This course will teach you about natural language processing (NLP) using libraries from the Hugging Face ecosystem — 🤗 Transformers, 🤗 Datasets, 🤗 Tokenizers, and 🤗 Accelerate — as well as the Hugging Face Hub. It’s completely free and without ads.
Beyond the Exam: An Alternative Online Assessment Toolkit - Beyond the Exam
This Toolkit is designed to support educators in their exploration of new assessment strategies as part of their commitment to improving and offering flexible online teaching and learning experiences. The resource aims to provide educators with a comprehensive toolkit to quickly find and integrate new assessment strategies into their teaching. Building new assessment strategies requires investigation, careful consideration, and creation of guiding resources for learners, all of which can be barriers to adoption for many educators. The focus of this resource is to reduce these barriers through the provision of an ‘online assessment exemplar bank,’ where we will not only categorize and share clear examples, resources and instructions that we have sourced and/or created, but also provide a space for participants to share back adopted or new assessment approaches that have proven successful for their learners and context.
Learning Design Voices | Perspectives from the Margins
During the pandemic, the pivot to emergency remote teaching highlighted the depth and extent of inequalities, particularly in relation to access to resources and literacies, faced by higher education institutions. Imported solutions that failed to take into consideration the constraints and cultures of local contexts were less than successful. The paucity of practitioners with blended and online learning design experience, training and education grounded in diverse contexts made local design for local contexts difficult to carry out. Although there is substantial research and guidance on online learning design, there is an opportunity to create a text deliberately oriented to practice. Further, online learning design, as a field of practice and research, is strongly shaped by research, experiences and practices from a hegemonic centre (usually in the Global North, where peripheries also exist). While many of the textbooks written from this perspective are theoretically useful as a starting point, the disjuncture between theory and practice for practitioners in less well-resourced contexts where local experiences are invisible, can be jarring. This book aims to create a space for learning designers whose voices are insufficiently heard, to share innovative designs within local constraints and, in so doing, reimagine learning design in a way that does not reproduce the binary power relations of centre and periphery.
stokry/wp-sqlite: WordPress running on an SQLite database
WordPress running on an SQLite database. Easy to use WordPress implementation with SQLite database. SQLite has the following noticeable features: self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional. Because of the serverless architecture, you don’t need to “install” SQLite before using it. There is no server process that needs to be configured, started, and stopped. In addition, SQLite does not use any configuration files. SQLite allows a single database connection to access multiple database files simultaneously. This brings many nice features like joining tables in different databases or copying data between databases in a single command. SQLite is capable of creating in-memory databases that are very fast to work with. WordPress is much faster and secure with this kind of implementation.
Alt-Text & Ambiguity: A Poetic Approach to Image Description by Alex Haagaard and Liz Jackson – Akimbo
The experience of viewing a work of art is deeply personal. It can make you feel, make you think, make you remember. You may become transported by what the image depicts, or you may become engrossed in the minute details of how colour has been layered, blended or scraped away. A work of art mediates a kind of internal conversation between the artist and each person who experiences the work, and so the experience of viewing an artwork differs for everyone. Image descriptions are one kind of access support that can make works of art more accessible to people who are blind, have low vision, or have other difficulties perceiving or processing visual information. Creating an effective artistic image description means finding a balance between providing enough information for a reader to understand the work of art and leaving enough ambiguity to allow the reader space for reflection and interpretation. This is the reason we favour a poetic approach to artistic image description. Much like looking at a work of art, ambiguity is often an important part of reading a poem. Words and phrases have multiple meanings that shift according to the context of the reader, and which are influenced by the structure of the work itself. These shifting meanings can evoke sensory and emotional impressions, as well as philosophical, historical, and political ideas.
Assessment in the age of artificial intelligence - ScienceDirect
In this paper, we argue that a particular set of issues mars traditional assessment practices. They may be difficult for educators to design and implement; only provide discrete snapshots of performance rather than nuanced views of learning; be unadapted to the particular knowledge, skills, and backgrounds of participants; be tailored to the culture of schooling rather than the cultures schooling is designed to prepare students to enter; and assess skills that humans routinely use computers to perform. We review extant artificial intelligence approaches that–at least partially–address these issues and critically discuss whether these approaches present additional challenges for assessment practice.
🌄 MetaFilter’s rule-laden mini-utopia - New_ Public
This week, we take a closer look at MetaFilter, a very old online forum that’s an exceedingly pleasant place to spend time online, with really high-quality content. For example, let’s say you have Covid, and want some advice on tv shows to stream, but you can’t really handle anything too intense. You could try Googling it, but you’re probably going to get better answers from other human beings. This kind of query is where a high-quality forum like MetaFilter really delivers. It has a ton of amazing things I’d be shocked (and thrilled!) to see larger platforms adopt, from the card club where strangers all over the world mail each other cards, to the one-click “Hide US politics posts” button. What separates a forum like MetaFilter from Quora, Reddit, or even 8chan? The answer is culture — rules and expectations, developed over a long time. To be clear: MetaFilter isn’t good because it has a lot of old rules, it’s good because it has the right old rules. Below, I lay out some unique, interesting qualities that have developed at MetaFilter over the years and how they’ve contributed to a culture that is still thriving after two decades.
