This is an excellent pedagogical move. I also ask students to tell me what they changed and why for each draft they produce and it's a great way to identify learning. Metacognition for the win.

Nothing of real value has been done for Americans under this regime, but they do spend a lot of time and $$ legislating ideology like crime.

You too!

Wait until they won't let us teach writing because it promotes individual voice and disrupts AI implementation.

Absolutely. Low class size is the only way to do it right. And we need everyone across the university to support it.

Why is it so hard to understand this math. It's impossible to give students formative feedback on their writing if there are 17+ students in a class. I challenge anyone to teach one of these classes and do all the things and report back about the experience and labor. The class was a marathon.

Harvard Plans to Increase Introductory Writing Course Sizes, Drawing Union Objections | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard plans to increase class sizes in a subset of its introductory writing courses, a move that union leaders said would improperly raise instructors’ workloads during ongoing contract negotiations...

It would cost a few NTT contracts to keep classes low, which we know helps writers grow in writing classes. I've got 25 students in a class and all they do is write and all I do is read it & respond to it. 25x3 big papers = 75 plus drafts, responses, brainstorming

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Hampshire College’s demise is yet another blow to creative, outside-the-box options in higher education Hampshire College’s studen-driven, unorthodox approach to education has roots in the early 1900s and a belief that students should be active, engaged learners.

Maybe they'll build another prison or ICE facility instead, since that's what the US does best. More prisons than colleges in most states.
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Opinion: UCLA must teach students how to use AI as proper tool for learning - Daily Bruin I opened my laptop, stared at a problem I didn’t understand and did what most students at UCLA probably wouldn’t admit to doing. I opened ChatGPT.

What's wild to me is that there is a dire urgency to force people to use AI, but there's absolutely zero urgency to fund public schools and higher ed or to fund robust literacy and writing programs so this is just a massive grift.

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I'm interested in examining disinformation in AI outputs.

Trying to find methodologies for researching how AI works is really difficult. All search returns bring you to links that show how to use AI to research because they're all for sale. Looking for good methodologies for analyzing AI outputs.

Opinion | AI Can Improve Scholarly Writing — If We Use It Right The new tools should sharpen your thinking rather than outsource it.

How does a tool that tries to control thinking actually help sharpen it? These claims sound more and more like AI wrote them. Also, scholarship is highly specific discourses that exhibit epistemic patterns in a field that take a lifetime to understand.
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Try it out with Pennycook's paper on bullshit receptivity. Take the quiz. Notice how the bullshit reads just like AI.
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As AI pushes students to reconsider majors, universities struggle to adapt A recent poll shows AI’s increasing role in how students decide on college majors, creating a rapidly developing situation for universities that are still struggling to determine how the technology…

This is a wild headline. Tech overlords and higher ed grifters and administrators are shoving AI down our throats without any time or compensation to adjust. I'm so sick of this shiz. AI doesn't push anything or anyone.
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This reminds me of every administrator in higher ed who hasn't seen a classroom in a decade but knows teaching and learning better than anyone.

There is nothing more propaganda than a person complaining abt the dangers of the propaganda they are responsible for creating. It's one of the more difficult types of disinformation to undermine. It's a brain freeze.

Can't leave Costco without spending $500 on 4 things, but they also sell hotdogs for $1 and have a value menu.

I'm starting to wonder if American disinformation culture is really just the constant promotion of predatory economic systems that won't allow for accountability.

Another very common pattern in online learning is the first week of class. Submission and activity behaviors the first week of class predict future submission behaviors so helping students be and stay active the 1st is vital for establishing good habits for online learning.

1 piece of learning analytics for online courses that seems to hold true for me the past decade is total page views per week & term. Most students who have close to or over 100 page views a week in an online course tend to have the most success. It's abt reading & rereading assignments and content.

Just spent 4 hours grading and feedbacking my two online writing classes. Wanted to get into the discussion forums a bit more but you have to pick and choose your labor battles in an online course.

Let me see if I can find it and I'll send it to you.

There's a new band in silicon valley:

Vibe Coding and the Douche Canoes

Testing companies have been developing and using machine grading for decades. If you took the GRE in the last decade, the writing sample was graded by AI. It's called an eRater.

The sheer number of anecdotal claims made about AI on a daily basis is evidence that we need to invest in writing and research classes and humans that teach them. Critical analysis has to be taught and learned.

Finally got all my online Gen Ed writing classes on grading contracts. Took a couple years to get it done. Just writing all the contracts takes months cause the language has to be tight. Then you have to run an online class with contracts and see how it goes and then make revisions.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

"Go get your own oil" seems like an impeachable offense.

I'm noticing AI gobbledygook everywhere. At the gym, store, etc. Posters and ads that read like word salad and I hate it. A couple more years of this and no one will be able to write for themselves. You'll ask someone for an opinion and they'll have to consult w ChatGPT first.