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Some Universities Are Blocking TikTok on School Devices and Networks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some universities are scrutinizing or blocking usage of the social media platform TikTok on school devices and networks amid cybersecurity concerns surrounding the video-sharing app and its parent company, ByteDance. All this personal information. The question now is how are they going to use that information. That is the worry.

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Bringing Marketing’s Vision to Life with Computational Design: 2022 Holiday Card Story

Clark Nesxen

Computational design has the power to transform the way we approach problems and design solutions. It involves codifying information and interactions between elements for a specific process, enabling professionals in fields like architecture and engineering to design and engineer buildings more efficiently, accurately, and effectively.

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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. In this cat-and-mouse game, some computer scientists are working to make AI writers more humanlike, while others are working to improve detection tools. Academic fields make progress in this way.

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A.I.: Anticipating Impact of Educational Governance

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

It is an exciting time to be thinking about educational governance and my key message was ‘don’t get caught up in the hype’ Understanding media representations of “Artificial Intelligence”. What there is, is a clear exponential increase in the capabilities being demonstrated by computation algorithms.

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It’s the metrics, not the Matrix, part 3: Degenerative AI

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Student grades, attendance, and staff’s citations fuel the academic-industrial complex by fostering connections between businesses ready to absorb the highly-graded students while partnering with high-ranking research initiatives. Shoshana Zuboff calls this “behavioural surplus” – a term that might as well fit within the academic landscape.

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Discord in the Classroom

The Scholarly Teacher

Discord works well as a communication tool because many students are already using it, and it does not require a social media presence. Faculty should also review any academic policies related to social media or online communication to ensure that they set up appropriate guidelines for students in the server. Procedia Computer.

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The Louisiana cyberattacks that weren't—or maybe were?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Without delay, the colleges set to work performing restorative activities on their respective computer networks, according to Meg Casper Sunstrom, deputy commissioner for strategic communications at the Louisiana Board of Regents. Throughout, several of the colleges relied on social media to communicate with their respective communities.