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Humanities departments judge their undergraduate students on the basis of their essays. They give Ph.D.s on the basis of a dissertation’s composition. What happens when both processes can be significantly automated?

They will be essential in determining the ethical and creative use of chatbots, to take only an obvious example.

deeper humanistic questions like, what is truth? What is. beauty? How do we know what we know?

I'm happy to say good riddance to the college essay and other "skills" that we've come to see as proving the value of the humanities.

one that demands students find out something about themselves and tell it to you in a voice that is their own.

One high school teacher told me that he used ChatGPT to evaluate a few of his students’ papers, and that the app had provided more detailed and useful feedback on them than he would have, in a tiny fraction of the time.

They’ll need to know their way around these tools — their strengths and weaknesses, their hallmarks and blind spots — in order to work alongside them. To be good citizens,

Our interviews with faculty indicate that reforms to pedagogy, instructional practices, and grading as well as expanded equity-centered support for both students and instructors are key, especially in light of the pandemic.

the use of high support, high challenge,equity-minded teaching practice

share strategies that promote studentengagement, foster belonging

extra work it places on instructors to serve a group of students with variable levels of preparedness,

curriculum changes, or additional supports

“These types of changes are hard and challenging and lead us to have to rethink how we think about students and ourselves in the classroom and about how our classes and colleges are structured,” he said.

standardized placement testing has a racial bias and that the colleges may have been underestimating the ability of students to succeed in more rigorous courses

Responding to multi-level students who are in the same class takes significantly more time and effort

Composition courses, for example, often require students to work in groups, and some faculty have noted an impact on more prepared students who have to adjust to or compensate for too many underprepared students in such a setting.

faced with such a wide range of student preparation, the instructor is forced to dedicate extra time to issues that previously were not a focus in the course.

And, particularly, we are spending much more time on reading and retention strategies than we would in a regular 1A class where a few class sessions are sufficient to bring them up to the level of college annotations and retention necessary.

When many of the students in a course are underprepared and need remediation but now must have their needs addressed in a transferrable course

encouraged instructional innovation and experimentation that has led to positive curricular changes

the same research also shows that while the raw numbers of students passing transfer-level English and math courses have increased, success rates have actually decreased slightly, especially for students of color (Smith, 2019)

larger numbers of students have been able to enroll in and complete transfer-level English and mathematics (Smith 2019), as the new placement system has minimized or eliminated the use of remedial or college preparatory classes and now allows students who would previously have been placed into such classes to enter directly into transfer-leve

AB 705 was written to clarify existing regulation and ensure that students are not placed into remedial courses that may delay or deter their educational progress unless evidence suggests they are highly unlikely to succeed in the college-level course.

strategic decisions about how they want to meet or challenge those expectations in terms of mode, content, structure, rhetorical appeals, presentation/design, language, and style

You are familiar with the vocabulary and concepts that define rhetorical situations and can apply them in analyzing and evaluating your own and others’ texts, including print, visual, digital, and multimedia.

Writing is an act of communication that involves an author writing for a purpose and using a genre to reach an audience in a specific context--these elements constitute the rhetorical situation.

You can recognize or trace how ideas emerge and combine to create meaning in others’ texts as well as your own.

You can read texts closely to interpret and understand writers’ messages, and read texts critically to evaluate, critique, and question those messages and how they are constructed, including their use of language.

they make specific compositional choices in their writing

Close and critical reading/analysis

You can provide respectful feedback to others and demonstrate responsiveness to readers’ feedback through reflection and revision.

You can demonstrate perseverance and openness in developing your ideas and writing across time.

reading, generating and discussing ideas, researching, drafting, reviewing and sharing our work, reflecting,

In this way, writing is a social experience,

does not always follow a linear path

multiple stages

Usability equity.

Pocketbook equity. Does the technology or e-learning resource ensure zero out-of-pocket costs for all students? 

The students accessed the Hypothes.is platform as a web browser plug-in.

Grounding in a primary document reduces the number of explicit references needed in order for comments to be understood (Honeycutt, 2001). If the source text is absent and not connected to a discussion, participants have to reconstruct the context, which has been referred to as communication overhead (Weng and Gennari, 2004).

I definitely preferred the website nature of Perusall over the plugin of Hypothes.is.

examine the summative writing for correlations between annotation and stu-dent writing outcomes.

may open up space for more empathetic forms of coming to belief

Genius activities and encouraged students to “write down what they noticed

encouraged collaboration, and mirrored social media practices familiar to students.

Her view was that the more students engaged in course readings, the better they would be at leveraging those readings in their writing.

Seatter calls for an increased focus on universal design and accessibility with Open Web SA technologies, seeing more inclusive features as helping make Open Web SA technologies “more objectively open technologies” (p. 10).

SA technologies render the act of reading visible among a group, thereby enabling socially situated “first draft thinking” practices for learners to read and write together (see Kalir, 2020).

