Our university voted no confidence for the president, but the BOT won't fire him. They're hiring a consultant firm to manage the crisis. Imagine walking around campus everyday knowing that more than 80% of the people on campus don't believe in you. It's wild.
What's fascinating about this example is that it acts like this isn't happening all over the world in every writing class on campus. We are all finding preposterous numbers of fake citations and research because AI is a giant garbage can. This isn't random.
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The goal is to create feedback seeking habits and to teach students to see feedback as positive and helpful. The only way to teach students how to seek out and value feedback is to give them feedback that makes this move.
I almost always use audio or video to provide feedback on drafts and brainstorming assignments. I always open audio/video comments w "let's chat about your ideas." You can completely transform learning experiences w a few simple feedback moves.
Use feedback as a tool to actually communicate with students. It will change how they understand feedback as a learning tool. I use feedback to 1) answer questions students ask abt the readings and then I 2) provide some more takeaways from the readings so the feedback is like a conversation.
They really want to sell college as job training and placement to the middle and lower class, but wealthy kids at elite schools can major in whatever they want.
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Several grad students noted discussing ideas from class with friends and family and that it was eye opening to see both the resistance and the enlightenment to what they are learning. But they were surprised at how few people know about writing knowledge and how many people won't resist it.
Grad students had an epiphany last night in class when they realized that communicating to people in & out of academia about how writing & learning works in reality is a constant fight that never stops. No one told me that half of my job would be trying to convince people of a few basic concepts.
I lost the energy to do academic conferences like 7 years ago.
It would be cool if the people who actually do all the teaching in composition were able to share their stories and work as easily as the people who theorize and publish about the field but literally never teach comp.
It's just wild to me how AI profit potential means ZERO discussion of cheating and stealing. But regular old plagiarism still punishes students for messing up a quote and citation. These two ideologies exist side by side right now and it's blowing my mind.
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The whole world changes in academia when you find great friends outside of your department.
My issue with a three year degree is that it doesn't really address why students don't finish in 4 years. It just cuts the curriculum. There are systemic issues and financial burdens that lead to extended graduation times that will still exist w a 3 year degree.
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Outsourcing feedback on student writing to AI is absurd. You have to read student writing to understand how they think & write & to help them learn. A language pattern machine doesn't know how to identify learning. I know everything abt student learning from reading & assessing student work.
American exceptionalism has to be the biggest disinformation grift ever.
At what point is the state legally responsible for providing kids with qualified educators?
They can lean on all the pedagogical training they received from educational experts.
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It's just a video game to them
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It's wild that this administration is liberating Iran while it tries to keep people from voting and posting their opinion on social media in the US. Can't believe they used a fake WMD argument to start a war in the Middle East again.
AI makes it really difficult to teach students how to value the hard ass work it takes to be a real expert. It's not a vibe, bro.
People aren't listening to this argument. It's significant. AI requires vetting, so it's a waste of time. It doubles the time needed to assess writing. Everyone has to check all the outputs for inaccuracies and made up sources. It's adding so much UNPAID labor to higher ed.
Writing is literally thinking. You can outsource that thinking to a machine if you want, but there's zero chance that outsourcing your thinking and writing will make you a better thinker or writer. ZERO.
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OMG. Exactly. Here are a bunch of AI tools we want you to use, but we're also going to surveil you for cheating with AI.
It's also absurd that people use Turnitin to catch cheating but then allow students to use AI to write. Huh? Using AI is like using Turnitin's database of student papers to write an assignment. It's just taking someone else's intellectual property.
No. Teachers aren't asking if AI can improve how students write. This is getting absurd. A language pattern machine that plagiarizes does not think or help people write. Or learn how to write. You have to actually write to get better at writing.
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It's pretty wild that students are expected to leave a composition course, an intro to academic writing, as experts in academic writing, but literally no student leaves an intro class as an expert. No one leaves intro to biology as a biologist. It's a bit more complicated than that.
