Erica Light @lab_educator
UMass iCons Faculty, Freelance Science Editor, PhD student in UMass MSLT Program, she/they Joined April 2023-
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"a critical silence in higher education policies concerns the evolving notion of originality in the digital age and a more inclusive approach to address the originality of students’ work is required." #highereducation buff.ly/3UEIapi
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Check out our paper in Science. We argue that more than content knowledge is required in science education. The sociopolitical in human genetics education | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Young people talk about feelings of fear and extreme levels of stress they have experienced as a result of reward/ behaviour charts. Interestingly a lot of the young people who struggled with them the most were always on the “good side”, 10/12
PFAS exposure can lower nutritional value of breast milk, study finds. The study found the more a mother's milk was affected, the more likely the child would later have an autoimmune condition, diabetes or low thyroid function. ehn.org/breast-milk-nu…
"We identified and carefully coded 37 peer-reviewed empirical research articles and dissertations on institutional betrayal from 2011 to 2022, reported in a hot-off-the-presses publication."
Wrote a short reflection for @4sWeb Backchannels on my experience as an STS researcher embedded in a core computer science course. I discuss the politics of curriculum and ask how to chart new paths towards reflexive socio-technical knowledge production 4sonline.org/news_manager.p…
I find this chart to be incredibly useful for modeling the different levels at which higher-ed institutions are adopting AI-EdTech.
I find this chart to be incredibly useful for modeling the different levels at which higher-ed institutions are adopting AI-EdTech.
First up is reporting on how face recognition did more than violate the legal rights of falsely arrested Black men. It also had serious repercussions on their interpersonal relationships and the lives of people in their families. wired.com/story/wrongful…
Nightshade is out! Nightshade poisons AI models if your art or images are taken without permission, Glaze protects you from AI mimicry. It's recommended you Nightshade first, then Glaze. A version that does both is coming. Read this thread for more info. Go get 'em 🫡
Nightshade is out! Nightshade poisons AI models if your art or images are taken without permission, Glaze protects you from AI mimicry. It's recommended you Nightshade first, then Glaze. A version that does both is coming. Read this thread for more info. Go get 'em 🫡 https://t.co/YddNu8xmJm
How do we capture the full picture of AI's fast-evolving role and impact in education? Our synthesis of 66 reviews on #AI in #HigherEd (2018-2023) reveals the main advantages, obstacles, and future research directions. Read the paper open access at …naltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…
Very Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse vibes
Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue and Green Music, 1921 #womensart
Refaat Alareer's course on English poetry at the Islamic University of Gaza from 2019. 28 sessions on form and content, text and context, meter, metaphor, rhyme, caesura, and parody. Our teacher. youtube.com/watch?v=gRDwGM…
Oh my god. insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…
Data visualisation helps us to understand the world. It also has the power to change it. Watch our video with @bbcideas, narrated by @AdamRutherford, and explore five graphs that changed the world:

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