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That future may arrive sooner than expected when you consider what a short window #college really is. Already, roughly half of all undergrads have never experienced college without easy access to generative #AI. “We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” said Green, the Santa Clara #tech ethicist. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process, & it’s happening fast.”

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Sarah continued to use #AI when she started #college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class & not see other students’ laptops open to #ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be #dependent on the website. She already considered herself #addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said.

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#Professors & #teaching assistants increasingly found themselves staring at essays filled with clunky, robotic phrasing that, though grammatically flawless, didn’t sound quite like a #college student — or even a human. 2½ years later, #students at large state #schools, the Ivies, liberal-arts schools in New England, #universities abroad, professional schools, & community colleges are relying on #AI to ease their way through every facet of their #education.

In Jan 2023, just 2 months after #OpenAI launched #ChatGPT, a survey of 1,000 #college #students found that nearly 90% of them had used the chatbot to help w/ #homework assignments. In its first year of existence, ChatGPT’s total monthly visits steadily increased month-over-month until June, when #schools let out for the summer. (That wasn’t an anomaly: Traffic dipped again over the summer in 2024.)

#idiocracy #tech #AI #dependence
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Intelligencer · Rampant AI Cheating Is Ruining Education Alarmingly FastBy James D. Walsh

Hier, j'ai découvert que les collègues #prof qui travaillent sur les îles, genre île de Batz, au #college des Iles du Ponant, paient le parking de leur véhicule à la gare maritime, et le prix de la traversée (soit un 15aine d'euros par jour pour aller bosser, sans autre solution, le #velotaf en mer c'est compliqué). Ce sont des sommes payées à des cies privées, qui ne sont pas fichues de mettre en place des tarifs spéciaux pour permettre à des agentes de remplir leur mission de #servicepublic

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…The #Trump admin has vowed to take on campus #protests against #Israel’s military campaign in the #Gaza Strip, saying they reflect #antisemitism that must be punished. Those efforts are aimed at both #college administrators, who Trump ofcls say should have done more to rein in campus protests, & #student #activists themselves, some of whom #immigration ofcls have detained. Activists, in turn, accuse the authorities of conflating criticism of Israeli & US policy w/antisemitism.

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The breadth of the investigation, conducted by the #DOJ’s #CivilRights division, has not been previously reported. The ensuing clash highlights the tensions roiling the dept as admin ofcls seek to enact #Trump’s agenda. That bid includes redirecting the…division away from its traditional approach of protecting the rights of minority groups to a new mission of fulfilling a campaign promise to crack down on #student #protesters amid accusations of rampant #antisemitism on #college campuses.

To other #blind #students, what tools have you used to help you formate your papers with #APA styling and #citations? My #university provides #Perrla for free to students, but it doesn't seem to be the most #accessible with #ScreenReaders, at least not the online version. I haven't tried the add-on for #MicrosoftWord. With the online version, though, I don't see any keyboard shortcuts, and when you move into the edit box to start writing a paper, focus gets trapped there and it's hard to get out, so I don't think it's the best tool for me. The only other tool I know of is the reference manager built into Microsoft Word, but it seems to have fewer features and doesn't really help you format your paper like Perrla does, something I was looking forward to since all the APA rules for styling seem hard to remember.
#College #CollegeStudent #accessibility #JAWS #ScreenReaders #writing
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Count (Do)Orlock for #doorsday 🦇 🧛‍♀️

I realize I didn't do a great job of showing the lights going on and off in the last post because it's quite difficult to scroll through the pictures quickly. So, I've learned a new skill and made a bad GIF! I promise to now retire (Do)Orlock, for a bit. 😂 (The rest of this post is the same as the previous one!)

This door is one of the side doors from the Collegio di Spagna - part of the University of Bologna and operational since the 14th century. It is a college for Spanish Students and it is the oldest in the world open to foreign students. (More on this cool building later!)
I spent more time on this than I care to admit and how I arrived at this magnum opus/possible cry for help has been surprising - even for me. 😂 I would love your opinions on in the comments!
I hope you like it and it makes you smile! ✨

#photography #amateurphotography #door #urban #city #doorphotography #medieval #middleages #bologna #college #university #travel #meme #spongebob #pun #funny #explore #dadjoke #architecture #porta #portadì #italia #citta #old
#urbanarchitecture #travel #europe #blackandwhite #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #momochrome #nosferatu #cinema #film #street #building #suprise #video #gif