So fun to talk about BASIC and the Dartmouth Time Sharing System! Visionary computing systems from the 1960s in which ambitious undergrads worked alongside their genius profs.

Public link is up for my podcast interview with Kevin Bunch from Retronauts and computer historian Joy Lisi Rankin on BASIC, DTSS, and a football game from 1965. Very fun! retronauts.com/article/2476...

*TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments* 2025 is out now! 23 innovative and thoughtful assignments including AI, tested by teachers in higher ed, and adaptable to your classes! wac.colostate.edu/repository/c...
#oer #creativecommons #AIeducation

"going at it"

Writing collaboratively with AI Our academic integrity approaches should acknowledge that possibility

On Substack, I wrote about academic integrity and writing collaboratively with AI.

But, more importantly, I featured another AI image designed by my kids. It kinda makes me think about collaborative writing in the landscape of AI. annettevee.substack.com/p/writing-co...

What about AI and Academic Integrity? How to talk with students who have overused AI in your course

In my most recent post for Norton’s Substack, I outline a few ways to approach a conversation with a student who may have overused AI in your class. Ideally, it’s a conversation about writing process. aiandhowweteach.substack.com/p/what-about...

due May 31! wac.colostate.edu/repository/c...

Another positive review of TextGenEd! Thanks, Hua Wang and Composition Forum, for showcasing some of the great assignments in the collection. There are "Continuing Experiments" updates, too--CFP out now if you want to be in the next installment! compositionforum.com/issue/55/rev...

a pixelated chicken holding a sword with overlaid text: are students really cheating their way through college? No.

We have fun here. annettevee.substack.com/p/are-studen...

Do you teach with AI or text-generating technologies? Do you have something cool you want to share in an open access educational resource? TextGenEd's Continuing Experiments is calling for submissions! Due 5/31/25
wac.colostate.edu/repository/c...
#oer #aied #textgened

OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/t...

Altman: I regret my relationship with technology.

Ive: I'm responsible for the anxiety and distractions from seamless technology I designed.

Altman: Are you thinking what I'm thinking??

Altman & Ive: LET'S TEAM UP TO BUILD SEAMLESS AI TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL BENEFIT ALL OF HUMANITY!!

"ALWAYS EXPECT INK" 😅

AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My! The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm

Ben Shindel's rigorous and amazing post breaking down the problems of the materials science AI paper. thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...

Expect AI research to be messy On a recent fraud in AI research

My post, "Expect AI research to be messy" open.substack.com/pub/annettev...

Remember that splashy Nov 2024 AI paper that found that AI improved innovation in materials science? Turns out it was a fraud! I wrote about how we need to "expect AI research to be messy," with a hat tip to Ben Shindel's fascinating post breaking down the problems with the paper. Links in comments.

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"the freedom to speak becomes meaningless when disconnected from the possibility of being heard".
This is a heartbreaking piece from @alondra.bsky.social on the regression of scientific progress and why she's resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress.
time.com/7285045/resi...

I am looking to buy magnets for my son's science fair experiment and I just encountered this poor magnet company that is documenting all the ways the tariffs are screwing it over

thank you, Mark! That's high praise. And, indeed, that's exactly what I was trying to do: understand the complexity through data. The stories are compelling, but each one represents only one data point.

thanks for sharing!

Is this potentially correlation or causation? In other words, does smoking help to disinfect hands? Or did people believe it did? Or not care?

thanks for sharing, Paul!

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

haaaaaa that's a great senior prank!

GenAI Conversations across Pitt's Campuses: Student and Faculty Voices on AI at Pitt-Oakland, Greensburg, Johnstown, and Bradford

Excited to be running this event tomorrow afternoon (Apr 22) with fac from Pitt-Oakland, Bradford, Greensburg, and Johnstown! Join to hear some fresh data about what students are thinking about AI & how they're using it, plus how teachers are engaging with AI. calendar.pitt.edu/event/genai-...

Publication Announcement-Thresholds in Education Special Issue on GenAI Volume 48, Issue 1: Generative AI’s Impact on Education: Writing, Collaboration, & Critical Assessment

I’m pleased to announce the publication of the first of a three-issue special volume from Thresholds in Education about generative AI’s impact on teaching and learning coedited with Stephen Monroe. We have amazing essays from educators. Please give them a read! open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...

It's not possible to dismiss AI in that way if you talk to businesses adopting it, workplace writers integrating it into their workflows (sometimes surreptitiously), or read any of the wave of studies showing widespread adoption. People may have mixed feelings about it, but they're using it.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

thanks so much for reading the collection and writing about it!