Mel Riley
@melriley.bsky.social
Educator, diver, environmentalist. It costs nothing to be kind.
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Reposted by Mel Riley
Missed AHA President Michelle Arrow (@michellearrow.bsky.social) on ABC Radio National talking about the future of history at university? Listen here: https://buff.ly/3ZuSIbx
Is history history? - ABC listen
Universities are scrambling to make up the funding shortfalls they'll face because of reduced numbers of overseas students.
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December 2, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Missed AHA President Michelle Arrow (@michellearrow.bsky.social) on ABC Radio National talking about the future of history at university? Listen here: https://buff.ly/3ZuSIbx
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Australia's Macquarie Dictionary crowns #enshittification as the word of 2024
As @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy said earlier this year: "We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit”
As @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy said earlier this year: "We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit”
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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Useful as a tutor, not a substitute for learning or thinking.
AI can help learning... when it isn't a crutch.
There are now multiple controlled experiments showing that students who use AI to get answers to problems hurts learning (even though they think they are learning), but that students who use well-promoted LLMs as a tutor perform better on tests.
There are now multiple controlled experiments showing that students who use AI to get answers to problems hurts learning (even though they think they are learning), but that students who use well-promoted LLMs as a tutor perform better on tests.
November 23, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Useful as a tutor, not a substitute for learning or thinking.
Reposted by Mel Riley
AI can help learning... when it isn't a crutch.
There are now multiple controlled experiments showing that students who use AI to get answers to problems hurts learning (even though they think they are learning), but that students who use well-promoted LLMs as a tutor perform better on tests.
There are now multiple controlled experiments showing that students who use AI to get answers to problems hurts learning (even though they think they are learning), but that students who use well-promoted LLMs as a tutor perform better on tests.
November 23, 2024 at 2:29 AM
AI can help learning... when it isn't a crutch.
There are now multiple controlled experiments showing that students who use AI to get answers to problems hurts learning (even though they think they are learning), but that students who use well-promoted LLMs as a tutor perform better on tests.
There are now multiple controlled experiments showing that students who use AI to get answers to problems hurts learning (even though they think they are learning), but that students who use well-promoted LLMs as a tutor perform better on tests.
Reposted by Mel Riley
Golden bling, ‘sex pot’ ceramics and superheroes: Peruvian empire treasures come to Sydney in new exhibition
Golden bling, ‘sex pot’ ceramics and superheroes: Peruvian empire treasures come to Sydney in new exhibition
The Australian Museum’s Machu Picchu exhibition brings ancient Andean societies to life – and features an extravagant collection of gold
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The Australian Museum’s record-breaking blockbuster Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs was always going to be a hard act to follow.
The great Inca citadel, instantly recognisable as Peru’s world heritage-listed Machu Picchu, is the drawing card for the museum’s major summer exhibition. And while Incan civilisations may not hold the same universal fascination as Egyptology, visitors may be surprised about how little they had known about the complex societies that disappeared with the Spanish invasion, before experiencing Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru.
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www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Golden bling, ‘sex pot’ ceramics and superheroes: Peruvian empire treasures come to Sydney in new exhibition
#nostalgia - are we sure we haven't gone through a time-tavel portal and landed in the 2016 Twitterverse? Tell me I'm wrong...
#feelslikehome
#feelslikehome
November 23, 2024 at 1:15 AM
#nostalgia - are we sure we haven't gone through a time-tavel portal and landed in the 2016 Twitterverse? Tell me I'm wrong...
#feelslikehome
#feelslikehome