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  1. Mar 2024
    1. She grades their results as if they haddone the writing entirely on their own.

      Surprising: This definitely surprised me seeing a professor going so far as to treat the result as if the students have done the writing entirely on their own. It definitely clashed with my previously held belief.

    2. “You will be expected to use AI generative tools in thisclass, following the instructor’s permissions and directions,”

      Interesting: I find this very interesting. This is the first time I have seen AI, when mostly prohibited or looked down upon in classroom setting is being used purposefully.

    3. Some, for example, require ascreenshot or link to the original text produced by the AI program, so they cansee how the student altered it.

      Troubling: It seems like this AI tool has become such a menace to both teachers and students in the acedemic realm and at this point I feel like it is doing more harm than good. Because students use it as a shortcut and professors are also worrying a lot more and requiring a lot more procedures just to grade an assignment such as:(screenshots, links, and even requirement them to submit notes and other artifacts of their work process) I feel like all this will only slow down the grading process and put more unecessary work for the ones in the teaching position.

    4. That small number may simply reflect that professors who hadexperimented with AI — even if they concluded it is a danger to learning —probably had more reason to write to us.

      Many students don’t know how to use AI correctly.

  2. Feb 2024
    1. Faculty members have begun using it tohelp them design their courses, viewing it as a tool that can make instructionmore effective and engaging.In his business-communication class, Carl Follmer, director of the FrankBusiness Communication Center in the University of Iowa’s Tippie College ofBusiness, created an AI chatbot he calls Impy.

      professors are using AI to enhance teaching, like creating chatbots and improving lesson plans, showing AI's potential to improve education.

    2. Some faculty members said theyfeared colleges failed to recognize the potential dangers of AI, and argued for acomplete ban, better detection tools, and a return to in-class, pen-and-papertest-taking.

      I think that we should learn how to use AI correctly,not using it to cheat

    3. That small number may simply reflect that professors who hadexperimented with AI — even if they concluded it is a danger to learning —probably had more reason to write to us.

      It was surprising for professors to realize that many students had limited knowledge about AI

  3. Oct 2023
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmita

      During shmita, the land is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity, including plowing, planting, pruning and harvesting, is forbidden by halakha (Jewish law).

      The sabbath year (shmita; Hebrew: שמיטה, literally "release"), also called the sabbatical year or shǝvi'it (שביעית‎, literally "seventh"), or "Sabbath of The Land", is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah in the Land of Israel and is observed in Judaism.

    1. There are several occasions where the massebah is not associated with pagan worship. When the massebah is associated with the worship of Yahweh, the massebah is accepted as a valid expression of commitment to Yahweh.

      Massebah for pagan worship: - Exodus 23:24 (https://hypothes.is/a/r3m5QmyDEe6SC8eLYcJE1Q) - Hosea 10:1 (https://hypothes.is/a/4PK2GGyDEe6wZg_r2YpVCA ) - 2 Kings 18:4 - 2 Kings 23:14

      Massebah for worship of Yahweh: - Genesis 28:18 Jacob's pillow (https://hypothes.is/a/NF5p8Gx6Ee65Rg_J4tfaMQ)<br /> - Genesis 31:44-45 Jacob and Laban's covenant - Exodus 24:4 - Joshua 24:25-27

    2. in violation of the demands of the covenant, the people of Israel erected sacred stones dedicated to other gods (Hosea 10:1). In their religious reforms, both Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:4) and Josiah (2 Kings 23:14) destroyed the sacred pillars which the people of Israel had dedicated to the worship of Baal.
    3. During the establishment of the covenant between Yahweh and Israel, the people were commanded to destroy the sacred stones of the Canaanites, “You must demolish them and break their sacred stones (masseboth) to pieces” (Exodus 23:24).

      In neighboring cultures in which both have oral practices relating to massebah, one is not just destroying "sacred stones" to stamp out their religion, but it's also destroying their culture and cultural memory as well as likely their laws and other valuable memories for the function of their society.

      View this in light also of the people of Israel keeping their own sacred stones (Hosea 10:1) as well as the destruction of pillars dedicated to Baal in 2 Kings 18:4 and 2 Kings 23:14.

      (Link and) Compare this to the British fencing off the land in Australia and thereby destroying Songlines and access to them and the impact this had on Indigenous Australians.

      It's also somewhat similar to the colonialization activity of stamping out of Indigenous Americans and First Nations' language in North America, though the decimation of their language wasn't viewed in as reciprocal way as it might be viewed now. (Did colonizers of the time know about the tremendous damage of language destruction, or was it just a power over function?)

  4. Mar 2022
    1. The historic books of the Bible were written by a “Yahweh only party” and are thus keenly critical of the worship of other gods in Judah. Still, it is clear from their description that polytheism was the norm in the First Temple period. It was only during King Josiah’s reform that the "Yahweh only party" really took control and began pushing other gods out of Judean minds.

      Polytheism was the cultural norm during the First Temple period. It wasn't until the reforms of King Josiah described in 2 Kings in the second half of the 7th century BCE that other Semitic gods were actively removed from the Temple and parts of culture in favor of Yahweh.

    2. The Bible also recounts that the ancient Hebrews worshipped a god named Moloch, who was associated with the Ammonites and with child sacrifice. This worship too was stamped out by Josiah in the same reform (e.g. 2 Kings 23:10).
    3. Yet the ancient Hebrews clearly adored them just like the other West Semites did. Ezekiel (8:16) recounts seeing people worshiping the sun in the Temple. We can infer this because the bible specifically condemns their worship, and we are told that Josiah took actions to stomp out the cult in the late First Temple period, the second half of the 7th century B.C.E. These actions included removing cult objects from the Temple itself (2 Kings 23:11).
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