While helping Hypothesis find its way to ed-tech it was my great privilege to explore ways of adapting annotation to other domains including bioscience, journalism, and scholarly publishing. Working across these domains showed me that annotation isn’t just an app you do or don’t adopt. It’s also a service you’d like to be available in every document workflow that connects people to selections in documents.
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Rendering simple text tweets with their authors | Twitter v2 API Tips and Tricks | Postman API Network
Let's learn to use Twitter v2 API tweets lookup operations to render simple text tweets and their author just like Twitter does. We'll learn a few things about API design and API documentation in general and Postman based API documentation in particular in the making. I hope this will give you some ideas for the design and documentation of your API.
I scratch-built an entire miniature video store filled with over 400 DVDs. “Beyond Video” is a little surreal video store with a surprise inside. My art often derives from an outside perspective. I am fascinated by windows and the life beyond them. They are places I will never reach, yet love to observe. I like to visually create my own stories, and I think this little “closed” and seemingly abandoned store has a large piece of me within it. It travels deeper than the eye can see, despite how small it may seem on the outside. May the core memory of renting movies live on forever, as far as these hallways will lead.
Going Rogue: Teachers designing their own conferences as a transgressive act (Philippa Nicoll Antipas) – Conference Inference
In this post, Philippa Nicoll Antipas re-considers conferences as sites for teacher professional learning and development. She details her PhD research project Plan D, a game-like collective activity whereby teachers are supported to go rogue and design their own professional learning and development needs.
Phonar: Openly Networked Digital Storytelling - Connected Learning Alliance
Phonar, an abbreviation of PHOtography and NARrative, is an in-person course at Coventry University in the UK and an open online course for as many as 35,000 participants around the world who co-create learning communities through a variety of media including blogs and a blog hub, Twitter (using the #phonar hashtag), and a Google+ community. The class grew out two forces that were created by the advent of digital media and global networks: (1) the problem of how to monetize cultural products such as photographs now that they can be so easily reproduced and distributed; and (2) the phenomenon of open, connected, hybrid courses that take place simultaneously online and in a physical classroom. In Phonar, the subject matter of photography as a vehicle for transmedia storytelling meshes with — and mutually amplifies — the networked forums through which students and instructor communicate.
Home - Ethical photography for social change | PhotoVoice
PhotoVoice works to build a world in which everybody has the opportunity to represent themselves and tell their own story. We work in the UK and internationally with individuals, local communities, and partner organisations. We design and deliver tailor-made participatory photography, digital storytelling and self-advocacy projects for socially excluded groups.
higher education after surveillance – exploring surveillance futures
‘After Surveillance’ is a network of people whose work involves imagining and developing alternatives to problematic visibility & surveillance in higher education. Starting with a series of online meetings in 2019, its aim is to foster conversations, collaborations and exchanges; develop new projects; and serve as a point of connection for work in this area. Questions to address: What are the trusting digital futures we want to see in higher education? What forms of resistance to surveillance are being enacted, and being imagined? What do institutions that foreground trust look like? What could they look like? How do we begin to develop strategies in higher education that account for and work with pedagogical goals and values?
SURVEILLANCE PRACTICES, RISKS AND RESPONSES IN THE POST PANDEMIC UNIVERSITY — Digital Culture & Education (ISSN: 1836-8301)
This paper describes and critiques how surveillance is situated and evolving in higher education settings, with a focus on the surveillance of teaching and learning. It argues that intensifying practices of datafication and monitoring in universities echo those in broader society, and that the Covid-19 global pandemic has both exacerbated these practices and made them more visible. Surveillance brings risks to learning relationships, academic and work practices, as well as reinforcing economic models of extraction and inequalities in education and society. Responses to surveillance practices include resistance, advocacy, education, regulation and investment, and a number of these responses are examined here. Drawing on scholarship and practice, the paper provides an in-depth overview of this topic for people in university settings including those in leadership positions, learning technology roles, educators and students. The authors are part of an international network of researchers, educators and university leaders who are working together to develop new approaches to surveillance futures for higher education: https://aftersurveillance.net/. Authors are based in Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, and this paper reflects those specific contexts.
