Arushi Manners (she/her) ๐Ÿ‰

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Learning Scientist. Chemistry teacher. EdD candidate in educational research at the University of Calgary. Interested in creating equitable and accessible virtual spaces where community and collaboration can thrive. Learning from new voices.

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GLIFF by Ali Smith

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Black and white photo of me sitting outdoors, eating a scone, taken in Grantchester. Banner is an armchair beside a window in Kettle's Yard

ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1939-5634
#EmergingPerspectiveshttps://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ep
#FSEDA Fellowshiphttps://www.seda.ac.uk/professional-development-opportunities/fellowships-scheme/fellowship/
Critical AI Literacy is Not Enough: Introducing Care Literacy, Equity Literacy & Teaching Philosophies. A Slide Deck https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/critical-ai-literacy-is-not-enough-introducing-care-literacy-equity-literacy-teaching-philosophies-a-slide-deck/
Critical AI Literacy is Not Enough: Introducing Care Literacy, Equity Literacy & Teaching Philosophies. A Slide Deck

Iโ€™ve written a lot, on and off, about the importance of developing critical AI literacy, but I realize now that it is not enough, and Iโ€™ve recently started thinking about all of this wiโ€ฆ

Reflecting Allowed
Yesterday, our Director of Research, Zuzanna Warso, opened the @berlinbuzzwords conference by talking about the #ParadoxofOpen and #PublicDigitalInfrastructure built around #DigitalCommons. You can watch the recording of the talk here ๐Ÿ“บ https://youtu.be/R1ZCCkcIdFQ?si=3QbyyL84woaYgi3W
Zuzanna Warso - The Paradox of Open: Can Digital Commons Offer a Way Forward?

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NOTE: this is in ADDITION to the two postdoctoral fellowship I am currently advertising to work with me on the Ethical Data Initiative (3 years, deadline 1 April, details here: https://www.opensciencestudies.eu)

Very happy to be welcome 4 new researchers to the group (which will keep expanding next year)!

A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments

MORE JOBS! Two postdoctoral positions opened up in my Open Science team: 20 months each, start Jan 2025, deadline for applications: May 6. One focused on science policy, the other on inequity in research. Details:
[1] https://portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissenschaftler/NewsArticle_20240314_143414;
[2] https://portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissenschaftler/NewsArticle_20240314_140315 #philsci
TUM - Vacancy: Research Fellow in Science Studies and/or Science Policy (100% for 20 months, fixed term)

Studierenden- und Mitarbeiterportal der Technische Universitรคt Mรผnchen

Free online training today:

โœ๏ธ Digital Notetaking for Researchers โœ๏ธ

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 1:00 โ†’ 2:30โ€ฏPM CET

Many of us want to be taking better notes, but devising our perfect note-taking system is a task that is easy to put off until the eternal tomorrow. At the end of this 90-minute session, participants will be able to analyze their note-taking needs and create a note-taking plan.

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https://events.digital-research.academy/event/36/

Digital Notetaking for Researchers

Many of us want to be taking better notes, but devising our perfect note-taking system is a task that is easy to put off until the eternal tomorrow. At the end of this 90-minute session, participants will be able to analyze their note-taking needs and create a note-taking plan. Participants will learn how note-taking fits into the aims of the open research movement by allowing research to be more efficient, trustworthy, and collaborative. In addition to these more theoretical considerations,...

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BBC: 2023 confirmed as world's hottest year on record. "The margin of some of these records - which you can see on the chart below - is "really astonishing", Prof Dessler says, considering they are averages across the whole world." #climate #heatwaves #weather #wx https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67861954?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=mastodon
2023 confirmed as world's hottest year on record

Climate records tumbled "like dominoes" in 2023, with temperatures far above any recorded level.

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The effects of instructor participation in asynchronous online discussions on student performance: A systematic review https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjet.13350?campaign=woletoc
See also:
* Strategies for creating a community of inquiry through online asynchronous discussions https://jolt.merlot.org/vol10no1/denoyelles_0314.pdf
* How Faculty Can Make Discussions Authentic and Not Transactional https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-student-engagement/the-discussion-board-how-faculty-can-make-discussions-authentic-and-not-transactional/
* Systematic Review of Research on Moderators in Asynchronous Online Discussions https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/3381
#OnlineTeaching #OnlineLearning #EdDev
First blog post of 2024 is entitled Of Comfort and Discomfort. It focuses on three areas where comfort or discomfort can appear for folks in #HigherEd and hopefully provides some areas to reflect on as we start a new year. https://allthingspedagogical.blogspot.com/2024/01/of-comfort-and-discomfort.html
Of Comfort and Discomfort

Happy 2024, folks! Another year and another semester is upon us and so is another round of my biweekly blog posts. I am not the type of pers...

a big reason covid misinfo has been so successful imo is that most people simply believe in capitalism.

to understand, let alone question, why covid misinfo is so readily promulgated by mainstream Democrats and their media, you have to understand that regardless of where this set lands on culture wars, they are fundamentally faithful to the current capitalist order.

if you accept the implicit hierarchy of capital, all the Covid myths make sense because they serve that order

We have now reached the absurdist phase of #COVID denial where hospitals are literally asking patients to stay home when they are sick because they just can't be bothered to require masks anymore.