"My choosing not to use AI as a tool is not because I don’t understand it, but rather it’s because I do understand it."
🙏 from @susangbarber.bsky.social
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“The Teacher/Writer series challenges the prescriptive and standardized educational status quo, and fires the imaginations of those hungry for greater depth as both teachers and as writers.”
And that’s just the preface!
This is going to be an excellent read.
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Thank YOU! I needed this one today.
@annieabrams.bsky.social "In English class, teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care and pleasure, and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new." So grounded. So sane. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
IDK seems like a bad idea to offer cover to a social arsonist…also Common Sense Education and OpenAI partnered to produce an industry-friendly AI literacy curriculum so 🤷🏼
Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic: "'We’re at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out what’s working and what’s not working.'"
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Thanks @alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @antoniospadaro.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social @sohrabahmari.bsky.social @daviddark.bsky.social for inspiration. And the Pope, too.
New piece up on Pope Leo's "Drawing Maps of Hope": zachczaia.substack.com/p/discerning...
"We should also imagine new tripartite forms, such as AI ethics boards that place organized labor and civil society (including the Church) across the table from technologists." @sohrabahmari.bsky.social Yes. New essay up in @commonweal.bsky.social . www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
Everything is so stupid
"Big Tech and data center developers appear to be siting data centers in vulnerable communities...These locations show a troubling trend - they primarily impact working class and Black and Latine communities."
The cover of One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This. Simple red background, with bold black all caps letters, and the drawn silhouette of a bomb plummeting towards a child. The gold "National Book Award Winner" sticker is on the upper right.
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
High school student email gassing up a sensitive middle-aged writer
I’m good in the hood.
Last week, I gave a talk pushing back against claims that AI will democratize education, and I included this slide meant to trouble narratives - and self-serving programs like OpenAI's new "free" ChatGPT for teachers - that focus narrowly on access to technology as some kind of transformative force.
#SundayMacbethChat intro page
Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
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I'm actually doing Macbeth next semester, too! (Probably February/Marchish) Been digging in to The Folger Guide on it, and resource seems pretty good. www.folger.edu/teach/folger... But would love to hear how you're approaching.
Shout out to @marcusluther.bsky.social and @mrneibauer.bsky.social for sparking this piece. As well as Ross Gay's beautiful book, INCITING JOY. Here's link to Broken Copier ep: substack.com/home/post/p-...
What do playing with toddlers and almost becoming a professional clown have to do with teaching? They remind me of why I fell in love with teaching. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky
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"To tell students not to use AI for the work that was AI-generated for us is, in my opinion, beyond ridiculous. She wants to know what we know. It’s only fair that the same should apply to teachers." Thanks, Scout Snider, for telling it like it is. And @jsanofranchini.bsky.social for sharing.
Thanks for inspiration on this piece to @susangbarber.bsky.social @arielsacks.bsky.social Ellen F. Davis, and Robert Frost. And can't forget Eric and Tami Taylor.
"Never a Dull Moment, Babe": Notes on Surprise--in Teaching, Writing, and Publishing
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AI is not a mere tool for helping teachers. When you remove the human element of teaching and learning, you are not being more efficient nor effective. The ability to learn is what makes us human, and humans teaching humans is a fundamentally human act that is necessary for meaningful engagement.
Teachers! If your students are using AI to write their papers, maybe it's because you personally are not using AI enough. Here's my new @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-n...
This is some great satirical writing, a la Swift's Modest Proposal! I think it would be fun to take class with @taliaargondezzi.bsky.social
"Scrupulous and well researched, this is a much-needed portrait of an often-overlooked area of American Catholicism." ~Publishers Weekly #Racism #Identity #Religion
Read the review: https://bit.ly/4mGTM6z. BLACK AND CATHOLIC by @tiaphd.bsky.social is coming soon!
It is important to not mistake the demands of the job for your real work in the classroom. Show up for the students in ways that count the most and that the system can’t measure. That’s where your agency lives. Where your work matters most. #EdChat #EduSky
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My new essay on AI (www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/) includes quotes from, or links to, writings by @emilymbender.bsky.social, @palan57.bsky.social, @stopgenai.com, @ddmeyer.bsky.social, @zachczaia.bsky.social, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social, @garymarcus.bsky.social ....
