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Empower Learners for the Age of AI: a reflection

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

Some of the ‘ end is nigh ’ messages circulating on Social Media in the light of the recent release of ChatGPT are fanciful click-bait, some however, fire a warning shot across the bow of complacent educators. There will undoubtedly be students today, from K-12 through to University, who will be submitting written work generated by ChatGPT.

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The software says my student cheated using AI. They say they’re innocent. Who do I believe? | Robert Topinka

The Guardian Higher Education

In the desperate scramble to combat AI, there is a real danger of penalising students who have done nothing wrong Robert Topinka a senior lecturer in media and cultural studies at Birkbeck, University of London When I sat down to mark undergraduate student essays in the spring of 2023, the hype around ChatGPT was already at giddy heights.

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HBCU Advancement Teams: Don't Underestimate the Power of the Individual Donor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While social media and other technological advances have catapulted crowdsource funding and peer-to-peer modalities as preferred channels due to their focus on quantifiable gifts, there is still great credence in the quote, “All generations are not created equal.”

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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

SRHE

I recovered in time to travel to Helsinki for a symposium two days later, but winter storms shut down the airport, delayed flights and lost luggage, including mine. by Kai Syng Tan A loveless storm and a love-filled symposium On 18 November I was ill. Then, there’s a certain cartoon-tycoon who has been dominating the headlines.

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These public colleges and MSIs are powerful economic engines

University Business

Of the 21 institutions that accomplished the same feat in less than a year, 15 were public. “Sometimes students might say, ‘If this doesn’t sound like a school that I hear floating around on the media all day, it’s not a good school,'” says Chazz Robinson, education policy advisor at Third Way.

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MIT Scholars Attend International Conference

CAPD

Paper Title: “Finding Our Way Together: The Transnational Constellations Behind Surveillance Technology Discovery in Mexico” Ambar Reyes Bio: Ambar Reyes is a Mexican media researcher. She holds a MSc in Comparative Media Studies from the same institution. She is a PhD student in STS at MIT. Muhammad E.

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At the University of Montana, esports is about more than competition

University Business

There are currently around 300 members enrolled in the program, and nearly 100 of them play competitively by choice, according to Michael Cassens, assistant professor of gaming and interactive media and director of UM Esports. “We It’s been a huge passion of mine and just an overall joy.

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