Much of the ‘critical’ academic discourse on ethics and accessibility in relation to new technology does not eat its own dog food. It doesn’t bother to take the time to carefully define, categorise and evaluate particular technologies, and it mostly fails to propose credible actions or mitigations.
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Please mind the gap between higher education and the technology ecosystem
Higher ed has considerable power to positively influence the tech ecosystem, not by moaning about capitalism, or waiting to see what happens. We have to do it by quickly identifying and aggressively advancing innovative and progressive use cases. So when do we start?
FHEA FFS WTAF
AdvanceHE fellowships are everything that is wrong with HE: boring, retrogressive, pompous, opaque, unfair, inconsistent, gate-keepery, narcissistic, self-congratulatory (except in my sad-ass case), elitist, self-serving, and entirely dismissive of the student voice and real measures of impact and value.
What do techno-optimists and conspiracy theorists have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out.
Fervent, overly determined techno-optimism has much in common with the ideation of conspiracy theories relating to advanced technologies. In fact, advocates of techno-optimist futures, and the proponents of conspiracy theories such as the supposed causal relationship between 5G and COVID-19, share common cognitive, dispositional and contextual characteristics.
Week notes: 17 July 2023
It may be wishful thinking to hope that AI will simply slot in to our current toolsets, making us more efficient at work. Even the current beta tools enable an order of magnitude increase in efficiency. Skill in doing a single thing will simply have no value. Instead, we will need skills in ‘multilearning’, or the ability to learn and deploy new knowledge and skills quickly. Very quickly.
Matthew Moran 