albertocairo.com
Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
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It still does.
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My thoughts are that one of the first things I'm going to do when my younger kid (whom you just met) enters high school (in August) is to sit with whoever teaches "AI" (a term we must push to abandon) and carefully review the syllabus and activities.
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I fear that the people who most need to read this post often can't read at an adequate level to grasp what it means.
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The story itself isn't bad. But oh boy, that summary...
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We are in #Outlier2025
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the literal history of the united states is groups of americans taking their grievances to the streets, often in ways far more violent than anything we have experienced in a generation
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@frank.computer I'm certain that you're going to enjoy this one...
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That's lovely! Please warn her that there are some misprints on that first edition. The most important one is the diagram explaining the structure of a visualization (see below). She can download all graphics as hi-res PDFs from this link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jkd1e...
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I don't aim for objectivity. My classes are mentorship experiences. Grades are a result of my very subjective —but never arbitrary; I do have a list of things I always look into— assessment, weighed by what each student thinks about their performance.
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Yep
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I agree that it's a problem, which is why I grade in a very particular way (I don't use rubrics, but hold at least four conversations with every student to assess learning and see how they are doing,) and I'm thinking about not giving grades at all. I realize this model won't work in every class
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Yes, I understand the incentives. However they still have agency and part of their education should be to strengthen it.
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+100
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I know; it doesn't work with some grads either but, again, my philosophy is that we're all adults. If they don't follow the advice, that's on them. My role is to mentor, not to police them.
(Combining this approach with exercises executed live in front of you might be a good compromise.)
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(b) more importantly, you'll be lying to someone who's treating you as an equal and a friend, with deep personal and professional respect.
Is that the person you want to become? Just think about it. 3/3
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However, whether you follow my recommendation is not up to me; I'm not a cop, but a colleague and a friend. Perhaps you can easily fool me by using LLMs extensively. But stop to think for a second and you'll understand that (a) you will learn nothing in a class for which you're paying a lot and, 2/x
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I'm upfront by saying: We're all adults here, so I'll treat you as such; not as a student, but as a junior colleague or mentee. I strongly recommend that you avoid LLMs or keep their use to a bare minimum, and that you do your work the hard way, by hand; here's why [explanation here] 1/x