It's becoming increasingly clear that most educational institutions are going to use and pay for wildly problematic AI detection tools to surveil student work. More educators are using a "hunch" to interrogate students for AI writing. Educators are spending all their time checking student work with inaccurate detection tools cause they believe the student used AI; they can "feel" it. Lol. Trying to push back on this narrative is exhausting.
Taught a grad hyflex course today. 3 people came to class. 4 people attended class via Zoom. 4 people did not attend. We only meet once a week for an hour & a half. Students can watch a recording of class time & write a reflection. I'm teaching in a multimodal classroom with 6 computer screens on the wall, a camera, and a microphone. Today was the 1st day. I need to improve the sound so students on Zoom can hear everyone in class no matter where they are seated. Overall class went well.
The DH Awards are accepting nominations until 29 Jan 23. This is a good opportunity to shine a light on DH projects you support! The categories are listed in the image.
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#DigitalHumanities resources don't end up on the ballot unless you nominate them!
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DH Awards on Twitter
“The Call for Nominations is open for DH Awards 2022. If you want to see something nominated for this year's #DH awareness-raising event, then nominate it now.
#DigitalHumanities resources don't end up on the ballot unless you nominate them!
https://t.co/qlOg4409W8”
I'm working on the research for a book about how professional writers across disciplines receive and process feedback. It took a year to write the IRB. Research will begin soon. This will be my most significant project and my only book project as an academic. I try to focus on publishing open access sources. I'll be posting abt that project over the next couple years.
I'll also be giving biweekly surveys that ask students how things are going and what is and isn't working well. I always give surveys when I teach these types of classes. I'll share how those survey results are shaping some of the class time activities. This is basically an online course with some F2F class time once a week for discussion and teaching simulation/activities.
I'll be posting a lot next quarter about my experience teaching a class where students can attend in person, via Zoom, or watch a recording of class. I've taught this mode before, but I've never had an option for students to watch a recording of class time too. It's a grad class on composition theory & history with 9 students. I signed up the class for a multimodal classroom, so I'll have access to multiple screens & multimodal tools. I've not used a multimodal classroom to teach this mode yet.
"AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry" is a resource list I'm working on with the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/collections/ai-text-generators-and-teaching-writing-starting-points-for-inquiry/
Please send comments and additions or let me know if you are interested in collaborating! Hoping to make a better interface for viewing the sample ChatGPT-generated academic essays soon.
Thanks! #LLMs #AIED #AI #writing #teaching
AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry - The WAC Clearinghouse
I'm sharing here on Mastodon this just opened call for a Digital Systems & Digital Scholarship Specialist to support digital humanities & new media research in my English Dept. at U. California, Santa Barbara (a dept. with a strong DH background that is unusual among humanities departments in housing and running its own servers for many digital projects). This is a staff position. Nota bene: "Eligible for Remote Work: Yes."
Full job description here: https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&SiteId=31&FOCUS=Applicant&JobOpeningId=42004&PostingSeq=1
When I make
#AudioFeedback I always make a transcript using the Microsoft transcription tool, and cleaning up the transcript is a great way to reflect on your feedback practices and whether it is formative and dialogic. Making multimodal feedback leads to reflecting on the feedback.
#hyflex meeting again this week. We talked about a workshop we all attended with faculty teaching hyflex courses from across the country. Some good questions to think about when teaching hyflex:
What types of students are taking these courses and why? Freshman? Seniors?What disciplines? What are the habits of mind for teaching hyflex? How do we assess instructors and learning in these courses?
Programming Historian
Anna Mills
Alan Liu