Just reading through this new OpenAI "teen literacy blueprint document." A few things jumped out. 1) document mentions multiple times that rigorous instruction must be protected but also seems to be suggesting/1 cdn.openai.com/pdf/openai-t...

Just reading through this new OpenAI "teen literacy blueprint document." A few things jumped out. 1) document mentions multiple times that rigorous instruction must be protected but also seems to be suggesting/1 cdn.openai.com/pdf/openai-t...

Time to reread Roald Dahl's "The Great Automatic Grammatizator"

Discussion on here this morning about 1)whether Gemini is good at "creative writing" and 2)a study showing people preferred AI imitations of writers to the writers themselves. I come back to my trusty all-purpose question: What problem are we solving when we outsource "creative writing"?

For an ongoing ed activity in our peer writing center, mentors met in pairs to discuss this post. Here are the discussion prompts we used--please use and adapt as you like! marksheaappliedlinguistics.com/2025/11/19/g...

Discussion on here this morning about 1)whether Gemini is good at "creative writing" and 2)a study showing people preferred AI imitations of writers to the writers themselves. I come back to my trusty all-purpose question: What problem are we solving when we outsource "creative writing"?

Time to reread Roald Dahl's "The Great Automatic Grammatizator"

I’m happy to share my new essay, full of student voices, about using a transparency survey as a tool for reasoning on AI. Reflection is more valuable than ever right now. Maybe this will be of use in your classroom? @janerosenzweig.bsky.social theimportantwork.substack.com/p/the-transp...

Went down rabbit hole trying to predict how AI overviews get things wrong but could not have predicted this one. I never taught at Vassar; she didn't go there; we don't know each other. The source mentions her once, someone else named Rosenzweig, not Vassar. But people use these results as fact.

Put in "Olivia Nuzzi Sam Altman" and got this. If you wanted to know if she had ever written about him, you'd be out of luck (seems to be referring to things she said about RFK) but also this tool needs to be retired.

New in The Important Work: @thevogelman.bsky.social shares his AI Transparency Survey and writes about what he learned when he asked his 10th and 12th grade students to reflect on their AI usage. Here's a bit of what his students shared. Read it here: theimportantwork.substack.com/p/the-transp...

New in The Important Work: @thevogelman.bsky.social shares his AI Transparency Survey and writes about what he learned when he asked his 10th and 12th grade students to reflect on their AI usage. Here's a bit of what his students shared. Read it here: theimportantwork.substack.com/p/the-transp...

Went down rabbit hole trying to predict how AI overviews get things wrong but could not have predicted this one. I never taught at Vassar; she didn't go there; we don't know each other. The source mentions her once, someone else named Rosenzweig, not Vassar. But people use these results as fact.

If you are using google AI overviews for medical advice, cooking advice, car advice, any advice, note that this is not a PhD level intelligence but a word prediction machine that draws from separate articles in the same NYT evening newsletter to produce output like this mixture of multiple stories.

No entry level jobs, no opportunity to get experience doesn't seem like a great recipe for society. @nymag.com: nymag.com/intelligence...

A great thing about kids having imaginary friends is that their conversations are based on the kid's understanding of the world not on training data. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A great thing about kids having imaginary friends is that their conversations are based on the kid's understanding of the world not on training data. futurism.com/artificial-i...

This below is in the context of computer science but we all need to be having this conversation about whether "using AI" in classes prepares you for future jobs or whether actually doing the thing yourself prepares you for a world in which you may or may not use AI. The idea that using AI to write/1

This below is in the context of computer science but we all need to be having this conversation about whether "using AI" in classes prepares you for future jobs or whether actually doing the thing yourself prepares you for a world in which you may or may not use AI. The idea that using AI to write/1

Interesting that an AI introduced to avoid corruption is being framed as a human who has given nepo baby jobs to her 83 kids. www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...

Interesting that an AI introduced to avoid corruption is being framed as a human who has given nepo baby jobs to her 83 kids. www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...

today in automation. discuss

today in automation. discuss

This does not seem like efficiency: "proposals written with the platform’s native AI-writing tool exhibit a negative correlation between effort and signal, and signals no longer predict successful job completion"

This does not seem like efficiency: "proposals written with the platform’s native AI-writing tool exhibit a negative correlation between effort and signal, and signals no longer predict successful job completion"

"I feel much more connected to my students after having engaged with them on this book and reading their journals...I have not felt this energy in a classroom since 2022." I love this so much 🥹

We're back! Today in The Important Work, Helen Choi and Vance Ricks write about assigning @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI to their students in courses where they had not previously assigned books--and how it went. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/we-made-ou...

This won me over immediately.

This won me over immediately.

We've gone from "can AI make art" to "AI is an artist" quite quickly. www.thedailybeast.com/the-no-1-cou...

We've gone from "can AI make art" to "AI is an artist" quite quickly. www.thedailybeast.com/the-no-1-cou...

I have a short piece about what I've learned from teaching my AI course in this @chronicle.com forum on how AI is changing higher ed, along with some very interesting reflections from others, including a lovely piece on why writing matters by @zey.bsky.social . www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

I've been reading more about Ohio State's initiatives and saw this on their teaching and learning website. There are a lot of ways to help students at these early stages of the writing process but I'm not sure what problem is solved by producing "reams of raw content."

I've been reading more about Ohio State's initiatives and saw this on their teaching and learning website. There are a lot of ways to help students at these early stages of the writing process but I'm not sure what problem is solved by producing "reams of raw content."

Also: another good argument for teaching everyone, beginning with kids, how LLMs work, how they're trained, what their output would look like without the existence of human art (or as it's often called these days, "training data.")

This essay is worth a read (by a college student in Ontario). macleans.ca/education/ai...

Here's some of what I've learned.

I have a short piece about what I've learned from teaching my AI course in this @chronicle.com forum on how AI is changing higher ed, along with some very interesting reflections from others, including a lovely piece on why writing matters by @zey.bsky.social . www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

In Perplexity ad, student brags about a paper Comet wrote. We can see the text, which is quite bad. The caricature of "homework" in these ads is interesting: at times selling an important learning tool, while the output suggests most assignments are pointless busy work and there is nothing to learn.

I'm talking about paraphrase in class this week and was curious to know how ChatGPT would fare creating a lesson similar to the one I'm actually using (that I made without AI). I asked for a passage from a real article and then a good paraphrase. It did give me a passage. But the rest? Not great. /1

The LLM paraphrase is more like a game of telephone. Here's a starting point, where might we end up? Anyway, I'll be using my original exercise, which was always the plan--but we'll also take a look at this experiment. /9

Yes, we know about the relentless pivoting and this is just another example. But also: when I teach paraphrase what I'm really teaching is understanding. Can you explain the thing that you read because if you're joining the conversation, you need to understand the conversation? /8

And lo and behold, it agreed with me. /7

not in this passage. I asked ChatGPT about this: /6

But in the paraphrase, this becomes "the author says that stronger mechanisms of accountability must be built into AI governance"--in other words, now the author is making the call rather than reporting that others have called for accountability. Does the author also call for this? Maybe. But /5

In fact, it caved immediately and offered me a "better" paraphrase, which was not, in fact, better. Because, as it turned out, all versions of the paraphrase had a problem beyond the "flow." /3

It gave me a paraphrase of the passage that it said was good. I said, "is that actually a good paraphrase" and it told me why it is good, apparently because the "flow" is different. When I pointed out that in fact this is pretty close to the original, ChatGPT agreed with me, as it does. /2