Rua M. Williams
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This is not an email I ever expected to receive or send.
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The racism behind chatGPT that we aren't talking about...
This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread. 🧵
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I might need to clarify that I am the autistic one. I am not the accuser. The first email was TO me and the second email is ME. Thanks. Hi it's me, I'm the autism, it's me.
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Seeing all my high risk disabled friends who have been isolating for almost 2 years finally catching COVID and fuck this system that wouldn't let us protect each other.
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"it's endemic. We just have to live with it," said the ones who would live, to those that would die.
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Why I don't do point deductions on late work: it's discrimination and it leads to segregation. People who turn in late work are more likely to be neurodivergent students, poor students, students experiencing grief or trauma, students with categiving responsibilities, etc.
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@TweetingDrE
@futuresillydoc
Fortunately I am too chronically dissociated to feel pain. Only trauma laughs.
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I'm just a person with ADHD, married to a person with ADHD, mother to people with ADHD,
Begging my child's kindergarten teacher to stop torturing my family with homework.
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Anyway, if you want your students to stop using chatGPT, then stop being racist and ableist when you grade.
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Wow I haven't gotten this much attention since I told people to stop punishing students with late penalties. Anyway, I'm running a webinar on Executive Function as a fundraiser so check it out.
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ChatGPT is probably pretty good at spitting out the meaningless pleasantries that people associate with respectability. But it's terrible at making coherent, complex, academic arguments!
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So far my favorite response types are
1. Oh no new fear just dropped
2. Damn I wish the meeting was on Tuesday
And
3. If this happened to me I would simply pass away
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They had, a few sentences at a time, completely ruined their own work, and they couldnt tell, because they believed that the chatGPT output had to be better writing. Because it sounded smarter. It sounded fluent. It seemed fluent. But it was nonsense!
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Attention academic burnouts who kept saying yes to things in August because they weren't until October...
It's October.
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DEAR DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTERS:
When a student asks for an accommodation you do NOT go to the faculty and ask "CAN this student have this accommodation?"
You ask "what support do you need so that this student can have this accommodation?"
WHY DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS!?
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Hey. Universities. Are you prepared for widescale grief and trauma counseling for all of your students, faculty, and staff any time a member of the campus community dies?
Because according to these faculty orientations I'm in... Yall DON'T.
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They felt that they were so bad at communicating, because of their language, and their culture, and their head injury, that they would never be a good scholar. They thought they had to use chatGPT to make them sound like an American, or they would never get a job.
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I just drove to campus so that I could upload a file to my Google drive from the parking lot.
It took less than one minute.
At home it would take 4 hours. And I couldn't even just wait it out because our connection kept resetting.
So you know.
Maybe your students aren't liars
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Quietly, they asked, "is it okay to use chatGPT to fix sentences to make you sound more white?"
"... is... is that what you did with the earlier draft?"
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The draft was incomprehensible. Whole paragraphs were vague, repetitive, and bewildering. It was like listening to a politician. I could not edit it. I had to rewrite nearly every section. We were on a tight deadline, and I was struggling to articulate what was wrong ...
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I nearly cried with relief. I told them I had been so worried. I was going to check in with them when we were done, because I could not figure out what was wrong. I showed them thr clear differences between their raw drafting and their "corrected" draft.
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The student also told me that in therapy, their therapist had been misunderstanding them, blaming them, and denying that these misunderstandings were because of a language barrier.
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I told them that I believed in them. They do great work. When I asked them why they felt they had to do that, they told me that another faculty member had told the class that they should use it to make their papers better, and that he and his RAs were doing it.
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I was sad that so many students seemed to be relying on chatGPT to make them feel more confident in their writing, because I felt that the real problem was faculty attitudes toward multilingual scholars.
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I've heard this from other students too. That faculty only respond to their emails when they use chatGPT. The great irony of my viral autistic email thread was always that had I actually used AI to write it, I would have sounded decidedly less robotic.
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I can speak and write in one language with competence. How dare I punish international students for their bravery? Fixation on normative communication chronically suppresses their grades and their confidence. And, most importantly, it doesn't improve their language skills!
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A few weeks ago, I was working on a paper with one of my RAs. I have permission from them to share this story. They had done the research and the draft. I was to come in and make minor edits, clarify the method, add some background literature, and we would refine the discussion.
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They also told me that when they used chatGPT to help them write emails, they got more responses, which helped them with research recruitment.
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so I sent them on to further sections while I cleaned up ... this.
As I edited, I had to keep my mind from wandering. I had written with this student before, and this was not normal. I usually did some light edits for phrasing, though sometimes with major restructuring.
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Yes hi hello, faculty, I'm talking to you. Did you know that if you deny an accommodation request because it "fundamentally alters" the course that what you are actually saying is that your pedagogy is inaccessible and you don't care?
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I was worried about my student. They had been going through some complicated domestic issues. They were disabled. Theyd had a lrior head injury. They had done excellent on their prelims, which of course I couldn't edit for them. What was going on!?
