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She sounds awesome. 
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Iām pretty sure our graduation speaker will never be invited back. I thought it was great, but grad speakers usually mouth a bunch of platitudes and are done.
This guy encouraged students to use their education to resist ignorance. He called out political leaders who intentionally misled citizenry about vaccines, causing millions of deaths. He quoted Voltaire as a warning about trusting political leaders so much youāll engage in sedition, āAnyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.ā And he urged the grads to use the Tennessee Three as inspiration for fighting against people who would have them mistrust and hate others for who they are.
His only low point was quoting MLK. Itās a running joke that every single white grad speaker will throw in an MLK quote. Always. It could be a drinking game.
But on balance, it was amazing. I was pretty sure the faces of the dais party were going to get stuck in a rictus blank stare from the strain of not reacting.
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Hopefully, at least it was not one of the usual ones?
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Esh.
āThe ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
But āperson.ā
Boring. Two drinks cause itās that one.
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Yeah. To be fair, in the context of mastering your fear (resist political leaders ignorance, etc) it made sense.
But meh.
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This seems interestingā¦
Although I donāt think Iāll be able to view the livestreamā¦
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By an undergrad at Columbia.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/im-a-student-you-have-no-idea-how-much-were-using-chatgpt
No wall: https://archive.md/Kelhm
We donāt fully lean into AI and teach how to best use it, and we donāt fully prohibit it to keep it from interfering with exercises in critical thinking. Weāre at an awkward middle ground where nobody knows what to do, where very few people in power even understand that something is wrong. At any given time, I can look around my classroom and find multiple people doing homework with the help of ChatGPT. Weāre not being forced to think anymore.
People worry that ChatGPT might āeventuallyā start rendering major institutions obsolete. It seems to me that it already has.
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For once Iām not sure what your gif means. 
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I donāt knowā¦ maybe that itās just frustration as it feels like another nail in the coffin of humanities having any real support in our educational system?
Honestly, Iām just highly demoralized and frustrated, over all, but especially in seeing academia find a way to pull out of the tailspin its inā¦
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No surprise, to be honest. The key is going to be teaching students how to engage it. So faculty will have to do things like āengage Chatbot in a historical debate about X, where you take the side of Y, using evidence from the following readingsā type stuff.
It wonāt be easy, for sure.
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I guess if youāre happy with at best a C, thatās fine. But Iāve seen a fair amount of text generated by ChatGPT andā¦itās mediocre at best.
Iāve said it before; I think it could bail a student out who is facing a deadline to produce a draft but a lot of polishing would be necessary to turn that into A or even B work. IMO.
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Yesā¦so far. But itās ālearning,ā or at any rate, getting better. And itās already producing a lot of rough drafts that students polish and turn in, and that they incorporate in other ways into ātheirā writing. It can also revise drafts that it produces with further prompts.
As the studentās piece I linked points out, there are a lot of ways to use it, already, that have long been considered unwthical student conduct. And those grading their papers often canāt tell, and when they can, they often canāt prove it.
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Lots of people are, if it gets them out of a class and on to the rest of their livesā¦
And weāre not paid nearly enough to spend hours trying to figure out if it is cheatingā¦
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