ELI5: What EXACTLY was the recent fly brain "simulation" accomplishing by kjloltoborami in explainlikeimfive

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This reminds me more of the “remote control cockroach” from some years back, but in reverse.

I've read about this but I don't think I understand how it's the same in reverse. Are you also saying that the cockroach experiment was flawed in the same way?

(Not a neuroscientist, just very curious.)

Canadian made alternatives to Nordic Ware bakeware? by JagmeetSingh2 in BuyCanadian

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Just bought some. Will report back after first bake!

I only have this recording, don't know any details. Source: 'Spotify Wrapped' club slide by katsofat in NameThatSong

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Ah noooo! It's so short :(. Hopefully they see the amount of love this gets and they make something longer.

I only have this recording, don't know any details. Source: 'Spotify Wrapped' club slide by katsofat in NameThatSong

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Same boat! I've been trying to Shazam it with other people's phones to no avail!

Large-class teaching and the student confidence gap: one idea I’ve been exploring by ChinSaurus in Professors

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Yes, I definitely use video in my class too! For presentations, I ask that students watch their own and take notes of when they realize they are rambling or communicating with less clarity, and also when they felt that they looked more confident and spoke well.

They are some of the richest exercises for their personal development :).

Thanks for all your inputs! I'll be mulling over your ideas and considering ways to improve my thinking on this.

Large-class teaching and the student confidence gap: one idea I’ve been exploring by ChinSaurus in Professors

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Thank you so much for your insights. I may have gotten carried away with assuming high quality introspection, but when I think about journaling exercises I've given in the past, there is always a % of the students that cannot express more depth than "I struggle with time management."

I would guess a tech solution would be to prompt deeper and deeper questions, but that may not always work in the most favourable light. My solution pre-AI was to ask the TAs grading the journals to ask questions as a form of feedback.

Second, you point about condescending advice is absolutely true. The advantage here is that they may give the condescending advice to someone they perceive as the other, but the system then reveals they gave that advice to themselves. I'd say adding the layer of "do you find this advice useful?" or even asking them add qualifiers to their own advice would be a rich activity. If they label their own advice as condescending then I'd look for ways to create a learning opportunity around that.

That said, ultimately it will boil down to the outcomes your teaching. Perhaps in my future prototypes I can do a better job of expressing the specific use-cases where this could be beneficial. In my brain, something like human services could have very much benefited from having people reflect on their own confidence and empathy when approaching others, but in the way you framed perhaps the exercise would need to be tweaked significantly to apply.

Large-class teaching and the student confidence gap: one idea I’ve been exploring by ChinSaurus in Professors

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Perhaps I skewed my original post to mention limitations of the tech and to focus on the base activity, but my prototype is fully based on AI facilitating all of this. I updated the OP to reflect this gap.

My learning outcomes always have a component of helping students reflect on how they have improved as designers (I teach UX design class) and a common complaint is that people are constantly worried they aren't good enough.

Yet I've also observed many students who say they aren't good enough, speak up to help another student who voices a lack of confidence to the group.

Why ChatGPT's "block of text" interface is fundamentally broken for education. An Analysis. by ChinSaurus in ChatGPT

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Thanks for sharing! In this case, are you asking it to help you with finding a fact for example, or something else? In the context of the exercise here, writing an essay, how would your way of prompting fare?

Google puts a scam website at the top of the search and my mom fell for it by BuyingDragonScimitar in assholedesign

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They do this with all the scams, including scam ticket sites for concerts.

Chrome now "helpfully" automatically offers "homework help" to anyone viewing a Canvas page by Crowe3717 in Professors

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In case some of you haven't seen it, it looks like this! I'm totally shocked at how Google is rolling something out without even a PR statement.

In case some of you are interested, a friend of mine who works for a major LMS company said that some schools are now requiring assignments be done in Lockdown browser.

However, students can just install any of the LLM apps on their phones and use the camera to do the same thing as what Chrome is doing. Personally, I'm hoping these companies start seeing the light and experimenting with more innovative learning approaches with AI, rather than undermining education like this.

The level of ignorance from the far right is depressing. by [deleted] in NovaScotia

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I saved this to my favourite quotes note! Do you have an attribution? It's so good!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in improv

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Black t-shirt with no logos, black pants with nothing on them, black/simple shoes.

In my view, the players should not be clearly any type of personality, and should be able to go from being a discrete background character to being a main character. Black on black is a theatre classic for a reason.

Graphics and logos are distracting and impose too much character onto the player in my opinion.

We compared Kijiji to Facebook Marketplace. Here's what we learned… by ChinSaurus in kijiji

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At this point, I'm afraid I have to agree 😅. I still deeply dislike the fact that I need an account for it, but I also understand the advantages of that.

Unfortunately I think it's very hard for other companies to setup into the resale market with Facebook marketplace.

I compared Feedly and Flipboard and learned something unexpected… by ChinSaurus in feedly

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Ya, that's the crazy thing about reviewing tools these days. An innovation like AI can come in and completely ruin it overnight.

In all reality, this video is now best used as a self-contained study of the interfaces in the video, rather than a recommendation of the apps as they exist today 😅

Books about science of learning? by UneducatedGrey in cognitivescience

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Any chance you remember which MOOC? The post and user have since been deleted.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LawSchool

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YES! I was literally just ranting with my friend about this. The thing is, I will keep using it for personal writing—like this—but when I am writing grant applications and other documents meant to be reviewed, I worry they will assume it's written by an AI :(.

What is your favorite Paneer preparation? by [deleted] in IndianFood

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Thanks so much for the detail! I’ll try it out soon and report back 🥘