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Folks in NZ are starting to realise the implications of the impending EOL of Microsoft Windows 10 for our education system. In its finite wisdom, our MinOfEd has effectively locked all schools into either the use of MS Windows or Google ChromeOS. Both have fundamental issues like endless license hassles, EOLing OSs, ending support for Window or ChromeOS on specific computer models, etc. And that doesn't even start to talk about digital colonisation & sovereignty (see

Trump To SCOTUS: Let Us Dismantle Education Dept - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/trump-to-scotus-let-us-dismantle-education-dept/

If it keeps going like this, we’re gonna run out of popcorn…
Speaking of — I work in film education. If someone wrote a script containing the exchange between these two over the past 18(?) hours, we would laugh them out of the room for creating something waaay too unrealistic.

People on the right side of history don’t do such things. https://mastodon.social/@7sleepersmusic/114636247251864809

The lack of history education shows when you hear people about current times, ofcourse history never repeats itself exactly, but many of the same patterns and mechanisms we have seen in fascism and autocracy are visible. Read some history be less amazed and better prepared.
#history #fascism

U.S. Department of Education Notifies Columbia University's Accreditor of Columbia's Title VI Violation (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-notifies-columbia-universitys-accreditor-of-columbias-title-vi-violation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p128#a250604p128

Bei dem Begriff "AI Literacy" handelt es sich um ein Oxymoron:
https://open.substack.com/pub/themindfile/p/against-ai-literacy-have-we…

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon, in a statement, said Columbia’s leadership
“acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students on its campus”
and urged the accrediting body to keep the department informed of any actions taken to ensure Columbia’s compliance with accreditation standards.
“Accreditors have an enormous public responsibility as gatekeepers of federal student aid,” McMahon said.
“Just as the Department of Education has an oblig…

✨ Spring SIGs wrapped! ✨
From Prague to Paris to Ispra, 4 GÉANT Special Interest Groups (SIGs) met to explore AI, Time & Frequency networks, service strategy development, and network operations.
Spring days packed with great ideas, useful insights, new collaborations, and our beloved Lightning Talks.
👏 Big thanks to CESNET, RENATER, EC JRC & all who joined in-person and online.
Catch up on all the highlights and takeaways here 👉

GÉANT Community Programme | GÉANT CONNECT Online
The GÉANT community programme supports research and education through the activities of Special Interest Groups and Task Forces and connects academia, the business community and governmental organisations.

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."
"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

The FOMO about the 10-year University of Cambridge REAL Centre Anniversary Celebration Conference is *real*.
If you can't be there in person, join online.
Incredible lineup.
12 June 2025
https://www.eventbrite.co…

Towards Effective Multidisciplinary Health and HCI Teams based on AI Framework
Mohammed Almutairi, Diego G\'omez-Zar\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05226

Towards Effective Multidisciplinary Health and HCI Teams based on AI Framework
As a Ph.D. student with a diverse background in both public and private sectors, I have encountered numerous challenges in cross-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder team projects. My research on developing team compositions that involve multidisciplinary members from fields including education, academia, and health. Along with my advisor, we are focused on exploring how HCI can help individuals assemble more effective teams. This effort involves developing socio-technical systems that guide and …

FYI, some private foundations have stepped up to provide grants for #STEM #Education and #Research, as a stop gap for those whose federal grants have been terminated:

How pathetic is it that the Secretary of Education had cards with the answers to questions given to her?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKfezL7O046/LNeGcEq37-Kw

France has been developing its own digital tools and platforms for governmental use. I hope other countries follow suit, rather than relying on Google or Microsoft for government and education systems: https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/uploads/DINUM-roadmap_EN.pdf

The US Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, seemingly does not know about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre or Ruby Bridges:
“I will look into it and get back to you.”
https://bsky.app/profile/popcrave.com/post/3lqsmomv2rk2i

Fact Sheet: Russia's Kidnapping and Re-education of Ukraine's Children
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/fact-sheet-russias-kidnapping-and-re-education-of-ukraines-children/

LOL… I didn’t think it was possible and I guess Santa Ono didn’t either.
His hasty resignation from #UMich seemed like a safe move but it is never safe to depend on a public sector taken over by Fascists.
#Florida #Michigan

Board votes against Santa Ono as UF president amid conservative protest
Florida’s higher education board late Tuesday voted against confirming Santa Ono as the next president of the University of Florida after questioning …