I proceeded to take all of the papers to my childhood bedroom at my parents’ house, a conceivably more stable space to store such things.

shifts reading from being primarily a solitary activity into one that is social, with these tools (broadly understood) “support[ing] social reading, groups sensemaking, knowledge construction and community building”

practices students employ while reading remain invisible.

Document-based SA technologies (Document-based)

First, readers are writers who, for centuries, have added both informal and scholarly notes to their texts: manuscript glosses and scholia, book marginalia

invite students to serve in multiple roles (tutor, expert, motivator, mentor, and collaborator)

the “fluidity” of written texts, and that processes of composition, revision, publication, reading, analysis, and discussion are fundamentally collaborative endeavors.

cognition with composition (e.g. Traester, Kervina, & Brathwaite, 2021)

a genre of communication that synthesizes reading with writing (e.g. Wolfe, 2002)

deceptively simple

Each round

Trailing Google Classroom as the K-12 LMS of choice was Canvas, at 28 percent.

making students’ reading processes, motivations, strategies, knowledge, and under-standings visible to the teacher and to one another;

making the teacher’s discipline-based reading processes and knowledge visible to stu-dents;

moving in ways that are summer

systems perspective,

Teacher-led Annotations

the physical act of writing can help you remember better than just listening or reading

Remain conversant in developing texts, technologies, composing strategies (including those requiring computer skills), and standards recognized in the field of Rhetoric and Composition Studies

Use critical thinking and reasoning skills to analyze, to infer, to synthesize, to interpret, and to evaluate effectively, including information, arguments (i.e., premise, deductive and inductive reasoning, forms of appeal, and forms of evidence), and literary works as well as to argue effectively (i.e., to develop a position, reasons, evidence, and warrants) when presenting informationor analyzing and interpreting texts.

As a history instructor, for example, one of us requires students to locate archival photographs from the Library of Congress that might help illustrate the reading, link to them in appropriate places, and write a caption that explains why they’ve chosen the photograph.

They may share a link to the biography of a person mentioned in the reading, or a news story related to the reading, encouraging their classmates to check it out. They may link to an image or map online that they think will help their fellow students better understand the reading.

The act of assigning shared annotations can help students think about reading as a social element rather than a private practice.

demystifying what has often been a private, individual practice.

Social annotation, on the other hand, provides an unobtrusive way for faculty to focus on student reading and interpretation in any course that requires reading

First, instructors should provide students with multiple means of engagement, especially by helping students understand the wider significance of the content they’re learning. Second, instructors should provide students with opportunities to interact with course content in multiple ways, for example, by providing audio, video, and textual materials.

The UDL framework is helpful generally in working with students of a wide range of abilities;

provide students with options for expressing their knowledge and ideas in several ways

platform through which they can employ the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to improve engagement and accessibility for all learners.

Work through each paragraph identifying the overall argument, claims, types of claim, evidence (and types of evidence), strategies, appeals, and rebuttals

identify the main elements of the argument

Crossing the Stage: Bachelor Degree Completion Programs

For high-stakes courses (i.e., prerequisites), Santa Cruz has early alert programs to identify students at risk of failing a course early in the quarter and provide academic advising and support.

Santa Cruz would create a community of teaching professors and graduates students to more effectively bring new teaching techniques to courses

Enriching the culture of these courses

Santa Cruz is increasing the proportion of curriculum available online, including fully online degrees building on courses created through ILTI (24 courses and high demand courses now offered in summer).

UC campuses are integrating online technology into existing courses, expanding the number of courses available online,

proactively helping students engage more deeply in their educational experiences,

importance of cohort-based learning

Research findings from the UC Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) show that students with a lower sense of belonging (on the campus) have lower graduation rates than their peers (see Figure 4).

I also was able to network a bit, making some friends in the process.

learning new skills to handle college courses

The first step to increasing degree attainment is ensuring students get off to the right start.

January 2019 Regents meeting item B1

would allow UC to confer 1.2 million undergraduate and graduate degrees by 2030, a 20 percent increase over current projections.

whether the challenges associated with critical reading in the digital age could be addressed through both tool- and pedagogy-based interventions.

to state them “explicitly,” teach them “directly, and [require them] in students’ work” (Horning 2007: 3).

renewed focus to reading as composed of sequential and increasingly complex steps

The page paves the way to one’s personal reflection in the same way that a front path leads to one’s home

stronger reading practices online.

