The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

The education ministry is considering limiting financial support it provides to doctoral students so that funding to assist with living expenses is only made available to Japanese nationals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/26/japan/society/japan-doctoral-students-support-revision/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #education #universities

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Scambi Festival
@scambi@pan.rent  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
Scambi Festival is back!

(🇮🇹 Versione in italiano qui sopra ⤴️)

📍La Pigna, Sanremo (IM), Italy
🗓️ 20–24 August 2025

🫶🏻 Scambi is a participatory festival entirely organised by under-30 volunteers, where we share ideas, passions, insights through interactive laboratories and activities on several guiding themes:

  • 🌻 Social and Environmental Justice
  • 🌱 Degrowth and local/global economy
  • 👾 Political Technology and resistance to Technofeudalism–with @dario from @fsfe, @wikimediaitalia, and many others)
  • 🧠 Education and learning

🔋 The Program

• August 20 → public events, with labs a live music night featuring @kenobit, Mano Manita, and Dietro l’Angolo.
• August 21–24 → Communal life among participants: assemblies, discussions, focus groups, pauses at the beach, and hikes in the woods in the area.

👉🏻 If you’re interested, apply to the Call for Participation, ⚠️ open until July 20! ⤵️

✨ We’re looking forward to meet you! ✨

(boosts are welcome)

#ScambiFestival#Scambi#Scambi2025 #degrowth #economics #economy#Italy #event #camp #festival#CfP#openCall #invite#TechnoFeudalism#Technology #tech#Fediverse#OpenKnowledge #education #assembly
Arte es Ética
@arteesetica@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

La IA generativa no aumenta la creatividad como su lema publicitario promete. Un estudio del MIT Media Lab, liderado por Natalia Kosmyna, revela que, al usarla, la conectividad neuronal disminuye hasta un 55%.

Preocupación en el entorno educativo por consecuencias perjudiciales para el aprendizaje a largo plazo. 🧵
Arte es Ética
@arteesetica@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Compilamos una selección de artículos y frases destacadas analizando el estudio liderado por Nataliya Kosmyna, investigadora del MIT Media Lab, el cual ratifica muchas de las cosas que dijimos siempre sobre los efectos adversos que tiene la delegación cognitiva en sistemas de IA generativa.
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#education#genAI#ChatGPT

El uso excesivo de chatbots de IA tiene un efecto cognitivo adverso: Reduce la actividad cerebral, podría generar dependencia tecnológica y debilitar nuestras capacidades de razonamiento y aprendizaje. From Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D 𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞. Check our paper: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : http://brainonllm.com
El uso excesivo de chatbots de IA tiene un efecto cognitivo adverso: Reduce la actividad cerebral, podría generar dependencia tecnológica y debilitar nuestras capacidades de razonamiento y aprendizaje. From Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D 𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞. Check our paper: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : http://brainonllm.com
El uso excesivo de chatbots de IA tiene un efecto cognitivo adverso: Reduce la actividad cerebral, podría generar dependencia tecnológica y debilitar nuestras capacidades de razonamiento y aprendizaje. From Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D 𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞. Check our paper: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : http://brainonllm.com
The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Around 53% of Japanese LGBTQ+ youth said they have considered suicide within the past year while one in five have attempted it, according to a recent survey, highlighting the need for more reliable support for them. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/24/japan/japan-lgbtq-youth-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #lgbtq #surveys #children #rebit #education #schools
Nicole Hennig
@nic221@techhub.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

MIT Study Shows Assigning Essays Triggers Student "Brain Rot" https://stefanbauschard.substack.com/p/mit-study-shows-assigning-essays (ideas for better assignments) #AI #education

This is like building a home on a coastline known for destructive hurricanes-then acting shocked and outraged each year when your house gets flattened. If we keep assigning traditional essays knowing students can and will use ChatGPT to generate them, we're choosing to build in a danger zone and then blaming the storms when the structure collapses. (2) We can restructure assignments and stop giving assignments that trigger brain rot in the world of Al. For example, here are some ways to reduce reliance on essay writing and build debate into classroom instruction so that when students use ChatGPT to prepare they are likely to increase their critical thinking.
This is like building a home on a coastline known for destructive hurricanes-then acting shocked and outraged each year when your house gets flattened. If we keep assigning traditional essays knowing students can and will use ChatGPT to generate them, we're choosing to build in a danger zone and then blaming the storms when the structure collapses. (2) We can restructure assignments and stop giving assignments that trigger brain rot in the world of Al. For example, here are some ways to reduce reliance on essay writing and build debate into classroom instruction so that when students use ChatGPT to prepare they are likely to increase their critical thinking.
This is like building a home on a coastline known for destructive hurricanes-then acting shocked and outraged each year when your house gets flattened. If we keep assigning traditional essays knowing students can and will use ChatGPT to generate them, we're choosing to build in a danger zone and then blaming the storms when the structure collapses. (2) We can restructure assignments and stop giving assignments that trigger brain rot in the world of Al. For example, here are some ways to reduce reliance on essay writing and build debate into classroom instruction so that when students use ChatGPT to prepare they are likely to increase their critical thinking.
Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺
@skyglowberlin@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp last week

