Tag: artificial-intelligence
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Pulling the Plug: Instructure/ Canvas Breach, Educational Data Privacy, and a Call to Reduce/Rethink/Refuse LMS Use
May 12, 2026 Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective May 7, 2026, will long be remembered beyond the end of this spring semester. Not because of any major breakthrough in scientific discovery or even the legal restoration of millions in NEH grant funding previously cut by DOGE. Instead, many in education will remember it as the day their learning…
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Snapshots of Teaching About Surveillance in Secondary & Higher Education
Karon Jones, James Stevens, Makayla Woods, & Charles Woods (East Texas A&M University) Introduction In Summer, 2025, Dr. Charles Woods taught the first offering of ENG 612: Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics. Graduate students in Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics interrogated the rhetorical implications of the privacy-surveillance spectrum throughout local and global culture(s) and focused on the inherent intertwining of rhetoric and…
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The AI Manifesto Assignment
Karon Jones, Tamara George, Thomas Depew, and Charles Woods Introduction 2024 was a busy year filled with updates for our institution. The monumental update was to our university’s name as we officially transitioned from Texas A&M University-Commerce to East Texas A&M University (East Texas). Another critical update was the establishment and launch of a Master’s…
