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Where is the Love? Compassionate Pedagogy is Needed Now More Than Ever Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hao defined critical compassionate pedagogy as a pedagogical commitment that allows educators to criticize institutional and classroom practices that ideologically place underserved students at disadvantaged positions, while at the same time be self-reflexive of their actions through compassion as a daily commitment (p. Knowledge is power.

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Empower Learners for the Age of AI: a reflection

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

AI advocates argue that by leveraging the power of AI, educators can personalize learning for each student, provide real-time feedback and support, and automate administrative tasks. Like any technology, AI also has its disadvantages and limitations. Critics would argue a classroom without a meaningful human presence is a factory.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s important now more than ever for us to look at our role in this world as public health advocates to avoid negative health events like a global pandemic.” He says individuals can be more effective public health advocates by starting the process while they are undergraduates rather than waiting until graduate school. and Kathy R.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Once recruited, they want and need to be retained, which requires having anti-racist, culturally competent educators who are advocates, upstanders, and allies. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Tanya J. Dr. Donna Y. Fletcher Jr.,

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Beyond transparency in AI

LSE Higher Education Blog

In a follow-up to her post on transparency in AI , LSE HE Blog Fellow Maha Bali brings together a range of voices that highlight various factors related to this issue: care, trust, human agency, criticality, and addressing systemic problems As part of my previous blogpost, When it comes to AI, is transparency enough? ,

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Can AI be Anti-racist?

totallyrewired

A fundamental realization is that technology, despite its dazzling allure, remains tethered to human intentions. Visualize empowering linguistically disadvantaged students with advanced language models, giving them a level playing field. He advocates for the mainstreaming of critical pedagogy.

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Research ethics committees should rethink risk

SRHE

There are good reasons why institutional human research ethics committees (RECs) or research ethics boards (REBs) are needed in higher education institutions – namely, to ensure research participants are treated in accordance with a set of agreed standards and principles. by Jacqueline Stevenson, Tom Power and Alison Fox.