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New MIT report on AI calls for less emphasis on grades, more on project-based learning, recognition that programs for undergraduate research assistants are educational experiences that should not be replaced even if AI agents can do the research for less $$, more emphasis on c…
Worth reading this whole piece, which ends with something that I've been leaning on lately too: the answer isn't to give up. Writing/thinking/learning, all part of making meaning in your life, which kids need and deserve. And good teachers matter! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-…
The person who has 445 AI-generated books on Amazon told @kashhill.bsky.social that “It’s a very romantic concept to sit down and toil, page after page and paragraph after paragraph, but it doesn’t make economic sense.” (I wonder what he would think of Roald Dahl's Great Autom…
From the president of San Jose State who welcomed graduates using her AI avatar and set up the AI Everywhere initiative. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
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 assume students understand this-and it matters. www.nytime…
Curious to see the full announcement tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...
If one of my students wrote this piece, I would ask for evidence that the places named--Chicago and Berkeley--are pretending AI doesn't exist or trying to make it go away. This is the Berkeley policy, which in no way is trying to make AI "simply go away" www.law.berkeley.edu/a…
"Another strategy document describes Alpha’s plans to make Price a social media thought influencer...The document says Price’s content should “deliberately polarize” and that “educational influence belongs to the extremes, not the experts.” www.wired.com/story/alpha-...
Over the 6 semesters that I taught my writing course "To What Problem is ChatGPT the Solution?" (about AI, not using it to write), I saw a clear evolution from openness to AI as a "tool" to serious concerns about cognitive offloading, privacy, and deskilling/1 www.insidehigher…
If I were teaching this course now, I'd give this to my students read it closely with them, not just for what it says about risk but about human agency, for how it lays out responsibility, and for what claims and assumptions it makes without evidence. darioamodei.com/post/we-m…
From the author of The Future of Truth on the fact that his book had ai-generated fake quotations in it. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...
UChicago core social science classes go AI-free: “'we first equip students to read, write, and think without dependence on AI, just as we equip students to read, write, and think beyond the bounds of conventional views or leading ideologies,' the memo reads." chicagomaroon.com…
Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and education". /1
Hear a lot that AI can be used to enhance learning rather than outsource but every day I get emails like this (subject:"Turn big ideas into A work") offering me 50% off Grammarly to generate my work with AI, check it to see if it sounds like AI, then rewrite it with AI to not sound like AI.
Google AI overview: It's like a page from a deranged children's book
Anthropic will pay a human $265,000-$295,000 for this role which suggests among other things that they think someone human should still know how to write and also that the someone who can still write is worth paying $$ and at least on those things we agree.
This is not at all what happens at the Writing Center I run but interesting that Turnitin is suggesting that human tutors are less competent than the "instructor controlled AI assistant"
At my workshop for the wonderful Public AI Summit today, I asked participants why they teach writing. If we know why we're doing something, we can then ask "to what (writing) problem is AI the solution?" There is no AI replacement for thoughtful teachers.
Helping someone postpone jury duty due to a death in their family, and I had to call because couldn't do it online. I spoke to an actual human person and we chatted about death and grief and she was very kind, and I don't think society is better off if we replace all humans with chatbots.
Interesting spread from UC Berkeley newspaper about AI use across the university. A lot about the university using AI in official comms and obituaries (!) but as writing teacher, this caught my eye. I worry about this because of course "organizing thoughts" is of course "thinking" /1
It is hard to figure out if there is an actual literal way to read this ad that is selling a paraphraser to rewrite your paper while telling you that your paper should not be "what AI churns out."
Seeing many critiques of this recent Chronicle piece this week. It fits into a genre I posted about yesterday of setting up a straw man ("go ahead and despise AI all you want"). The faculty I've worked have very nuanced concerns about AI and aren't "pretending AI does not exist" /1
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