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Josh Rodda

@JoshMRodda

Learning Development Librarian @UoNLibraries. CILIP @infolitgroup New Professional. Occasional historian and dabbler in comics and weird fiction. He/him.

 Nottingham, England
uk.linkedin.com/in/joshrodda
Joined October 2019
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A sky that is of the blue variety.

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For those still lingering here, Chatting Info Lit, the @infolitgroup new professionals’ podcast, has returned! This episode features interviews with two newly qualified school librarians. Find it on Spotify, Apple, and free on SoundCloud! soundcloud.com/chatting-info…
Episode 9: International Schools (with Jacob Lusk and Eleni Karakosta)

Episode 9: International Schools (with Jacob Lusk and Eleni Karakosta)

After a short hiatus, Chatting Info Lit returns! In this episode, we talk to two school librarians: Jacob Lusk (International School of London) and Eleni Karakosta (Raha International School, Khalifa

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We live in a perilous time when you can learn so much that is true in the right places and so much that is lies in the wrong places. Media literacy is key, and we need the humanities for that.
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Modern existence has become engulfed in sludge. -@edzitron wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-…
And these are issues that hit everything we do, all the time, constantly, unrelentingly. Technology is our lives now. We wake up, we use our phone, we check our texts (three spam calls, two spam texts), we look at our bank balance (two-factor authentication check), we read the news (a quarter of the page is blocked by an advertisement asking for our email that's deliberately built to hide the button to get rid of it, or a login screen because we got logged in again), we check social media (after being shown an ad every two clicks), and then we log onto Slack (and feel a pang of anxiety as 15 different notifications appear).

ALT And these are issues that hit everything we do, all the time, constantly, unrelentingly. Technology is our lives now. We wake up, we use our phone, we check our texts (three spam calls, two spam texts), we look at our bank balance (two-factor authentication check), we read the news (a quarter of the page is blocked by an advertisement asking for our email that's deliberately built to hide the button to get rid of it, or a login screen because we got logged in again), we check social media (after being shown an ad every two clicks), and then we log onto Slack (and feel a pang of anxiety as 15 different notifications appear).

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When they remake one of your favourite games of all time, but it gives you a blinding headache and there are no FOV or motion blur settings on PS5.
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This essay on AI is almost cathartic in the way that it captures and confirms so eloquently how so many of us feel. I think Mr. Chiang has gifted us with something that will be referenced and talked about for a long time. Send it to everyone you know.
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In a new Weekend Essay, Ted Chiang argues that artificial intelligence can’t make real art. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-U…
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Finally Rishi Sunak keeps saying he is fed up of people talking down Britain. Well I am fed up of people talking down universities- which are one of the things the UK can be genuinely proud of.
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#ChattingInfoLit is back, with a documentary-style look at 50 years of Information Literacy! A catalogue of brilliant guests share their memories, experiences, and words of encouragement for new information professionals. On SoundCloud, Spotify, and 🍏! on.soundcloud.com/txAdhQUByj…
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If you're feeling a bit flat after the long weekend, why not check out this fab podcast, so well put together and a real trip down memory lane about the early days of the #infolit community: soundcloud.com/chatting-info…
Beth Morgan (@bethzeh) profile pictureBeth Morgan@bethzeh28 May 2024
Chatting Info Lit presents: IL @ 50! We look back at 50 years of Information Literacy, including how @infolitgroup and @LILAC_conf came to be, and what the future holds. Special guests include @jsecker and @GeoffWaltoniLit to name a few! ⬇️🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/6y3…
Episode 8: IL @ 50

Episode 8: IL @ 50

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Beth Morgan@bethzeh28 May 2024
Chatting Info Lit presents: IL @ 50! We look back at 50 years of Information Literacy, including how @infolitgroup and @LILAC_conf came to be, and what the future holds. Special guests include @jsecker and @GeoffWaltoniLit to name a few! ⬇️🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/6y3…
Episode 8: IL @ 50

Episode 8: IL @ 50

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Hail, Théoden, King.
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New Professionals Committee vacancies infolit.org.uk/ilg-new-profe… #infolit #LILAC24
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Some brilliant speakers at #LILAC24 have sold me on the myriad benefits, accessibilities, and expediencies that careful use of AI will bring. But I am still not sure when conscious thought (and its expression) became such a burden that we should want to outsource it. 1/2
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I only hope that AI will inspire us to greater humanity, more than it anaesthetises us against the human condition. 2/2
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Come and join us, it's an excellent opportunity for professional development and we are a friendly bunch! #InfoLit #LILAC2024
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New Professionals Committee vacancies infolit.org.uk/ilg-new-profe… #infolit #LILAC24
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Do you have an information literacy or teaching tip to share? Head over to the New Professionals table at #LILAC24 for our ‘Take an IL Tip, Leave an IL Tip’ activity!
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AI, education and information literacy: On Wednesday I (and many others) attended a webinar organised by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. A few links that were shared: - mentioned by Joshua Rodda (Nottingham University) was this resource… dlvr.it/T4RjJB #infolit
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If you’re a new professional or attending LILAC for the first time, head over to the First Timers and New Professionals Breakfast! It’s taking place each morning of #LILAC24 before sessions begin, on Floor 1 of the Rose Bowl. (We can confirm the pastry rumours are true!)
Beth Morgan (@bethzeh) profile pictureBeth Morgan@bethzeh18 Mar 2024
Hope to see some fellow new professionals/first-timers at the @LILAC_conf breakfast meet-ups next week! (there are rumours of pastries 🥐)
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A key requirement for being a science fiction writer without losing your mind is the ability to distinguish between science fiction (futuristic thought experiments) and *predictions*. SF writers who lack this trait come to fancy themselves fortune-tellers who SEE! THE! FUTURE! 1
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ALT A Mobius strip made of shiny metal posed on a 'code waterfall' background as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Plamenart (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Double_Mobius_Strip.JPG CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

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New event now bookable - AI and Information Literacy Roundtable. Chaired by @jsecker with @RosieJHJones @Sarahinthelib Anne-Lise Harding and Josh Rodda infolit.org.uk/information-l…
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