Gary Pavela
@nmna64.bsky.social
Award winning writer and teacher. Author, "Driving Plato's Chariot: Lessons on Student Ethical Development" (Amazon). Co-Founder of the Academic Integrity Seminar. Additional background at: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001KMHFB4/about
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Gary Pavela
@nmna64.bsky.social
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Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot”
Using the power of awe in teaching and learning
medium.com
This essay was developed for the Academic Integrity Seminar. We help students understand how academic integrity is defined, but also why academic integrity is important. Our focus includes intellectual virtues like truth-seeking, and truth-telling. Free Introduction to our book: bit.ly/4l7UPM9.
The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King.
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The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King.
Don't let this happen
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May 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King.
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We live in a contentious world filled with negative role models, making it more important than ever for educators to highlight the many lives of integrity all around us.
Integrity Seminars: bit.ly/42zl0TL
Integrity Seminars: bit.ly/42zl0TL
May 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
We live in a contentious world filled with negative role models, making it more important than ever for educators to highlight the many lives of integrity all around us.
Integrity Seminars: bit.ly/42zl0TL
Integrity Seminars: bit.ly/42zl0TL
A New American Awakening
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A New American Awakening
How the chaos of the phone-based life is giving rise to a quiet revolution in civic life—and what it will take to make it last.
open.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A New American Awakening
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From Academia, a ‘Primal Scream.’
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From Academia, a ‘Primal Scream.’
Watch in real time, as American higher ed goes on offense to defend itself.
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April 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
From Academia, a ‘Primal Scream.’
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open.substack.com/pub/fallows/...
Seminar tutors help students understand how academic integrity is defined, but also focus on why academic integrity is important. They do so, in part, by featuring "lives of integrity" (e.g. Frederick Douglass, Charles Darwin, and Martha Nussbaum).
April 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Seminar tutors help students understand how academic integrity is defined, but also focus on why academic integrity is important. They do so, in part, by featuring "lives of integrity" (e.g. Frederick Douglass, Charles Darwin, and Martha Nussbaum).
Lofoten, Norway, Is an Adventurer’s Paradise in the Arctic www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/t...
Lofoten, Norway, Is an Adventurer’s Paradise in the Arctic
This remote archipelago is a dreamy base for adventure, with backcountry ski slopes reached by boat, hiking trails that offer views for miles and deep fjords to sail.
www.nytimes.com
April 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Lofoten, Norway, Is an Adventurer’s Paradise in the Arctic www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/t...
This essay was developed for the Academic Integrity Seminar. We help students understand how academic integrity is defined, but also why academic integrity is important. Our focus includes intellectual virtues like truth-seeking, and truth-telling. Free Introduction to our book: bit.ly/4l7UPM9.
Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot”
Using the power of awe in teaching and learning
medium.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This essay was developed for the Academic Integrity Seminar. We help students understand how academic integrity is defined, but also why academic integrity is important. Our focus includes intellectual virtues like truth-seeking, and truth-telling. Free Introduction to our book: bit.ly/4l7UPM9.
EXCERPT: "Few administrators have talked about this risk in public, but they take a different tone in private as they try to figure out how broken budgets can be fixed . . . I’ve come to understand that . . .calamity could arrive sooner than people expect."
The End of College Life
If they persist, Donald Trump’s attacks on universities will destroy a cornerstone of American life.
bit.ly
April 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
EXCERPT: "Few administrators have talked about this risk in public, but they take a different tone in private as they try to figure out how broken budgets can be fixed . . . I’ve come to understand that . . .calamity could arrive sooner than people expect."
TAG: Risks of dependence on AI
EXCERPT (from the full report): In both on-platform data analysis and the RCT, we observe that very high usage correlates with increased self-reported indicators of dependence.
Full report PDF: cdn.openai.com/papers/15987...
EXCERPT (from the full report): In both on-platform data analysis and the RCT, we observe that very high usage correlates with increased self-reported indicators of dependence.
Full report PDF: cdn.openai.com/papers/15987...
Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
futurism.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
TAG: Risks of dependence on AI
EXCERPT (from the full report): In both on-platform data analysis and the RCT, we observe that very high usage correlates with increased self-reported indicators of dependence.
Full report PDF: cdn.openai.com/papers/15987...
EXCERPT (from the full report): In both on-platform data analysis and the RCT, we observe that very high usage correlates with increased self-reported indicators of dependence.
Full report PDF: cdn.openai.com/papers/15987...
GP COMMENT: Kindness and social trust are related. Both have significant impact on individual well-being.
World Happiness Report Highlights the Importance of Everyday Kindness
Research finds that kinder countries are happier. Which are the kindest countries around the world?
greatergood.berkeley.edu
March 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
GP COMMENT: Kindness and social trust are related. Both have significant impact on individual well-being.
Thomas Friedman is disturbingly convincing about the challenges we face.
Opinion | A Great Unraveling Is Underway (Gift Article)
Trump’s foreign policy philosophy is not “containment” or “engagement,” but “smash and grab.”
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Thomas Friedman is disturbingly convincing about the challenges we face.