Students Are Writing Essays With AI (NYT, Aug 17)

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• H Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app: “Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate v… →
• Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social amplified

  Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social

  The single most important thing I have done in my writing classes since 2023 is teach students how LLMs work--and to create curriculum for this that was adopted across first-year writing at Harvard. Right now we cannot …

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• Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social amplified

  @amandakhurley.bsky.social

  Experts urge schools to keep teaching writing in the age of AI, not even because of its importance per se but because it’s essential to developing habits of mind: “Writing is a technology for thinking” www.nytimes.com/20…

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• A Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social amplified

  @csoleil.bsky.social

  "For students with still-developing minds, the most urgent question, then, is how to protect thinking in a world where it has become so easy to outsource writing." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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• Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social: Many “recorded lower brain activity while they wrote, compared with those who worked without chatbots. The writers who used A.I. struggled t… →