Please join me on July 7th for next month's MediaEd Club webinar for the Media Education Lab: "Privacy, Power, and Platforms"
https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/privacy-power-and-platforms
If you missed today's / this month…

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement
https://ift.tt/62WwFxk
updated: Monday, June 2, 2025 - 12:14amfull name / name of organization: Louisiana State University…
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Student Perspectives on the Benefits and Risks of AI in Education
The use of chatbots equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) in educational settings has increased in recent years, showing potential to support teaching and learning. However, the adoption of these technologies has raised concerns about their impact on academic integrity, students' ability to problem-solve independently, and potential underlying biases. To better understand students' perspectives and experiences with these tools, a survey was conducted at a large public university in the Uni…

Happy Pride! Everyone deserves dignity and respect at every stage of their life - including end of life. Help your loved ones and community celebrate you properly and appropriately by doing all your advance planning now -just think of how hard you'll party when it's done 🎉🌈
Got questions? I'm here to help and I am an ally and safe space for everyone in the LGBTIQA community and the kink community.

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ABCDEFGH: An Adaptation-Based Convolutional Neural Network-CycleGAN Disease-Courses Evolution Framework Using Generative Models in Health Education
With the advancement of modern medicine and the development of technologies such as MRI, CT, and cellular analysis, it has become increasingly critical for clinicians to accurately interpret various diagnostic images. However, modern medical education often faces challenges due to limited access to high-quality teaching materials, stemming from privacy concerns and a shortage of educational resources (Balogh et al., 2015). In this context, image data generated by machine learning models, partic…

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GETReason: Enhancing Image Context Extraction through Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reasoning
Publicly significant images from events hold valuable contextual information, crucial for journalism and education. However, existing methods often struggle to extract this relevance accurately. To address this, we introduce GETReason (Geospatial Event Temporal Reasoning), a framework that moves beyond surface-level image descriptions to infer deeper contextual meaning. We propose that extracting global event, temporal, and geospatial information enhances understanding of an image's significanc…

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Trump Administration Attacks Columbia's Accreditation (Douglas Belkin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-administration-attacks-columbias-accreditation-54e4fa72
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p123#a250604p123

AI's real threat to education isn't that it encourages students to cheat, but that it short-circuits the learning processes needed to use generative AI adeptly (Nicholas Carr/New Cartographies)
https://www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-of-automated-lear…

The Myth of Automated Learning
AI's real threat to education.

Ma base de données de sujets du bac en philosophie est enfin Š jour, et toujours disponible sur la Forge des Communs Numériques Éducatifs :
#laForgeEdu
#RessNum
#MastoProf
#TeamPhilo
#teampro
#philosophie
@…

Encouraging Students' Responsible Use of GenAI in Software Engineering Education: A Causal Model and Two Institutional Applications
Vahid Garousi, Zafar Jafarov, Aytan Movsumova, Atif Namazov, Huseyn Mirzayev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00682

Encouraging Students' Responsible Use of GenAI in Software Engineering Education: A Causal Model and Two Institutional Applications
Context: As generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot become pervasive in education, concerns are rising about students using them to complete rather than learn from coursework-risking overreliance, reduced critical thinking, and long-term skill deficits. Objective: This paper proposes and empirically applies a causal model to help educators scaffold responsible GenAI use in Software Engineering (SE) education. The model identifies how professor actions, student factors, …

A Hierarchical Integer Linear Programming Approach for Optimizing Team Formation in Education
Aaron Kessler, Tim Scheiber, Heinz Schmitz, Ioanna Lykourentzou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02756

A Hierarchical Integer Linear Programming Approach for Optimizing Team Formation in Education
Teamwork is integral to higher education, fostering students' interpersonal skills, improving learning outcomes, and preparing them for professional collaboration later in their careers. While team formation has traditionally been managed by humans, either instructors or students, algorithmic approaches have recently emerged to optimize this process. However, existing algorithmic team formation methods often focus on expert teams, overlook agency in choosing one's teammates, and are limited to …

Multi-Tool Analysis of User Interface & Accessibility in Deployed Web-Based Chatbots
Mukesh Rajmohan, Smit Desai, Sanchari Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04659

