The creators of this call it a "tool for creativity." Trained on "prexisting content," it customizes stories for kids who choose three elements from a set of tiles. Perhaps there's more to it, but it sounds a bit like calling Netflix a tool for creativity because you can choose genres/types/etc.

The creators of this call it a "tool for creativity." Trained on "prexisting content," it customizes stories for kids who choose three elements from a set of tiles. Perhaps there's more to it, but it sounds a bit like calling Netflix a tool for creativity because you can choose genres/types/etc.

I know it's hard to know what to do right now in admissions, but also I just generated this with ChatGPT in less than a minute and it seemed fine. Emphasis on prompt engineering over knowing how to do the thing without AI and/or with seems like maybe it won't turn out to be a measure of much.

Some of these sound like so much more work than just writing the brief.

Some of these sound like so much more work than just writing the brief.

A lot of things are being said every day about AI and education by everyone from teachers to pundits to people who are marketing AI. Over at The Important Work, we've got teachers--and occasionally students--writing about their own experiences in actual classrooms. Our latest: what AI misses when/1

If you teach/write/think about AI, check us out--and consider writing for us. And please share far and wide so we can reach new readers and new writers. /5theimportantwork.substack.com

Before that, high school teacher Clayton Kistner wrote about why he's resisting AI in the classroom. /3 theimportantwork.substack.com/p/i-am-a-pro...

you ask for editing help. Scientific writing teacher Adrian Rowland writes, "LLMs are highly effective at improving cosmetic aspects of prose, but even with specific prompting cannot be relied upon to fix problems of meaning:" theimportantwork.substack.com/p/llms-and-t... /2

Pay a human 30K to name your baby then send them to elementary school with AI teachers.

And before that, just as the school year was beginning, a high school students shared his thoughts about AI (our most-read post to date) /4 theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high...

A lot of things are being said every day about AI and education by everyone from teachers to pundits to people who are marketing AI. Over at The Important Work, we've got teachers--and occasionally students--writing about their own experiences in actual classrooms. Our latest: what AI misses when/1

After a brief hiatus, The Important Work is back this week with Adrian Rowland on the problems of using AI for editing: "There is no reason to expect such a tool to infallibly intuit the unexpressed intent of an author." theimportantwork.substack.com/p/llms-and-t...

After a brief hiatus, The Important Work is back this week with Adrian Rowland on the problems of using AI for editing: "There is no reason to expect such a tool to infallibly intuit the unexpressed intent of an author." theimportantwork.substack.com/p/llms-and-t...

We worry a lot about the dangers of treating/seeing AI as human but I think it's also worth worrying about the dangers of students seeing and thus treating their teachers as...less human.

We worry a lot about the dangers of treating/seeing AI as human but I think it's also worth worrying about the dangers of students seeing and thus treating their teachers as...less human.

Thanks to this post I learned that there are all sorts of new ways to chat with the Post's AI. It will give you advice! Mine came as a 5-paragraph essay that reminded me of the time a student said that an AI summary of something could have been written without reading the original sources.

Thanks to this post I learned that there are all sorts of new ways to chat with the Post's AI. It will give you advice! Mine came as a 5-paragraph essay that reminded me of the time a student said that an AI summary of something could have been written without reading the original sources.

I think this is the first time that an article in @insidehighered.com has followed up on something we published in The Important Work! Link to original piece in next post. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

It's curriculum night season for parents, which makes me wat to bring this one back and see if anyone is talking about AI at those events. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high...

Just submitted a rec letter for the Rhodes and on the final submission page I was asked whether I had used AI in writing the letter (I had not). Curious to know if 1)those who are using AI would say yes in this case; 2) how this info is being used on the other end.

Just submitted a rec letter for the Rhodes and on the final submission page I was asked whether I had used AI in writing the letter (I had not). Curious to know if 1)those who are using AI would say yes in this case; 2) how this info is being used on the other end.

Had a great conversation in class today (class is about AI, not about Gatsby) that started by asking which of these two passages is actually in The Great Gatsby.

Had a great conversation in class today (class is about AI, not about Gatsby) that started by asking which of these two passages is actually in The Great Gatsby.

Much has been said; much has been written but here's another thing. sfstandard.com/2025/09/19/a...

Much has been said; much has been written but here's another thing. sfstandard.com/2025/09/19/a...

It's curriculum night season for parents, which makes me wat to bring this one back and see if anyone is talking about AI at those events. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high...

Whenever I see data like this from Inside Higher ed survey, I want to go back and ask the students these questions: 1. What kind of brainstorming? Did you ask for an idea for your research paper? For a list of points you could cover in your paper? For ideas about how to research your topic? /1

We talk a lot about what K-12 teachers should be doing/talking about with AI, but also: parents. From this article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o... And when you're done reading that, read this, from a high school student: theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high...

We talk a lot about what K-12 teachers should be doing/talking about with AI, but also: parents. From this article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o... And when you're done reading that, read this, from a high school student: theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high...

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Whenever I see data like this from Inside Higher ed survey, I want to go back and ask the students these questions: 1. What kind of brainstorming? Did you ask for an idea for your research paper? For a list of points you could cover in your paper? For ideas about how to research your topic? /1

How near of a future? And will they bring to life both the podcasters and the audience? A podcast version of AI writes the paper and AI grades the paper?

How near of a future? And will they bring to life both the podcasters and the audience? A podcast version of AI writes the paper and AI grades the paper?

New today in The Important Work: high school teacher Clayton Kistner draws inspiration from @bcmerchant.bsky.social's Blood in the Machine and argues that in the classroom, there is no middle ground when it comes to AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/i-am-a-pro...

The two most read and shared pieces on The Important Work to date are the two that include reflections by high school students about how everyone in their schools is using AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high... /1

The two most read and shared pieces on The Important Work to date are the two that include reflections by high school students about how everyone in their schools is using AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high... /1

Read this along with Roald Dahl's "The Great Automatic Grammatizator"

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Good time to repost this one?

there is some distance between education as "crush" your academics as quickly as possible and education as a meaningful experience that is worth discussing

Two pieces by high school students in the same week worth a read (one from The Important Work, one from The Atlantic). theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high... www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I hope those reporting on Alpha read this thread (or better yet, the article). bsky.app/profile/vauh...

there is some distance between education as "crush" your academics as quickly as possible and education as a meaningful experience that is worth discussing

did a bit of a deep dive into the many fake clothing stores in my FB feed--same website, AI-generated photo of the owners who are divorcing/retiring/in financial trouble--soft sweaters and jewelry..but only one "husband closure sale" cestlavie-newyork.com/collections/...

Read this along with Roald Dahl's "The Great Automatic Grammatizator"

followed a link to a clothing store advertised on FB and found this AI-generated couple who, the site tells us, are closing after 26 years due to hard times. A reverse image search shows they are also a different couple retiring from a different clothing business after 35 years.

Two pieces by high school students in the same week worth a read (one from The Important Work, one from The Atlantic). theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high... www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The difference between how AI could be used and how it is likely to be used is something we really need to be talking about more, which makes me want to share this one again. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high...