Such a return to print-based reading could prompt the considered belief formation that scholars agree is the best defense against misinformation

Pedagogy to Disrupt the Echo Chamber

When learners have adequatedomain understanding and self-regulation skills, a lower level of instructor involvementmay provide moreflexibility to learners while also reducing the instructor’s workload

some earlier-starter students communicated challenges with the timing of participationas they needed to check back multiple times to read their peers’contributions

rereading

As Web annotation activities generate digital trace data that provide indicators oflearning, one approach worth considering is to derive learning analytics that extractsannotation data to be analyzed for evaluation purposes.

useful for peer interaction but less valuable for thecreation of course community

some peer annotations might evenimpede their understanding

In the COVID-19 pandemic

The authors suggested instructor facilitation wascritical for achieving the desired outcome.

provided sufficient scaffolding

The annotations wereextracted from Diigo for groups to discuss and construct well-reasoned arguments.

orchestrating knowledge construction

socialconstructivist views of learning

One challenge facing the use of social annotation is the occurrence of“low-quality”student annotations.

processing domain-specific knowledge,

In my own institution,

Paul Miller, Rhythm Science

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700 leagues off,

Apr 25, 2018

where can we find light

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epidemic.

The children

notions of what just is isn’t always justice.

This division is severe enough to call to mind the disagreements between the colonists and King George, and those between the Confederate and Union forces in the Civil War.

restoration

Americans will never falter in defending the fundamental truths of human liberty proclaimed on July 4, 1776.

has a weight you can feel Hanging on you, & then it’s there – that Point – whatever – which, now, while It’s happening seems to be constantly slipping away, “Like the sand through your f

If children sleep

blind end

cellular snuggle

This is the sergeant5 Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought ’Gainst my captivity.—Hail, brave friend! Say to the King the knowledge of the broil

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Almost all are affected by the physical isolation measures and lack of human contact.

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Amnesia

NATURE AND SCOPE

customer experience

Strategy 7. Reimagine advising and support services.

▪      Peer-led study groups.

emphasize Instructor presence

active learning pedagogies

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13th century

What’s more, Genius became a successful company thanks in large part to the unpaid work of tens of thousands of music fans who transcribe and annotate without any compensation.

First, an apostrophe pattern concealed in song lyrics that spelled out “red handed” in Morse code (which is even older than phonebooks), then a spacing pattern that spelled out “genius.”

anchored

n bolstering an existing strong privacy system, in covering up some specific action, in making things marginally harder for an adversary, or even in the “mere gesture” of registering our discontent and refusal.

Cyclosa mulmeinensis, which fill their webs with decoys of themselves.

She is not in prison or institutionalized, nor is she a dissident or an enemy of the state, yet she lives in a condition of permanent and total surveillance unprecedented in its precision and intimacy.

tudents and faculty are reduced to a “look but don’t touch” relationship with their materials

make the teaching and learning problems caused by copyright the core issue we are solving with OER

I think you can run a business premised on open source applications and still provide something folks are more than willing to pay for (which in our case is by and large support). 

Being open and transparent about what they are charging for

And yet the narrative is not so simple because some of the for-profit players are making efforts to be good (or at least better) actors in open education. I believe that these efforts should be recognized and lauded. In some cases we are witnessing the outcomes of individual efforts to (slowly) change long-standing organizational culture. I believe these internal advocates need our support to engineer systemic change, to get their organizations to understand the value (and not just the price) of doing right by students.

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According to White House officials I spoke with, this was "not the first time" under this Administration that a Presidential transcript was placed into this codeword-level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive-rather than national security sensitive-information.

Instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature.

as a "direct follow-up" to the President's call with Mr. Zelenskyy about the "cases" they had discussed.

The White House officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call.

This letter is UNCLASSIFIED

Perusall generates more revenue and less cost for publishers without increasing the price to students (and without charging instructors). Publishers get nearly 100% sell-through, no resales, the ultimate solution to piracy, great data, a larger impact on the learning experience, and more satisfied customers.

personalization

Embed assessment directly into daily learning experience;

Relieve administrative burdens;

“making money isn’t a dirty word,” and believed that creating more transparency and openness in conversations among stakeholders could shift the culture of teacher suspicion to make way for more partnerships.

Give educators a voice in the design process!

So our learning technologies cannot continue to live solely in our administrative units; our academic units are where we are doing some of the more transformative work of learning

Regarding the last, should students own their data, and if so, what would that look like? What can and should we do with that data? Should we turn our students' data over to external vendors?

So why was I in the room with a vendor? It was just for coffee, and he was suggesting to me that the best sales people in EdTech are the ones who have worked in education. I am mindful of a Neil Gaiman Quote from Neverwhere – “When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.”

An aspiration would be the scenario above, representing close working relationships between the elements.

“Always use the plural pedagogies, because you can claim that your pedagogy has moved on from theirs”  

Here’s the thing Darwin never said that.

having established his borrowed credibility from Charles Darwin,

book provides a framework

provide a vibrant introduction

There are many reasons why a college student may not do the reading for a course,

a potential need to access those materials again

A student of religion might refer to “divine creation” as making something from nothing. But when humans create something, we usually consider the term scientifically, changing the state of a material or an idea, or making something from something

driven by data—where schools use data to identify a problem, select a strategy to address the problem, set a target for improvement, and iterate to make the approach more effective and improve student achievement.