Multi-Tool Analysis of User Interface & Accessibility in Deployed Web-Based Chatbots
In this work, we present a multi-tool evaluation of 106 deployed web-based chatbots, across domains like healthcare, education and customer service, comprising both standalone applications and embedded widgets using automated tools (Google Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, SiteImprove Accessibility Checker) and manual audits (Microsoft Accessibility Insights). Our analysis reveals that over 80% of chatbots exhibit at least one critical accessibility issue, and 45% suffer from missing semantic str…

Education Dept. says Columbia fails to meet accreditation standards
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/trump-columbia-education-antidiscrimination.html

#NowPlaying - my proper canterbury education carries on with henry cow's 1973 debut, like "weasels ripped my flesh" era mothers, but british leftist instead of californian libertarian (not that they really sing much here) & a notch less manic.

"Rufo, Vance, and Co. are, however, right that right-wing ideological hegemony is harder to maintain when sites of education and knowledge production allow young people to learn, find each other, and challenge received wisdoms."
On the current goals of the destruction of the US education system. (Also provides background and lists some issues with the current system; but, obviously, none of that is fixed by what happens now.)

It doesn't take much to create a #fedi alternative to #Linkedin. We just need structured profiles (featuring experience and education) and posts (that let people know if they could still apply or position is taken).

New blog post by a colleague: Will quantum computing topple SAML?
https://trustandidentity.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/05/16/will-quantum-computing-topple-saml/

Will quantum computing topple SAML? - Trust and Identity
  The UK federation is arguably one of the largest SAML federations in the Research and Education sector, with over 1200 member organisations spanning Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE), and with significant representation from the research and commercial sectors. We are a trust broker. A level playing field. We help people securely access […]

Au Québec aussi: "déjŠ interdit en classe depuis l'an dernier, le cellulaire devra bientôt être rangé dans les casiers jusqu’Š la fin des cours."
#enseignement

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

"Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education"
#Nigeria #Climate #ClimateChange

Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education
An unusual subject has found its way into the curriculum of schools in Niger: trees. As municipal authorities across the Sahel country work to adapt to extreme heat and other effects of climate change, the value of urban forestry has gained increased recognition. “This is really an opportunity to combat climate change and poverty at […]

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Enumerate-Conjecture-Prove: Formally Solving Answer-Construction Problems in Math Competitions
Mathematical reasoning lies at the heart of artificial intelligence, underpinning applications in education, program verification, and research-level mathematical discovery. Mathematical competitions, in particular, present two challenging problem types: theorem-proving, requiring rigorous proofs of stated conclusions, and answer-construction, involving hypothesizing and formally verifying mathematical objects. Large Language Models (LLMs) effectively generate creative candidate answers but str…

There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, but education is [yet another part of our society that is] completely unprepared to deal with generative AI.
Teachers Are Not OK
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

Lessons from Harlem
#nyc #music

Lessons From Harlem - The American Scholar
A white blues player’s streetside education

Comment je gère en partie l'ordinateur des enfants #education

The End Of Universal Lifelong Identifiers: Identity Systems For The AI Era
Shriphani Palakodety
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02027 https://

The End Of Universal Lifelong Identifiers: Identity Systems For The AI Era
Many identity systems assign a single, static identifier to an individual for life, reused across domains like healthcare, finance, and education. These Universal Lifelong Identifiers (ULIs) underpin critical workflows but now pose systemic privacy risks. We take the position that ULIs are fundamentally incompatible with the AI era and must be phased out. We articulate a threat model grounded in modern AI capabilities and show that traditional safeguards such as redaction, consent, and access c…

The Education Vigilante - Existential Comics https://existentialcomics.com/comic/604

Notice scientists aren't exactly beating down Canada's door either.
Perhaps if we funded post-secondary and research. 🧐
or maybe even provded tuition some or all free education like most of those in this list
#braindrain #education https://mas.to/@mikegalsworthy/114584609202908831

Ontario to give education minister power to more easily take over school boards - because as we all know Centralization is the Future because everyone already knows absolutely everything is already monitored and directed by a very busy single old bearded man living somewhere in heaven¹, so the method must be sound? #BurlingtonNews
https://www.burlingtontoday.com/ontario-news/ontario-to-give-education-minister-power-to-more-easily-take-over-school-boards-10729990
¹ actually he lives in Tokyo, operating out of a small office on the 13th floor.