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In fact, the qualitative write-up they had done the night before was better, and I was back to just adjusting minor grammar and structure. I complimented their new work and noted it was different from the other parts of the draft that I had struggled to edit.
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We were co-writing the day before the deadline. I could tell they were struggling with how much I had to rewrite. I tried to be encouraging and remind them that this was their research project and they had done all of the interviews and analysis. And they were doing great.
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I have worked with a number of graduate international students who are told by other faculty that their writing is "bad", or are given bad grades for writing that is reflective of English as a second language, but still clearly demonstrates comprehension of the subject matter.
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Last semester, I gave my graduate students an assignment. They were to read some reports on labor exploitation and environmental impact of chatGPT and LLM. Then they wrote a reflection on why they have used chatGPT in the past, and how they might choose to use it in the future.
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I told them I would not be policing their LLM use. But I wanted them to know things about it they were unlikely to know, and I warned them about the ways that using an LLM could cause them to submit inadequate work (incoherent methods and fake references, for example).
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I believe that written communication is important. However, I also believe in focused feedback. As a professor of design, I am grading people's ability to demonstrate that they understand concepts and can apply them in design research and then communicate that process to me.
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I do not require that communication to read like a first language student, when I am perfectly capable of understanding the intent. When I am confused about meaning, I suggest clarifying edits.
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In their reflections, many international students reported that they used chatGPT to help them correct grammar, and to make their writing "more polished".
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If I were teaching rhetoric and comp, it might be different. But not THAT different. I'm a scholar of neurodivergent and Mad rhetorics. I can't in good conscience support Divergent rhetorics while supressing transnational rhetoric!
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University administrations are confusing* "students wish there wasn't a pandemic" with "students demand to be in person"
*this "confusion" is deliberate and motivated by cash flow
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@Mackeyser
@athundt
Yes I have already been getting reports from students falsely accused of using AI for assignments and they are all ND and many of the faculty involved are not even using ChatGPT detectors and they are just assuming.
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The ADA turned 31 (
#ADA31
) so I'm going to tell you about the ADA case that Universities absolutely would lose if anybody had the resources to bring it to trial.
Spoiler: no one does 🧵
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I'm autistic. Literally none of my expressions are regarded as genuine. And the research says that's on YOU not on me.
(Look up work by Sasson, DART, and AASPIRE. Also: racial, disability, gender, and fat discrimination in medicine.)
#DoctorsAreDickheads
#PatientsAreNotFaking
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@timnitGebru
I've tested my own academic writing, and my sci comm writing, and sections come up as highly likely generated.
Last week I was accused of using AI to write my emails.
I'm a professor 🥴
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One of the worst things pop-social model theory has done is convince neurodivergent folks to disidentify with disability.
This isn’t a take every autistic person will agree with and that’s COMPLETELY okay as this is a personal take.
I’m coming to grips with for me even if autism wasn’t a societal disability (i.e. a result of society’s norms) I would still be disabled.
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Yall. We JUST did
#DoctorsAreDickheads
and now we have to do
#PatientsAreNotFaking
too?
What will it take for medical professionals to see their patients as human, colleagues in care, and not jokes?
That video of the nurse dancing not believing patients has stirred up a lot of trauma for many in the disabled community and BIPOC communities.
People get killed because of that mentality. You did a whole video to tell us you’re bad at your job.
#PatientsAreNotFaking
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Every time you read this tweet and think "that wouldn't work because ____"
The ____ is ALSO something that needs to change.
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Autism Researchers will be like "You're not really autistic, you have a PhD." And then encourage parents to read books by Temple Grandin.
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@mrslorijg
In person I'd probably go blank stammer and cry. On a good day I might just go blank. On the internet I get to be funny.
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Absolutely the worst thing about Sia's Music is how it irresponsibly normalizes prone restraint- Something that many autistic people die from ever year.
IDK who needs to hear this but suffocating an autistic person when they are having a meltdown is not an appropriate response.
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@Horesmi
I think it does seem to be helping people with emails. At least it's helping people get responses to their emails. But emails and academic papers are different.
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It's almost like... The ability to produce spoken words is not in any way related to "wisdom" or cognition...
Signed,
Literally all speech disabled people.
Deaf people
People with affected speech
Autistic people, etc.
Baby Yoda is now a disabled icon.
#SuckItAbleism
If baby yoda is an infant at 50 years old and can’t even speak then I don’t rly understand why he’s ~so wise~ when he’s like 800 ? I thought he just had these long years of obtaining knowledge but instead it takes half a century for him to form a sentence ? Why do we listen 2 him
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Returning to campus as the primary mode of instructional delivery is one thing, rescinding and refusing disability accommodations for continued access to remote and hybrid instruction is another.
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Universities' COVID-19 response confirmed two things:
1. Universities can offer remote instruction as an accommodation for both students and faculty
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Excluding disabled students is not actually a part of your "academic freedom". Imagine telling on yourself like that.
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Unpopular opinion: junior scholars don't need mentorship on how to be great. Senior scholars need re-education about what constitutes greatness.
