bryanalexandee

@bryanalexandee@mastodon.education

Higher education futurist. Author of Universities on Fire and Academia Next.
Blog and links to everything: https://bryanalexander.org/

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bryanalexandee, to random

NASA ups the nerd level by releasing a tabletop role-playing game: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/online-activities/the-lost-universe/

bryanalexandee, to random

Thinking about possibilities for AI video creator in higher education:
https://open.substack.com/pub/aiandacademia/p/what-sora-might-mean-for-higher-education

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Some thoughts on text to video AI tools like :

https://aiandacademia.substack.com/p/notes-on-sora

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I'd love to have something like Google News for podcast news.
To pick out a series of topics to listen to and others to avoid.

Is there anything like this?

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Whoa:
"annual electricity use from cryptocurrency mining probably represents from 0.6% to 2.3% of U.S. electricity consumption."

New federal data:
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Half thinking of starting an hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail.

bryanalexandee,

@pvonhellermannn I've been working on this in a few ways: the Future Trends Forum video program, some books, my blog. Doing my best to record and forecast.

bryanalexandee, to random

Ohio higher ed just dodged a bullet. A GOP law to regulate "discussion of 'controversial beliefs'” failed.

Climate change teaching and research would have been up for state control, along with DEI.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02122023/ohio-higher-education-bill-fails/

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Now this is asymmetrical bandwidth:

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Interdisciplinary life is what happens when you make disciplinary plans

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Sometimes I wonder about Duolingo.

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The University of Michigan is still offline.

If that was an attack, it must have been a fierce one. I wonder about the source.

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Is any other nation doing this?

"All students at India’s universities will have to study subjects such as environmental education and climate change in order to graduate, starting from the about-to-begin 2023 to 2024 academic year, according to guidelines from the University Grants Commission (UGC), the country’s higher education apex body."

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=2023080211544678

bryanalexandee,

@seanbala Was that an undergraduate school?

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Storms are once again pummeling the #Vermont area where we used to live.
I'm hearing about 4" of water in a couple of hours, a train evacuated, a water main burst, a boil water order, people rescued from floating cars, roads ripped out - please be safe, people of Ripton and Addison county!

https://vtdigger.org/2023/08/04/middlebury-floods-as-up-to-6-inches-of-rain-hammer-addison-county/
(Photo of 2-lane road with one side collapsed into a sinkhole)

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bryanalexandee,

@brian_gettler @histodons
That sounds terrific.

bryanalexandee, to ai

Question: is your college or university preparing #AI policies for fall classes?

bryanalexandee,

@CerstinMahlow Very good! May I share it?

bryanalexandee,

@CerstinMahlow
Thank you.
Ah, my German is only kindergarten level. I have to resort to Google Translate.

bryanalexandee,

@CerstinMahlow No problem. Danke!

(Eh bien, merci aussi. )

ai6yr, to climate
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AP: Cities have long planned for extreme heat, but is it enough in a warming world? #heatwaves #climate https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cities-have-long-planned-for-extreme-heat-but-is-it-enough-in-a-warming-world

bryanalexandee,

@ai6yr Agreed.
In my work I am trying to get academia to take the climate crisis seriously.
Very little to see for it so far.

Green_Footballs, to random
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Controversial opinion: blogs were actually good and the shit that replaced them sucks

bryanalexandee,

@Green_Footballs
Blogs were good indeed.
I never stopped mine.

bryanalexandee, to random

Thinking about the fast-developing Russia coup/crisis/chaos, and wondering how to use Mastodon to follow it.

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bryanalexandee,

@stevefoerster @edutooters

Excellent catch. Fits right in with Universities on Fire.

bryanalexandee, to random

Question:
What's a fine, juicy article on the printing press revolution?

I'm rethinking my tech and innovation graduate seminar and want to have students do more on this topic, but don't think I can cram a whole extra book into that syllabus now.

bryanalexandee, to random

@hpkomic Gothic greetings!

bryanalexandee,

@hpkomic Ah, now you have me torn between my work on higher ed's future and my lifelong love of horror.

(There is some overlap)

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