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement
https://ift.tt/62WwFxk
updated: Monday, June 2, 2025 - 12:14amfull name / name of organization: Louisiana State University…
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The Trump people have just announced that they have sent a letter to Columbia’s accreditor, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, accusing Columbia of being in violation of civil rights law.
My initial reaction is that this is good news since it implies both that Columbia hasn’t further caved-in yet and makes clear that the Trump people have run out of ammunition

The Situation at Columbia XXIII
This week I’m very happy to not be at Columbia, and not in the US, enjoying spending the week at the Perimeter Institute at a conference in honor of Lee Smolin. Since there’s a little b…

The QTF-Backbone: Proposal for a Nationwide Optical Fibre Backbone in Germany for Quantum Technology and Time and Frequency Metrology
Klaus Blaum (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics), Peter Kaufmann (German National Research,Education Network, DFN), Jochen Kronj\"ager (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), Stefan K\"uck (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), Tara Cubel Liebisch (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), Dieter Meschede (University of Bonn), Susanne Na…

The QTF-Backbone: Proposal for a Nationwide Optical Fibre Backbone in Germany for Quantum Technology and Time and Frequency Metrology
The recent breakthroughs in the distribution of quantum information and high-precision time and frequency (T&F) signals over long-haul optical fibre networks have transformative potential for physically secure communications, resilience of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and fundamental physics. However, so far these capabilities remain confined to isolated testbeds, with quantum and T&F signals accessible, for example in Germany, to only a few institutions. We propose the QTF-Back…

Using Code Snippets to Teach Programming Languages
Joshua Akingbade, Jianhua Yang, Mir Seyedebrahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00404 https://

Using Code Snippets to Teach Programming Languages
Coding is a fundamental skill required in the engineering discipline, and much work exists exploring better ways of teaching coding in the higher education context. In particular, Code Snippets (CSs) are approved to be an effective way of introducing programming language units to students. CSs are portions of source code of varying size and content. They can be used in a myriad of ways, one of which is to teach the code they contain as well as its function. To further explore the use of CSs, a …

Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p120#a250604p120

Good thread from @… about education, tolerance, double meanings:
#education #academia

(1/3) Please join me today on Zoom at 12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT for "Beyond the Algorithmic Feed," a free MediaEd Club webinar for the Media Education Lab:
https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/beyond-algorithmic-feed
While som…

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Balancing Efficiency and Equity in Classroom Assignment under Endogenous Peer Effects
This paper presents a three-step empirical framework for optimizing classroom assignments under endogenous peer effects, using data from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS). We design \textit{PeerNN}, a neural network that mimics endogenous network formation as a discrete choice model, generating a friendship-intensity matrix ($Ω$) that captures student popularity. \textbf{Step 2: Estimating Peer Effects.} We measure the peer effect friends' average 6th-grade class rank weighted by $Ω…

The Pursuit Of MiSELF
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

The Pursuit Of MiSELF | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Pursuit Of MiSELF Host: Rayne Bryant Category: Education Sub-Category: Self Development & Advice First Episode: 2025 Here we take ownership of our healing, we rewrite the rules…

Education Department pausing plan to garnish Social Security checks over defaulted loans
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5329805-education-department-pausing-plan-garnish-social-security-checks-defaulted-loans/

pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata

Animals are abused and exploited in various ways for the sake of entertainment. LCA strongly opposes the use of animals in entertainment.
Animals have their own needs, interests, and rights, especially the right to engage in their natural behaviors in their natural habitat. https://www.lcanimal.org/…

Record number of applications for next fall's entering class! Find out more in this new article at YDS News. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/record-number-applications-received-yds-entering-class

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%,
Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year.
Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say.

“TNC is where it all comes to life.”

In this video message, our CEO Lise Fuhr shares excitement ahead of her very first TNC, and why this global gathering matters so much to our Research & Education community.

