The Global Society of Online Educators has released its call for 2025-2026 webinar presenters. Deadline July 15! #gsole #literacy #AI

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This poster announces the "GSOLE 2025-2026 Webinars Call for Presenters" on "The Shifting Sands of Online AI Literacy Instruction." The Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) invites proposals from members and non-members for webinars that foster conversation, professional development, and community. Webinar recordings are made available to GSOLE members. Topics of interest include evolving perspectives on AI literacy, AI's intersection with Writing Studies, developing AI literacy frameworks, and the integration of AI in online instruction. A QR code and a URL are provided for proposal submissions.

GSOLE 2025-2026 Webinar Series Call for Presenters!

“The Shifting Sands of Online AI Literacy Instruction: New Debates, Perspectives, and Educational Landscapes”

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50 Years of Research on Writing: What Have We Learned? YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)

My introduction to Peter Elbow was through this mindblowing conversation between him, charles bazerman, george hillocks, and sheridan blau on "50 years of research on writing: what have we learnt." What a loss! His work will continue to inspire our debates:
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I can’t wait to read her book, too. It’s on my list.

I love her and her Instagram work. She’s brilliant.

I loved this conference. I learned so much! Thank you for putting this event together. This has made me want to get involved with GSOLE!

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Where are the Women in AI on Substack? Look here (180+, 27+ countries)! A living list of women & non-binary people who write on Substack about artificial intelligence, machine learning, & data on ethics, privacy, governance, applications, & business. Suggestions welcome!

Where are the Women in AI on Substack? Look here (180+, 27+ countries)! karensmiley.substack.com/p/where-are-the-women-in... (check out this list) #AI

Headspace’s nonsense stories work on this premise & are great. I have found counting backwards in Spanish from 100 (language I’m learning) also works! Thanks for this idea…will try!

Love these posts ❤️ I would have loved to be in a class where we read one sentence 11 times. Passion. In one UG comics seminar, we dissected one comic cover for the better part of 3 weeks. It’s a core memory.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

I feel this way about The Summer Book

I'd like to note the outrage of overediting a Nobel laureate in his area of expertise, and that a lot of writers (including me) have had horrible experiences of overediting in the legacy media: not just changing language but meaning and often values. Making your voice and views into theirs.

I’ve thought about trying to explain Enigma to my 14yo and haven’t tried 😂 They used to play it in the house club we went to in Gainesville. OTOH, Mazzy Star has held up remarkably well.

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Screenshot of post on Language Log: Bill Labov December 17, 2024 @ 7:40 pm · Filed by Cynthia McLemore and Mark Liberman under Obituaries, Sociolinguistics William Labov, known far and wide as one of the most influential linguists of the 20th and 21st centuries, passed away this morning at the age of 97, with his wife, Gillian Sankoff, by his side. Bill is still very alive to us, so many of us, here at Penn. His voice reverberates. Mark is working on a longer, more detailed appreciation. For now, a warm memory. One night over dinner Bill said that when he wrote he liked to imagine a scholar in the library, perhaps in some faraway place or distant future, opening one of his books and finding a useful insight, just as he had from scholars before him. We got to see him receive news about such an occurrence one evening at that same table: a guest hand-delivered, from the hills of Sindhi-speaking Pakistan, a sociolinguistic book inscribed with thanks for his insight, inspiration, and example. Here’s a favorite picture of Bill turning to say goodbye one Thanksgiving afternoon. Farewell, dear friend.

Photo from Language Log of William Labov, dressed in sneakers, a blue nylon-and-fleece jacket, and a distinctive fur hat

Sad news from the linguistics community: the great sociolinguist William Labov has died at age 97 languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399

Brilliant post. My field of Writing Studies has discussed this topic a lot, especially in regard to (the gendered labor) of writing center and writing program administration. I have long been wanting to write about the service mentality in English/writing fields and the harm it causes (women).

That’s good to hear!

With so many of these tools, there are compelling aspects, I get why any teacher would gravitate towards experimenting with them. I did get the ick during Grammarlys OLC presentation. They extremely uncritically approached the grey areas, shutting down counter argument & concerns.

Def didn’t mean to imply you are bringing punishment in. There’s a culture of punishment/surveillance around writing that has had negative effects on how people feel about it. Making process visible is good; question: what might it say about writing culture when asked to produce a report like this?

“Her,” redux. I think a lot about the future landscape of AI bots. I can imagine what it would be like to have a 24/7 scholarly companion that can dissect and challenge my thinking. I also heard a podcast about a person who used AI therapy to get through the pandemic, not a far cry from this.

Also thinking about Brandt’s finding that writing historically has been associated with secrecy/privacy while reading is a family & culturally sponsored activity. How does/doesn’t writing monitoring reinforce the idea that writing (with/without) AI is bad, wrong, punishable, something to hide?

Pre-GPT, for illuminative purposes, I’ve had students turn in recorded sessions of writing, which I’ve watched snippets of. This feels different—invasive and corporate. Do we want to feed Grammarly this student writing data? I wouldn’t agree to using this tool as a student.

Grammarly demoed this @ OLC—it tracks copy paste, but if students re-type content, Grammarly marks it “human-made.” Besides being potentially invasive, it’s inaccurate. Labor issue= having to read each student’s report. I wouldn’t want to turn one in, either! & students will spend time gaming it.

It's not the same as turning up in person, but really cool that the #ascilite2024 papers are all available here so I can go look them all up: publications.ascilite.org/index.php/AP...

How to stop doom scrolling – and have a better experience online with Jay Van Bavel (from ReThinking) Podcast Episode · The TED AI Show · 11/26/2024 · 35m

Adam Grant talks with prof. Jay Van Bavel about viral posts and well being. Bavel discusses research suggesting 10% of social media users produce the majority of viral negative Internet content and that clearing your feed of it has long-term positive effects.

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Thank you! I’m going to take a deep dive over the holiday!

I’ll take a look! Thank you!