Very good development that this thinking is breaking through to the mainstream, as illustrated by @danagoldstein.bsky.social's article in today's Times. Many of us writing teachers have been issuing these warnings for years and now we're having a better conversation. www.nytim…
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Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
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Opinion | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity nytimes.com
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AI Drains Spirit Out of Teaching. We Can Get It Back. insidehighered.com
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AI Scribes in Medicine Are Short-Circuiting Thinking insidehighered.com
We Don’t Need to Retreat From the Challenge of AI in Schools insidehighered.com
Writing Classes Are About Writing, Not AI-Aided Production insidehighered.com
The Worst Use Case for Generative AI is Writing biblioracle.substack.com
The Worst Use Case for Generative AI is Writing biblioracle.substack.com
What’s College for in the Age of AI? insidehighered.com
We made a writing tutor GPT; here’s what we learned theimportantwork.substack.com
Bullet Points: Awareness of the Situation davekarpf.beehiiv.com
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Two encouraging data points on the road to broad recognition that it's important to get students writing, rather than doing automation-assisted document production. 1st from @drrebeccawinthrop.bsky.social on a large study that showed using AI decreases original ideas. www.nyti…
Several times after I've given a talk or workshop about how I think we need to reorient instruction/assessment to deal with the presence of AI I've had senior faculty thank me and say I confirmed their instinct that it's time to move on. I think that's okay. www.chronicle.com/…
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- Fitchburg State English professor Michael Hoberman, 62, is retiring in December after 25 years, saying he doesn't have it in him to fight AI cheating.
- Chronicle reporter Adrienne Lu names five leavers, including Allison Cummings at 61 and Jessica Wolfe, 56, who left a UNC-Chapel Hill chaired professorship.
- Center for Retirement Research data cited by Lu shows 16 percent of postsecondary educators 55+ left within a year of ChatGPT, up from 11 percent.
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Yes: "Our first principle should be to work on making student learning visible to students themselves," writes @biblioracle.bsky.social. This is something we need to be talking about more in this moment when it's so easy for students to simulate learning. www.insidehighered.co…
Professionals have "practices." AI automation that seems to be an aid in terms of efficiency may instead disrupt a meaningful part of the practice. This is happening with AI scribes in medicine. Where is it happening in your practice? www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
I've not digested Pope Leo's encyclical on technology and AI, but it strikes me that in terms of saying something clear in its message, it helps to start from a place of values. Not coincidentally, this is the same advice I give to higher ed institutions. www.insidehighered.co…
From my point of view as someone who works in this space and writes on these issues the forward looking approach is to concentrate on what we know we should still be doing: teach writing, not automation assisted document production. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Those who can incorporate LLMs into their writing without de-skilling, disempowerment and dependence are 1. Rare. 2. Extremely proficient as writers. 3. Very knowledgeable about AI affordances. 4. Extremely vigilant. This is not most students. biblioracle.substack.com/p/the-wo…
The worst use for generative AI is "writing." biblioracle.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
I think schools and colleges/universities should be starting with learning and go from there, but this not the way many seem to be considering AI's impact on education. We have to confront the question of what matters and come up with a satisfactory answer. www.insidehighered.…
This piece by high school students shared at @janerosenzweig.bsky.social's The Important Work should be read by anyone working in secondary education, particularly those responsible for providing the resources for the experiences of learning. open.substack.com/pub/theimpor...
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New blog post, in which I keep insulting the hyperscalers and am appropriately baffled by the past week of Leopold Aschenbrenner's life. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bullet-poi...
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Not sure what this says about me, but the more I explore the capacities of generative AI the less it interests me. I'm not denying its potential power, just that how it does what it does is not nearly as interesting as the thoughts and expressions of some other, any other, human being.
I'm not a generative AI has no use guy at all, but some of the people who have read (or read an AI summary of) my book (More Than Words) and want to convince me that I'm wrong about something other need to lay off the Claude. Their brains are cooked. Two people this month told me they're "cyborgs."
My book (More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI) is obviously targeted towards education leaders/teachers/faculty, but a handful of students have found their way to it and universally tell me that they had never been introduced to writing as an expressive act in school.
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