Watch her personal welcome message below, as we all get ready for next week’s #TNC25 in Brighton 🇬🇧

And if you’re not coming in person, don’t forget to g…

Innovative Tangible Interactive Games for Enhancing Artificial Intelligence Knowledge and Literacy in Elementary Education: A Pedagogical Framework
Nikolaos Sampanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00651

Innovative Tangible Interactive Games for Enhancing Artificial Intelligence Knowledge and Literacy in Elementary Education: A Pedagogical Framework
This paper presents an innovative pedagogical framework employing tangible interactive games to enhance artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge and literacy among elementary education students. Recognizing the growing importance of AI competencies in the 21st century, this study addresses the critical need for age-appropriate, experiential learning tools that demystify core AI concepts for young learners. The proposed approach integrates physical role-playing activities that embody fundamental A…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

from my link log —
DIY book lamp: simple electronics meets paper craft.
https://www.voltpaperscissors.com/diybooklamp
saved 2025-04-27

Easy DIY Book Lamp for Kids (11+) and adults — Volt, Paper, Scissors!
I invented this DIY book lamp to introduce children to electronics. I use it in STEM education, but it turns out to be a fun project for adults too.

Judge preserves Education Department injunction over time extensions for states’ Covid fund spending | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-preserves-education-department-injunction-over-time-extensions-for-states-covid-fund-spending/

Florida higher ed board stuns UF, blocks Santa Ono from becoming president (Alan Festo/The Gainesville Sun)
https://eu.gainesville.com/story/news/education/2025/06/03/board-of-governors-rejects-santa-ono-as-university-of-florida-president/84007003007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p149#a250603p149

How a Duke Student Became Part of China's PR Campaign #China

How I Accidentally Became Part of China’s PR Campaign
Dozens of Duke University students signed up for a free trip to China. Even the university was surprised by what happened when they got there.

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

Trump's Education Secretary mocked after critics spot embarrassing grammatical errors in threatening letter to Harvard
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14685541/Trump-Education-Secretary-critics-spot-e…

The #DefendResearch team, through the efforts of @… , is maintaining a list of public statements supporting research & higher education against threats from the Trump administration. Please submit any that are missing.

Physics Will Cause the Economy to Shrink; a Look at the Next Ten Years
Our Finite World https://ourfiniteworld.com/2025/05/27/economic-contraction-coming-right-up/

Physics Will Cause the Economy to Shrink; a Look at the Next Ten Years
The world is hitting both energy and debt limits. Modeling and history show the expected results. Governments are particularly hit, as is higher education.

Very glad to see that CSUN's president has joined the AAC&U open letter "against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education"
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-e…

FPF Releases Report on the Adoption of Privacy Enhancing Technologies by State Education Agencies
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-report-on-the-adoption-of-privacy-enhancing-technologies-by-state-education-ag…

[2025-06-05 Thu (UTC), 1 new article found for physics.ed-ph Physics Education]
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🎉 perfSONAR turns 20! 🎉
What started with a single line of code in 2001 has grown into a worldwide network performance monitoring infrastructure, spanning all 7 continents with:
✅ 20 years of continuous operation
✅ 6 leading R&E networks driving its development
✅ over 2,000 registered instances deployed across 1,000 organizations
Learn more about perfSONAR’s journey and impact over the past 20 years:

perfSONAR Celebrates 20 Years of Simplifying Global Research Collaboration Through Standardized Network Measurement and Testing | GÉANT CONNECT Online
April 2, 2025 — The global research and education (R&E) community is celebrating a major milestone in high-performance networking and collaboration: the 20th anniversary of perfSONAR. Since April 2005, this powerful, open-source toolkit has enabled researchers and network operators to measure and troubleshoot performance across diverse network environments. perfSONAR’s reach has extended to all seven

A former leader of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during the Obama and Biden administrations
called the Trump administration’s targeting of undefined diversity, equity and inclusion legally spurious
and urged colleges and universities to stand up for their values.
At a panel last week at the annual Education Writers Association conference here,
Catherine Lhamon said it’s “enormously frustrating to me to see the federal government use its voice to sa…

Biden Civil Rights Chief: Trump Anti-DEI Orders Aren’t Law
Catherine Lhamon joined the American Council on Education’s president and a student in criticizing the current federal administration’s targeting of universities over diversity, equity and inclusion.