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All the fired Twitter employees - band together and make a new, accessible, ethical, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial platform called "Bitter"
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I need to hear other chronic pain people's thoughts about the "chronic pain makes your nervous system overactive so train your brain to think about pain differently"... Thing. Because it makes me want to scream and throw shit but maybe I'm just being a dick?
#NEISVoid
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2. Universities affirm that the quality (and cost) of remote, hybrid, or otherwise digitally mediated instruction is equal to fully in-person face-to-face instruction.
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As a disabled person, there is something uniquely terrifying about watching the press gush about the boy with CF who has recovered from
#COVID19
at the same time that ventilator rationing protocols would have put him in the discard pile.
I'm so glad he's alive. To be clear.
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Disabled faculty are by no means safe in the classroom this upcoming fall. Some immunocompromised folks are unable to be vaccinated, or unsure of the efficacy of their vaccinations. Some are so high risk that any chance of infection is a death sentence.
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It's almost like firing people who speak out against inequity is the real cancel culture.
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"The fragility and weakness of my body I can handle. The fragility of the safety net is something I worry about constantly." --
@SFdirewolf
The Year of the Tiger, pg. 61
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Despite these previous positions, Universities are now demanding a return to face-to-face instruction, despite the ongoing pandemic, including risk of breakthrough infection for vaccinated adults, and a completely unvaccinated child (0-11) population.
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Since 2020, I have allowed unconditional remote access to my classes. Any student can attend remotely for any reason, without any obligation to explain.
Today there are students attending remotely because they are afraid. They are afraid and they have been crying.
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Autistic Person: I'm autistic.
NT: You're not defined by your disability 🌈 ♥ 🌟 ♥ 🌈
Same NT: I'm an Autism Mom ™ My identity is defined by my child's tragic affliction ♥ 🌈 🌟 🌈 ♥
Autistic person:?????
#AbledsAreWeird
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I wonder if we could harness the power of autistic "significantly lacks warmth" to reverse global warming?
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@EvelynofTroy
@mouser_online
It was just information 😭 that they asked for 😭 there were ordered lists 😭
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Remote and hybrid instruction is neither an unreasonable burden (as proved by Spring 2020, Fall 2020, and Spring 2021), nor does it interfere with the essential functions of "the position" -- instructing.
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Universities only reason to deny these requests is that such provisions conflict with the /optics/ of returning to "classic" campus experiences, which is a core thread of their /marketing/ but not of their actual function - education.
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The highly infectious Delta variant remains a threat to disabled people and their families under even the best practices of public safety.
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There are many other reasons why a disabled person, faculty or student, would feel unsafe in a University classroom this August. Even with mandatory vaccination, masking, and distancing (which no Universities are ensuring)...
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Me: *tweets in despair about how disabled people are bearing the full brunt of this pandemic alone*
Ableds: "yeah but like. It's fine now. No one is dying anymore."
Me: "... Disabled people are still dying."
Them: "right. No one is dying."
Me: *Jim halpert face*
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What does it take for an institution to be able to legally deny a disability accommodation? They need to prove that it would be an "unreasonable burden" and interfere with the employee's "essential functions of the position".
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Disabled faculty and students are requesting accommodations to remain off campus or to limit in-person exposure through continued access to remote or hybrid delivery of instruction. Many Universities are denying these requests.
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If Universities wanted to claim that remote instruction was ineffective or insufficient, they would have to admit that online programs are an inferior product...
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Also like. Why is this the demand admin capitulate to? Students also demand affordable tuition, access to psychiatric care, accountability for policing disparities, Social justice, divestment from unethical business relations.... But...?
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... and that the quality of instruction during the height of the COVID crisis was an inferior experience DUE TO THE METHOD OF DELIVERY (and not say... global trauma).
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But this is the ADA we're talking about. So it doesn't matter that Universities have no legal ground to deny remote instruction accommodations requests. There is no enforcement without litigation. Litigation takes years.
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Universities are more than capable of maintaining remote instruction accommodations for disabled faculty and students to protect their mortal and psycho-emotional well-being.
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So right now, hundreds if not thousands of contingent disabled faculty are well and truly boned.
Happy ADAversary Everyone 🎉🥳🎉
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An alternative to the elevator that... Is inaccessible to people who literally require elevators to access public and private life.
Perpetuating the myth that elevators are about laziness "don't want to take the stairs? WE MADE VERTICAL PELETON"
You can pedal up buildings in this new vertical bike elevator
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My navigation app just said "there's a disabled vehicle ahead" and immediately I blurted out "it's a vehicle first! It's a vehicle with disabilities!"
And now I am laugh crying and wheezing and my kids are mad because they can't hear their tablets.
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Them: Omg you're so weird. Why do you move like that? Why is your voice so flat? Why do you always wear sunglasses? Omg it's not that loud what's your problem?
Me: I'm autistic.
Them: what? I had no idea. You seem so normal!
#AbledsAreWeird
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It is fully possible, at even some of the least resourced institutions, to have a virtually present instructor in a class of on-site students. Any lecture hall with a projector and a locally available IT staff can accomplish this.
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