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"My new favorite podcast." -Jonathen Lethem. Now: The Rider | Krabbe Next: Amateurs | Halberstam
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Joined November 2022
Love this podcast series for AI in schools, thinking about AI use, & so much more!
ChatGPT in Schools: Ban it? Embrace it? Hosts Jesse Dukes and Justin Reich share stories of teachers and students reacting to the arrival of an exciting, alarming, and strange technology: The Homework Machine. Follow TeachLab at https://t.co/UmyLOLgEV2
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Live draft starting in just a moment. Fill out the form to RSVP: https://t.co/pW93phMfIQ
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RSVP survey for the Upper Middlebrow Live draft, October 6th, 5pm PDT. The questions below are designed to prove you're a human being who listens to the show. The links to join the live draft video...
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At a moment when unprecedented sums are being invested in AI development — including many billions devoted to AI powered education technology — teachers wonder if our priorities are in the right place. https://t.co/s6sfqRtXdo
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Generative AI has added more strain to an already frayed education system.
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Would you rather be Krabbé or Reilhan? https://t.co/zAwG9Arbou
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As per usual, if you ask young people to reflect seriously about their experiences in schools, what they share will be heartfelt (sometimes heart wrenching), insightful, and crucial to navigating the challenges of school change.
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Teachers share stories of dealing with AI cheating on "The Homework Machine" newest episode "The Duplicitous Nature of Humanity". https://t.co/U3O9SffBav
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And once you watch them, why not listen to our episodes about each one. Here's "Purple Noon"
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Chris and Jesse charge into our next group of works, Ripley en Filmes, beginning with René Clement’s visually stunning 1960 film Plein Soleil, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The …
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We love that @Criterion is featuring a series of #Ripley films.
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We'll be back if this place gets its act together. Until then, see you over there:
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The lads continue to admire China Miéville’s genius premise for this novel, but will the second half of the book escape the issues we’ve seen in the noir and noir-adjacent works the UMBers have read? As Inspector Borlu closes in on the answer to this spiraling whodunit, the boys
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In which @FindingFavsPod joins us to talk about how M3gan is the Amelia Bedilia of horror, and why #TedChiang says robot horror stories are capitalisim stories.
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@FindingFavsPod Recs from the episode include: @tedchiang's #Exhalation
#AlienRomulus
@ManMadeMoon's #MOON And several honorable mentions including: #Asimov's #RobotVisions
#TheTerminator
#robocop #shortcircuit #Frankenstein and more.
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Crossover! We join forces with @FindingFavsPod to talk M3gan and other stories of robot friends and enemies. Since we don’t yet have actual robot friends (although according to Silicon Valley, they’ll be here soon) what are we really talking about when we tell stories about
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Of all the Jesse Dukes's in the world, our dude is the Jesse Dukesiest.
In 2005, if you told me that I'd be in a cozy Yonkers apartment, ironing a shirt, and making slides to illustrate a hilarious AI hallucination involving a giant bronze beaver, to present to a bunch of parents and teachers in Westchester Co, I'd have said "That sounds about
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New Episode! China Mieville's neo-scifi-noir classic:
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