BREAKING: Trump admin must process education grants "without delay" (Adam Klasfeld/All Rise News)
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/linda-mcmahon-grants
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p138#a250603p138

Animals are abused and exploited in various ways for the sake of entertainment. LCA strongly opposes the use of animals in entertainment.
Animals have their own needs, interests, and rights, especially the right to engage in their natural behaviors in their natural habitat. https://www.lcanimal.org/…

Hierarchical Bayesian Knowledge Tracing in Undergraduate Engineering Education
Yiwei Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00057 https://arx…

Hierarchical Bayesian Knowledge Tracing in Undergraduate Engineering Education
Educators teaching entry-level university engineering modules face the challenge of identifying which topics students find most difficult and how to support diverse student needs effectively. This study demonstrates a rigorous yet interpretable statistical approach -- hierarchical Bayesian modeling -- that leverages detailed student response data to quantify both skill difficulty and individual student abilities. Using a large-scale dataset from an undergraduate Statics course, we identified cl…

Join us for the book launch of 'Transforming Development in Education: from coloniality to rethinking, reframing, and reimagining possibilities'.
A crucial time given the widespread changes to the global education and development architecture.
When: Tuesday, 18 March 2025 at 9 am EST | 3 pm CEST

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A Human Study of Cognitive Biases in CTF Challenges
Cybersecurity training has become a crucial part of computer science education and industrial onboarding. Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions have emerged as a valuable, gamified approach for developing and refining the skills of cybersecurity and software engineering professionals. However, while CTFs provide a controlled environment for tackling real world challenges, the participants' decision making and problem solving processes remain under explored. Recognizing that psychology may play a …

Russie, un peuple qui marche au pas – Documentaire complet - YouTube
#russie

Bring Back Racist Mascots or New York’s Education Funding Gets It | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/linda-mcmahon-trump-massapequa-chiefs/

How a Duke Student Became Part of China's PR Campaign #China

How I Accidentally Became Part of China’s PR Campaign
Dozens of Duke University students signed up for a free trip to China. Even the university was surprised by what happened when they got there.

eduGAIN is expanding across Africa! 🌍
Five new countries: 🇹🇬 Togo, 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso, 🇲🇼 Malawi, 🇬🇭 Ghana, and 🇹🇿 Tanzania have joined, bringing the total on the continent to 14. 🎉
At the heart of this progress is eduID.africa (by UbuntuNet Alliance & WACREN under #AfricaConnect3), and now more researchers and students can now access global services with one trusted identity.

Five new African members join eduGAIN! | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Today, online services are crucial for research and education. These can be for e-learning, teaching and conferencing, scientific collaboration, analysing and sharing data, accessing journals and libraries. Access to these resources is usually controlled with a user name and password. As the number and variety of services expand, often being delivered by service providers outside

Machine vs Machine: Using AI to Tackle Generative AI Threats in Assessment
Mohammad Saleh Torkestani, Taha Mansouri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02046 https:…

Machine vs Machine: Using AI to Tackle Generative AI Threats in Assessment
This paper presents a theoretical framework for addressing the challenges posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education assessment through a machine-versus-machine approach. Large language models like GPT-4, Claude, and Llama increasingly demonstrate the ability to produce sophisticated academic content, traditional assessment methods face an existential threat, with surveys indicating 74-92% of students experimenting with these tools for academic purposes. Current respon…

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/05/29/aesthetic-education-from-sensibility-to-critical-engagement

Designing the Future of Entrepreneurship Education: Exploring an AI-Empowered Scaffold System for Business Plan Development
Junhua Zhu, Lan Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23326

Designing the Future of Entrepreneurship Education: Exploring an AI-Empowered Scaffold System for Business Plan Development
Entrepreneurship education equips students to transform innovative ideas into actionable entrepreneurship plans, yet traditional approaches often struggle to provide the personalized guidance and practical alignment needed for success. Focusing on the business plan as a key learning tool and evaluation method, this study investigates the design needs for an AI-empowered scaffold system to address these challenges. Based on qualitative insights from educators and students, the findings highlight…

Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet
For decades, the federal government has used data analysis to ferret out race and sex discrimination
-- winning court cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing and across American life.
Now the Trump administration is working to unwind those same cases.
The administration is unwinding settlements built on “disparate impact,” -- which holds that even neutral policies can lead to …

Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet
The administration is dismissing cases and unwinding settlements built on « disparate impact, » which holds that even neutral policies can lead to biased outcomes.

