Many people struggle with writing – including my students. This is why, I started my WRITING LAB: four 90 min sessions with hands-on advice and exercises. The first session focused on OUTLINING, often the first step in writing. A thread 🧵… My students had to create an outline based on 25 text snippets. This took them way longer (>> 50 min) than anticipated but they still found it a useful exercise. How did I prepare the snippets? I found #ChatGPT to be immensely useful for that task (see picture for prompts).

Having seen yesterday’s thread 👇 you may have wondered whether you need to change your assignments. I have played with one of the leading text-generation tools: Jasper AI – and have since decided to scrap some of my beloved assignments. But see it for yourself! 🧵 1/n

https://twitter.com/herdom/status/1546737117170225152

In our Ethics for the Digital Society course, we ask students to submit several essays (<700 words). One essay topic introduces some politician’s proposal to require a Driver’s License before users are allowed to use the internet. OK, Jasper AI, can you help me with that? 2/n

For tasks such as essays, automated text generation works already quite well. Easily accessible tools will become available to students (almost) for free. As teachers, we will have to adapt our assessments. How exactly? A thread. 1/n For generic writing prompts, students will submit high-quality texts that cannot be spotted by plagiarism detection tools. Thus, fair assessment is not possible with generic writing prompts any more – at least if students work on them on their own (which they should). 2/n

Whether you are interested in #privacy or not, it is fascinating to see what smart devices can tell about us. In a dystopian scenario, the browser game PRISMA D explores and *explains* privacy. survey.prismad.psi.uni-bamberg.de – By playing the game you support a bachelor’s thesis! 🙃 To gather as much data as possible, the (fictive) tech company “PRISMA D” developed a training program. It takes you into the world of smartphones, sensors, fitness trackers, and omnipresent data leeches. Your goal: Know what this data is worth so that you can sell it later on.

Problem: #Fernklausuren sind meist papierbasiert, weil sie ggf. gleichzeitig als Präsenzprüfung angeboten werden müssen. Wir entwickeln/erproben daher an der @uni_bamberg_of eine Lösung für „Fern-E-Prüfungen“, die zu Hause und in Präsenz *direkt am Rechner* bearbeitet werden. Unterstützt werden wir dabei mit einer Sachmittelzuwendung für Laptops vom Bayerischen Kompetenzzentrum für Fernprüfungen. 🙏

I'll summarize our study on app vendors' responses to Subject Access Requests ("What data do you have on record about me?"), which was presented at #ares2020 – and received the Best Paper Award 🥳. @ARES_Conference #sar #apps #privacy #gdpr #dataprotection 1/18 Link to paper (open access): dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…. This was a 4-year longitudinal study (2015–2019) and joint work of Jacob Kroeger (@JWI_Berlin), Jens Lindemann (@unihh) and myself (@uni_bamberg_of). 👀 Watch our 15-min talk on vimeo (vimeo.com/444158701). 2/18