20of%20Social%20Annotation%20for%20Teaching%20and%20Learning.pdf?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=233094097&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ZWAClg7DeAHrbpDdNAv_hPBaGk8T_Z1h5e_23X5fWpHPRK0CvLXgYe_6sSO786VJfWouXQTA3OFRQ4HTNRuS3_9-k2w&utm_content=233094097&utm_source=hs_automation

Struggled so hard this semester to stay in the classroom w these gorram #CPTSD attacks.

Lotta times we've had to do #virtual (text-based on my end) classes through Google docs and #Perusall videos.

Only had to cancel a few.

Upside is I've worked through 2 huge and debilitating triggers that were hitting an hour before class and an hour into office hours or events I'm enjoying. Yes w aww

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