A lot of people tasked with teaching critical thinking and literacy don't seem to be demonstrating they have their own.... We need to worry about a lack of AI literacy among faculty before we can worry about students.

Paging @melstanfill.bsky.social: Saw this Chronicle story about a startup uni who promised to never have a complicated relationship to federal funding...bc it's U of Austin and is funded by special interests.... www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Just saw this joke: There’s a new genre of music for today’s society. It’s called algorithm and blues. 😂

Please join us for a celebration of Jane Austen on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at the Oakland Center at OU! There will be a talk by Prof. Megan Peiser about her time researching and living in Austen's house, as well as tea, treats, and passages from Austen's works. Register here: tinyurl.com/austenteaparty

Would really like every software and website I use to stop interrupting whatever I'm working on to ask me if I want AI to do the work instead

The cruelest day of the year for the pets. My cat woke me at 5am, deeply concerned he hadn't had breakfast yet. But I also accidentally ate lunch at 10:30, so maybe it's not just pets....

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I don’t know how I’ve gone this long without seeing The Third Man, but I finally did and it’s so good! That final scene …

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Today I said my class should take a 6 to 7 minute break, which prompted a few of them to crack up bc of that dumb meme, and after they settled down, I informed them now there were only 5 minutes left and the joke was on them. I teach college, by the way. College.

Massive content warning for #1 but worth sharing.

Our job is to teach students the critical thinking and literacy skills to realize why this Forbes headline is dumb.

Day three of the work week, and I am encountering my third example of faculty AI illiteracy. Faculty, I am begging you to apply the standards you set for your students to your own work.

I’m not trying to brag, but today I had one of the best classes in 20 years.

Why do I have an entire folder called Slide Templates on my computer and spend hours making beautiful slides? Because this is what I get after SEVEN attempts to have Copilot generate slides with visual design based off my lecture notes.

When you're working on a presentation about the current state of copyright and AI...

Proofs for Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies with @melstanfill.bsky.social submitted. See you all on publication day!

Get to the office to find a voicemail from my dad, complaining about AI. His specific concern: the two letters are often being printed in sans serif and "everybody knows an I has a horizontal line on top and bottom of it." Keeping his eyes on the big issues, my dad.

I'm starting a new research project and if you happen to know anyone who skated in any traveling ice show -- such as the Ice Capades, the Ice Follies, Holidays on Ice, etc -- and they would be willing to be interviewed by yours truly, send me a DM :)

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It is September 21 and it is a cloudy day and this isn’t how it’s supposed to go.

I will add that the Smothers Brothers were also canceled for petty contract reasons TV historians widely believe to be a shield for censorship of their content. And this letter from LBJ is verified by Snopes.

On a related note: All the cranks have included their own AI use or lack of use in their policies, right? We're not just telling students what they're allowed to do but modeling it for them, right?

Faculty using tools for things they are not designed for and are not good at does not contribute to a learning environment where those same faculty can teach students critical literacy skills. I will keep shouting about this forever.

I guess this has reached this platform too. But I don’t make the rules. If you see it, you have to share it. Enjoy!

Thirteen years ago in grad school, we workshopped one of my articles-in-progess in class. Inspired, I said I wanted to go home and immediately work on revisions. The professor told me not to because she hadn't give me *her* feedback yet. I think about this a lot and still don't understand the logic.

I appear to have crossed over into my “Towanda!” era. Be warned.

I told my students it’s my 20th year teaching, and they burst into a spontaneous round of applause. 🥰😭

I have gotten so pedantic in my course syllabi that I now say things like "You have to bring a pen to class" and "You have to take your headphones out when class starts." Is this what we've come to?

An alarming number of academic, peer-reviewed articles have the wrong release dates for films. Small thing? Sure. But indicative of a lack of care that we can't then go criticize our students for.

Copyediting time! Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies, co-authored with @melstanfill.bsky.social, is coming soon.

“It just doesn’t seem like that would actually be useful for many things.” - my 86 year old aunt, upon learning what gen AI is. From the mouths of babes.

This is horrifying in an institution of higher learning, at the place we most expect info literacy skills to be taught. The problem is that students don’t (know how to) use databases and Boolean searches, so tools like AI wizards and assistants seem good to keep students in-house (off Google).

Our library website now prominently links to an "AI" "research assistant" and I want to scream into the void about it. It is so upsetting to see the library, of all places, cave like that (granted, the institution may have forced their hand). Ugh.

Spent the last two days developing guidelines for generative AI use in the College of Arts and Sciences with three other folks - intense conversations, lots of disagreements, lots of exciting ideas about how to protect critical thinking and literacy skills in the coming years.

I’m reading Anne of Green Gables for the first time ever, and we all agree she’s gay, right? I might have read this sooner if you’d have told me.

This Saturday! Hope to see you there!

Absolutely you cannot and must not use generative AI for grading. For so many reasons. And, yes, this includes when your students use it to produce their work in the first place.

So I got interviewed by PBS....😮 www.thirteen.org/programs/boo...

DTE at 12:30: Power should be restored by 5pm. At 5pm: J/k between 7:30 and 11:30 At 11:30: Oops, we meant 3:30am They just make stuff up to keep you from calling them.

The WGA minces no words here.

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Who is making decisions about the messaging of the DNC’s donation asks? I don’t need a political mom guilting me into donating, thanks.

You don't, but your students will use it anyway, so you should still make a plan to teach them ABOUT it.

When your book manuscript that has a section on about the strike was due 9 days before the deal… 🤦🏻‍♀️

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This post doesn't say that the AFT (American Federation of Teachers, a union) is behind this, but I'm gonna guess a lot of folks don't want their union dues used this way. (Someone's going to reply that it's not being funded by union dues. My point stands.)

The time I turned in two book manuscripts on the same day!