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Look what came in the post!
Transforming Development in Education: From Coloniality to Rethinking, Reframing and Reimagining Possibilities with my chapter:
'Why is Epistemic Humility Provocative? A reflexive story'.
Through storytelling, I address epistemic humility as the explicit acknowledgement of the limits of knowledge and raise questions of 'just survival' and 'positionalities at play'.
Video:

International Journal of Education (IJE) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/05/30/international-journal-of-education-ije

Human Empathy as Encoder: AI-Assisted Depression Assessment in Special Education
Boning Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23631 https://

Human Empathy as Encoder: AI-Assisted Depression Assessment in Special Education
Assessing student depression in sensitive environments like special education is challenging. Standardized questionnaires may not fully reflect students' true situations. Furthermore, automated methods often falter with rich student narratives, lacking the crucial, individualized insights stemming from teachers' empathetic connections with students. Existing methods often fail to address this ambiguity or effectively integrate educator understanding. To address these limitations by fostering a …

Distinguishing Fact from Fiction: Student Traits, Attitudes, and AI Hallucination Detection in Business School Assessment
Canh Thien Dang, An Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00050

Distinguishing Fact from Fiction: Student Traits, Attitudes, and AI Hallucination Detection in Business School Assessment
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes integral to the society, the ability to critically evaluate AI-generated content is increasingly vital. On the context of management education, we examine how academic skills, cognitive traits, and AI scepticism influence students' ability to detect factually incorrect AI-generated responses (hallucinations) in a high-stakes assessment at a UK business school (n=211, Year 2 economics and management students). We find that only 20% successfully identified …

📣 Another great milestone for the #GÉANT project!
The GN5-1 project has successfully completed its final review by the European Commission—recognising strong performance, technical achievements, and commitment to innovation and sustainability, all aligned with the Horizon Europe programme’s goals.
👏 A big thank you to all contributors involved. Your dedication continues to drive our …

GÉANT’s GN5-1 Project completes another successful EC Review | GÉANT CONNECT Online
GÉANT’s GN5-1 project has successfully completed the Period 2 review by the European Commission (EC), marking another key milestone in the project’s continued delivery of cutting-edge networking and collaboration services to Europe’s research and education community. The review, which took place at the end of March 2025, covered the second reporting period of the project.

The updated budget reiterated Trump’s pursuit of deep reductions for nearly every major federal agency,
reserving its steepest cuts for foreign aid,
medical research,
tax enforcement
and a slew of anti-poverty programs, including rental assistance.
The White House restated its plan to seek a $33 billion cut at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, for example,
and another $33 billion reduction at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Trump Officials Unveil Budget Cuts to Aid for Health, Housing and Research
The new blueprint shows that a vast array of education, health, housing and labor programs would be hit, including aid for college and cancer research.

"Job Corps, established as part of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, is a free residential education and job training program for low-income people between 16 and 24 years of age."
Labor Department suspends Job Corps centers operations, drawing bipartisan pushback
https://thehill.com/business/budget/5325826-labor-department-job-corps-centers/

Evaluating Gemini in an arena for learning
LearnLM Team, Abhinit Modi, Aditya Srikanth Veerubhotla, Aliya Rysbek, Andrea Huber, Ankit Anand, Avishkar Bhoopchand, Brett Wiltshire, Daniel Gillick, Daniel Kasenberg, Eleni Sgouritsa, Gal Elidan, Hengrui Liu, Holger Winnemoeller, Irina Jurenka, James Cohan, Jennifer She, Julia Wilkowski, Kaiz Alarakyia, Kevin R. McKee, Komal Singh, Lisa Wang, Markus Kunesch, Miruna P\^islar, Niv Efron, Parsa Mahmoudieh, Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny, Sara Wiltb…

Evaluating Gemini in an arena for learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform education, but the research community lacks a robust, general benchmark to evaluate AI models for learning. To assess state-of-the-art support for educational use cases, we ran an "arena for learning" where educators and pedagogy experts conduct blind, head-to-head, multi-turn comparisons of leading AI models. In particular, $N = 189$ educators drew from their experience to role-play realistic learning use cases, interacting with two models se…

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Reality Check: A New Evaluation Ecosystem Is Necessary to Understand AI's Real World Effects
Conventional AI evaluation approaches concentrated within the AI stack exhibit systemic limitations for exploring, navigating and resolving the human and societal factors that play out in real world deployment such as in education, finance, healthcare, and employment sectors. AI capability evaluations can capture detail about first-order effects, such as whether immediate system outputs are accurate, or contain toxic, biased or stereotypical content, but AI's second-order effects, i.e. any long…