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Category: Blog
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Disabling Professions and the Silence of our Fool Policy-Makers
Another friend of mine pointed out the many policy overreaches made and that “Learning has been devalued by those in charge for decades. e.g. university as just the acquisition of job tickets. And assignments that reward end products not learning.” My friend, who I consider as one of the best community educators in theology and…
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The Challenge to the Educational Authorities
A friend of mine, a person who I consider one of Queensland’s top educators in science, pointed out that, “Most academics are unaware that there are AI designed to write undetected, it’s not just chat get.” [joke on ChatGPT; to spell it out for the highly paid fools, “chat get” is not learning] …
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Jack Grove, Academics despair as ChatGPT-written essays swamp marking season, The Times Higher Education Supplement
Jack Grove, Academics despair as ChatGPT-written essays swamp marking season, The Times Higher Education Supplement, June 17, 2024 Another reason to employ or contract me, a human being. Academics despair as ChatGPT-written essays swamp marking season ‘It’s not a machine for cheating; it’s a machine…
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Even as I don’t put much weight on numbers…
Even though I do not put much weight on the numbers in my scholarship, The University of Queensland keeps wanting to use the numbers in its public relations exercises, and dismisses that something really bad has happened in Queensland education in the last 30 years. Thus, I am forced to make an argument on The…
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Are you really listening? Or are you being misguided by your advisers.
Dear VC, You have been completely misguided by your conservative advisors, if what is being said is to ignore the activists. See the THE article below. I and the other critical thinkers are at the cutting-edge of our fields and global knowledge. The difference between the others and myself is that I am in Queensland as the leading…
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It is not that I do not Care, But You Do Have the Capacity
Dear VC, It is not that I do not care for your difficult position in my campaign to employ and contract the best and leading candidates for employment and contracting. In the United States the situation is far worse. I suspect that I am not the only former…
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The Integrity of Learning and the Political Silence
“This issue of Encounters/recontres/Encuentros on Education reunites historians working in Departments of History and Sociology with historians and sociological historians working in Faculties of Education. History of Education brings with her particularities inherent to the subject matter and, when situated in faculties of education, the contextual power of teacher education programs. Historians of education in…
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TASA Sociology of Education SIG Social Sciences Week Event: Expressions of Interest
The TASA Sociology of Education special interest group is inviting expressions of interest for presentations in a symposium for Social Sciences Week called ‘Levelling the Field – how do diverse students negotiate education systems between constraints and opportunities?’ This half day event on 10 September will examine the current state of different…
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How to reverse 30 years in higher education policy?
Dear friends, Here is a prime example in the outcome of 30 years’ failure in higher education policies: “There are forums on contract cheating writers and I’ve seen them discuss that students have been caught for using AI and come back to have real people write things for them.” Why? …
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Max the Cat received an honorary degree…When ‘Fun’ Rules Policy and Politics
“We don’t hand out doctoral degrees here, but I thought it would be fun to give Max one,” Franklin said, noting that Vermont Public Radio covered the story. I, like anyone, will be misunderstood. So, let me be clear : I have no problem in Max the Cat getting an doctoral degree,…