Spent even more time looking through the most thoughtful integrations of AI into writing instruction that I can find, & despite the clear care and intention being applied to these projects, I do not see advancements in writing pedagogy. I see novelty injected into the production of written artifacts

Wrote my way into the headline: Is AI Use in Teaching Novelty or Necessity?

Lot of wisdom here from @biblioracle.bsky.social . I think many of us, myself included, felt like our undergraduate experience was one of searching and failure. Education is finding yourself and we shouldn’t give up that in the name of efficiency www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I have seen what progress looks like in figuring out how to teach in a world with AI and it's nothing like what Purdue or Ohio St. are proposing. It's careful, collaborative, and appropriately resourced. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

In every dystopian novel: the government bans books.

In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily.

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is the doctor.

Wisdom is understanding that the doctor IS the monster.

But true enlightenment is only achieved when you do the mash

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

I understand why people in education say they're turning to this technology because they have too much to do and they think it can ease the burden, but this is not an AI problem. It's a labor problem that the AI is only going to make worse over time.

Faculty guidelines and frameworks for using generative AI with their students are often unclear and vague. The institutional silence around faculty AI usage risks sending a message of indifference instead of charting a clear path forward. I created a VALUES framework for faculty to consider.

Because of the structure of school, particularly the stakes of assessment, we gave students methods to avoid the struggle of writing in order to create a more convincing simulation of someone who has written, but we were truly ruining the experience of writing along the way. We made it alienating.

"Perhaps one of the biggest threats that A.I. poses to education isn't that it's going to make educators useless, but that it's going to make educators so much more necessary than we are willing to invest in." – @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Some thoughts on the work of Peter Elbow and how we keep seeming to re-learn what he had to teach us. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...