My daughter just came up with a great exercise: challenge your students to find the title of your PhD using ONLY LLMs (no Google allowed). If any of them manage, they get gummy bears 😃

I asked five different models, and got five different answers, all five of which were completely wrong 😂

#AI#ChatGPT#AISlop#LLM#LLMFail#Education #HigherEducation#AcademicChatter

Model: GPT 4.1 Verfligbare Token: 98.94% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of British Columbia. The title of his dissertation was “The search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron.”
Model: GPT 4.1 Verfligbare Token: 98.94% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of British Columbia. The title of his dissertation was “The search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron.”
Model: GPT 4.1 Verfligbare Token: 98.94% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of British Columbia. The title of his dissertation was “The search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron.”
Model: Meta LLaMA 3.3 70B Instruct (KISSKI) Verfligbare Token: 98.97% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Guelph. The title of his PhD thesis is ‘Spectral and spatial characterization of anthropogenic light pollution’.
Model: Meta LLaMA 3.3 70B Instruct (KISSKI) Verfligbare Token: 98.97% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Guelph. The title of his PhD thesis is ‘Spectral and spatial characterization of anthropogenic light pollution’.
Model: Meta LLaMA 3.3 70B Instruct (KISSKI) Verfligbare Token: 98.97% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Guelph. The title of his PhD thesis is ‘Spectral and spatial characterization of anthropogenic light pollution’.
Model: GPT 40 Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Washington. The title of his dissertation was “The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Cell Division in Neurospora crassa.”
Model: GPT 40 Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Washington. The title of his dissertation was “The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Cell Division in Neurospora crassa.”
Model: GPT 40 Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Washington. The title of his dissertation was “The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Cell Division in Neurospora crassa.”
Model: Codestral 22B (KISSKI) Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation is “The Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in the Acquisition and Expression of Conditioned Emotional Responses.”
Model: Codestral 22B (KISSKI) Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation is “The Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in the Acquisition and Expression of Conditioned Emotional Responses.”
Model: Codestral 22B (KISSKI) Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation is “The Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in the Acquisition and Expression of Conditioned Emotional Responses.”
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

“We need to start thinking about what skills we want humans to have, regardless of their utility in an economy that will slowly be replaced by AI. There’s no point trying to predict the jobs of the future. Let’s think: what are the things we want everyone in our society to know and understand? What are the key skills, human and disciplinary, that we want everyone in our society to work on?"

#HeraLindsayBird, 2025

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-06-2025/i-wanted-to-be-a-teacher-not-a-cop-the-reality-of-teaching-in-the-world-of-ai

#education#MOLE#AI
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"... the amendments that were made to the Equal Pay Act in 2020 made a real, tangible difference to women and women's pay. We had 13 successful pay equity claims that went through, and those women saw a huge difference. In some cases, up to 30%+ changes to their pay.

Today we've seen a huge step backwards, and we need to create a better world for our daughters and our granddaughters."

#JanTinetti, 2025

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/pat-brittenden/episodes/BHN-Brooke-Van-Velden-cancels-Equal-Pay-Act--Chris-Hipkins-on-Erica-Stanfords-emails--Luxon-ban-on-under-16s-on-social-media-e32evtg

#podcasts #BHN #BigHairyNews#NZPolitics#EqualPay#PublicFinances
Herefordrob
@Herefordrob@mastodon.me.uk  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@strypey
The colonisation of cognisance i.e. Belief in growth, extraction and domination restrict the development of #Education#Equality #happiness pretty much everything humans need to thrive.
That colonisation is closely aligned with the sovereign state which has to be replaced with a planetary identity.
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Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
@Deglassco@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

In 1775, hundreds of enslaved men in Virginia fled their plantations and joined the British in exchange for a single promise: freedom. They formed the Ethiopian Regiment—the first Black fighting force of the American Revolution. This is the story of how they marched under a banner that read Liberty to Slaves, and what became of them in a single, searing year.

Caption: Troiani, Don. Brave Men as Ever Fought. Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia.
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#histodons #history #education