June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
3. I have chosen this type of setting because it makes most scene’s more intense when
looking for a certain character, for instance if the agent was in a chase with someone he
couldn’t escape within a good amount of time due to the amount of traffic and the amount
of people on the street so there is always a sign where he is because of the public
screaming about gun fire or if they are getting pushed over due to the criminal running
away at a fast pace.
I have also chosen this setting because it can show good use of camera angles in a
certain scene, such as a dark back alley, with few people around so this could be a good
place to film a fight between two people such as the agent and a gang member.
Within this Title sequence, the start will track throughout the city and stop in the place
where his wife was murdered by the gang leader. At this point it show’s the agent trying to
self harm him self while listening to the voice of his wife that is on record / repeating the
sound of his wife’s voice.
4.
5. I will keep showing these certain objects because it could represent that a certain
character is near by, because the iconography could represent his signature weapon to
kill people with / agents wife.
Iconography could also be used, to show where he might go next to investigate a
certain crime that has taken place, by the same gang members. My iconography could
also be used to lure people to it so the criminal’s can capture more civilians to make the
agent come closer and closer to there hideout / base, so they can attack him in a group
to give them a bigger advantage of winning the fight.
6.
7. The type of genre I have chosen for this film is a Thriller. I have chosen this genre
because this is my favourite genre if I ever go to watch a film because I like the chain of
events that eventually leads to finding out who the main criminal is, that mainly changes
in to a gun fight to rescue certain people that you may love or just innocent hostages.
Another reason why I have chosen my title sequence to be a Thriller is because most of
these films are mainly based in a city if it is a Action, Thriller. This type of genre will
mainly give the main character a mission to complete, so if someone is in great distress
because she might be being tortured.
8.
9. The cinematography that I will use in my title sequence is mainly a tracking that runs
throughout the city and ends up in a back alley where the retired agent is fighting for his
life because of a stab wound and over his dead wife.
I am also going to use back lighting in my cinematography use because I want it to be a
really dark setting because it will show that he is really depressed because he is in a
dark area and repeatively listening to his wife's voice recording on his phone just before
she died.
10.
11. I will use these types of characters in my film because it makes the film intense
because you are trying to find the person responsible, for either killing someone or
kidnapping someone.
These types of characters are also used to lure the criminals towards his family so he
can take out the terrorist gang one by one and will eventually get to the gang leader so
he can kill / torture him in anyway he wants.
In my title sequence I will use the retired agent character the most because his wife has
just recently been killed and he is fighting depression so he does not commit suicide,
also as he is fighting for his wife he is having flashbacks of his wife and listening to her
voice on a recording constantly.
12.
13. In my title sequence the credits that I will use will be in the colour RED I have chosen
this colour because it will represent many thing such as, Blood, Danger and lots more
due to the fact that there will be quite a lot of action within this film due to his wife’s
death so he is looking for revenge on the terrorist gang to avenge his wife and end his
misery on what has happened.
My title credits will appear on screen in a quick motion so you get about three seconds
to look at the name of the actresses or see the title of the film so it could represent that
it will be quite a fast paced movie so he is pumped to kill his wife’s murderer.