You’re muted — or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen even when mic is off
Kassem Fawaz’s brother was on a videoconference with the microphone muted when he noticed that the microphone light was still on — indicating, inexplicably, that his microphone was being accessed. Alarmed, he asked Fawaz, an expert in online privacy and an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, to look into the issue. Fawaz and graduate student Yucheng Yang investigated whether this “mic-off-light-on” phenomenon was more widespread. They tried out many different videoconferencing applications on major operating systems, including iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, checking to see if the apps still accessed the microphone when it was muted. “It turns out, in the vast majority of cases, when you mute yourself, these apps do not give up access to the microphone,” says Fawaz. “And that’s a problem. When you’re muted, people don’t expect these apps to collect data.”
How A 1979 Email Chain Letter Helped Give Birth to Our Social Internet
Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol and general internet pioneer, traces the emerging social use of the Internet to an unlikely candidate: a 1979 chain email from MIT’s Artificial Intelligence labs, titled “SF-LOVERS,” that asked Cerf and his colleagues at DARPA and elsewhere in the network of networks called ARPANET to weigh in on their favorite science fiction authors.
Wordle has so many great traits because it’s part of a long tradition that’s been somewhat dormant in pop culture in recent years: it’s made on, and for, the web. It is still truly possible for one person to make a website, without asking permission of any of the giant tech companies, and create an experience that touches millions of people. Maybe it’s to share a meaningful experience, or a fun game, or a weird obsession, or just to tell a story — the web was born to make these things possible. On your own site, though, under your own control, you can do things differently. Build the community you want. I'm not a pollyanna about this; people are still going to spend lots of times on the giant tech platforms, and not everybody who embraces the open web is instantly going to become some huge hit. Get your own site going, though, and you’ll have a sustainable way of being in control of your own destiny online.
Commons In A Box OpenLab (CBOX OpenLab) is free, open source software that enables anyone to launch a commons for open learning. It was created in partnership with Commons In A Box (CBOX) and is modeled on The OpenLab at City Tech, an open digital platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration originally built by and for New York City College of Technology, CUNY. It provides a powerful and flexible open alternative to costly proprietary educational platforms, allowing faculty members, departments, and entire institutions to create commons spaces for open learning. CBOX OpenLab is released under a GPLv3 license from the Free Software Foundation.
Crash Course: Build a Simple Headless WordPress App with Next.js & WPGraphQL - Headless WordPress Developers
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a simple headless WordPress app using Next.js and WPGraphQL. This tutorial assumes a basic understanding of JavaScript, React, and WordPress. Using the prepared GitHub repository will allow us to focus on points specific to Next.js as a framework and Apollo Client for data fetching in WPGraphQL.
Using social annotation to construct knowledge with... | F1000Research
Social annotation (SA) is a genre of learning technology that enables the addition of digital notes to shared texts and affords contextualized peer-to-peer online discussion. A small body of literature examines how SA, as asynchronous online discussion, can contribute to students’ knowledge construction (KC)—or a process whereby learners collaborate through shared socio-cognitive practices. This case study analyzed how SA enabled student participation in seven KC activities, such as interpretation and elaboration.
r/Place and the battle of pixels - The Washington Post
Since Friday, millions of Reddit users have banded together to collectively generate a massive, collaborative piece of artwork that has become a viral phenomenon. Reddit’s r/Place is a subreddit that functions as an open canvas, where each user can post a single, tiny, colored pixel every five minutes. The project began as an April Fools’ Day experiment in 2017, and in its first year more than a million Reddit users placed about 16 million tiles on the blank communal digital canvas. Five years later it’s back, and those numbers have skyrocketed. As of Sunday night, nearly 72 million tiles were placed by over 6 million users, at a pace of more than 2.5 million tiles placed per hour. Because each user can only place a single, tiny tile every five minutes, it’s impossible to build alone. The five-minute wait time throttles any single person’s ability to dominate the canvas. Users are instead forced to work together and build coordinated communities to produce collective works of pixel art.
On Blurry Creatures we talk about fringe creatures. That takes us down the trail of Bigfoot, Ancient Giants, The Nephilim, alternative history and sightings of “beings” that haven’t been proven to exist. Where do they come from? We are out to find better answers for these perplexing questions.
Scrolling through all our images is a strange, introspective, even poignant experience, enough so that people have written songs about it. “Chronological order and nothing but torture” is how the singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves put it on her recent album. And, yes, these archives can be a reminder of lost love or loved ones or simply the relentless passage of time. It’s also a marvelous diary and documentary tool. On one thumbing excursion, I got preoccupied with the hypothetical notion of a historian trying to write somebody’s life story only by looking through their camera roll. The cloud as biographer. Archiving our lives is not new; but the volume we can amass and the ease with which we can do it is new. As writer Drew Austin notes in a wonderful recent piece for Wired, “by fostering the sense that our wells of personal information were bottomless, Google turned us all into information hoarders.”
Transition to web3: a guide for non-technical roles
It can be daunting to make a career shift to web3, especially for those who don’t code. This guide aims to help make a career pivot into web3 less ominous. Let’s get started!
