Dan Martin
@danmartin7.bsky.social
Writing, Rhetoric, Multimodality @ CWU: History of composition & standardizing writing; feedback & assessment; and multimodal pedagogies. Digital rhetoric & disinformation.
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https://paulmartin61.wixsite.com/mysite/cv
When I studied professors using video feedback to respond to student writing for 16 weeks, each video was on average 2 mins & 23 seconds & 354 words. Nearly 3x's the word count of each professor's written feedback. I examined over 100 pieces of video feedback.
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
When I studied professors using video feedback to respond to student writing for 16 weeks, each video was on average 2 mins & 23 seconds & 354 words. Nearly 3x's the word count of each professor's written feedback. I examined over 100 pieces of video feedback.
It's the big beautiful 50 year mortgage that's like a school loan that won't ever decrease in principle until you pay three times the amount of the loan.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It's the big beautiful 50 year mortgage that's like a school loan that won't ever decrease in principle until you pay three times the amount of the loan.
All the joy from the election wins last week has been completely erased this week with Dems voting to increase healthcare (surprise) and Trump erasing the history of his insurrection w pardons.
The pardon covers 77 people, including members of the president’s former legal team, including John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
Trump Pardons Giuliani And Others Allegedly Involved In Bid To Overturn 2020 Elections
The pardon covers 77 people, including members of the president’s former legal team, including John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
www.forbes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
All the joy from the election wins last week has been completely erased this week with Dems voting to increase healthcare (surprise) and Trump erasing the history of his insurrection w pardons.
There has never been a time in my entire working life where I got to keep an increase in wages. Every time I get a raise something else increases & gobbles up the increase & then some & now I'm actually making less. Insurance, health care, food, gas, anything, everything going up all the time
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
There has never been a time in my entire working life where I got to keep an increase in wages. Every time I get a raise something else increases & gobbles up the increase & then some & now I'm actually making less. Insurance, health care, food, gas, anything, everything going up all the time
Doing your own research is becoming synonymous with asking AI and it's not great.
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Doing your own research is becoming synonymous with asking AI and it's not great.
The recommendation for overcoming flight delays during the government shutdown is to buy a refundable plane ticket for an extra $300. Sure. Great advice. So much winning.
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The recommendation for overcoming flight delays during the government shutdown is to buy a refundable plane ticket for an extra $300. Sure. Great advice. So much winning.
It's wild how the media refers to the Trump administration like a corporation. "The trump administration has stock or ownership in these companies now" or "the trump administration made profits on " How is that even possible? How can an office that serves the people become an entity that owns stock.
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's wild how the media refers to the Trump administration like a corporation. "The trump administration has stock or ownership in these companies now" or "the trump administration made profits on " How is that even possible? How can an office that serves the people become an entity that owns stock.
YouTube and Disney selling us their public fight over how much they can raise everyone's bill every month is so wild. Two giant, greedy media companies arging over what's fair and equitable for their profits.
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
YouTube and Disney selling us their public fight over how much they can raise everyone's bill every month is so wild. Two giant, greedy media companies arging over what's fair and equitable for their profits.
As someone who researches and publishes on feedback I can assure you feedback is where most of the teaching takes place in writing classes. Facts. Outsourcing that move is outsourcing teaching. Just get out of teaching then.
I understand the instinct. Grading/giving feedback is easily the part of teaching that demands the largest investment of cognitive load and time.
It's also literally where 90%+ of ACTUAL LEARNING happens. It *is* the work. That's why it's hard. That's why it's important. That's why it's human.
It's also literally where 90%+ of ACTUAL LEARNING happens. It *is* the work. That's why it's hard. That's why it's important. That's why it's human.
The faculty who say we should use AI to grade/give feedback because it's a way for us to "reclaim our time."
Line in the sand.
It isn't our time. It's theirs. If you have such little respect for your students and their time, quit.
Disrespectfully, the rest of us.
Line in the sand.
It isn't our time. It's theirs. If you have such little respect for your students and their time, quit.
Disrespectfully, the rest of us.
November 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
As someone who researches and publishes on feedback I can assure you feedback is where most of the teaching takes place in writing classes. Facts. Outsourcing that move is outsourcing teaching. Just get out of teaching then.
Reposted by Dan Martin
Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
When all the institutions expected to generate the profits for AI don't want AI, there's going to be a problem. The entire country is going back to low tech, bluebook style teaching to avoid this garbage tool. Nobody wants AI. The evidence is pretty clear.
Tech companies are pouring money into AI, and they’re not making it back. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how everything could come crashing down:
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
bit.ly
November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
When all the institutions expected to generate the profits for AI don't want AI, there's going to be a problem. The entire country is going back to low tech, bluebook style teaching to avoid this garbage tool. Nobody wants AI. The evidence is pretty clear.
When I see these kinds of correlations and stats, I think about the amount of college educated people I know who can read that have voted for this chaos.
54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level. That should tell you everything you need to know.
The question of "why do people vote against their self-interest" is pretty self-explanatory when you look up the literacy rate in local schools.
We have high schools with a literacy rate of 32%.
Thirty-two percent...
We have high schools with a literacy rate of 32%.
Thirty-two percent...
November 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
When I see these kinds of correlations and stats, I think about the amount of college educated people I know who can read that have voted for this chaos.
This administration would rather starve 100 people because 51 of those people didn't vote for him.
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This administration would rather starve 100 people because 51 of those people didn't vote for him.
If you can, donate to the food pantries cause it's about to get really bad in a few days.
October 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If you can, donate to the food pantries cause it's about to get really bad in a few days.
The AI cheating/apology post going around is a symptom of the real problem. Universities are putting AI in front of the students & encouraging them to use it. There is a massive conflict of interest now between the university & its learning outcomes. Universities are responsible for all of this.
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The AI cheating/apology post going around is a symptom of the real problem. Universities are putting AI in front of the students & encouraging them to use it. There is a massive conflict of interest now between the university & its learning outcomes. Universities are responsible for all of this.
This will ruin the university system in the state. You can't have a top public university without diversse faculty. The more the better. Hate it all you want but it's a FACT.
I can't get into the psyche of people who would cut off the world's best researchers from teaching their students because they happened to be born farther away from you than you are comfortable with. www.chronicle.com/article/flor...
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This will ruin the university system in the state. You can't have a top public university without diversse faculty. The more the better. Hate it all you want but it's a FACT.
The bilingual students just dominate language classrooms. That's all.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The bilingual students just dominate language classrooms. That's all.
No one can get paid during the shutdown unless Congress acts but the white house can illegally blow people up in the ocean without Congress. Got it.
October 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
No one can get paid during the shutdown unless Congress acts but the white house can illegally blow people up in the ocean without Congress. Got it.
I hate that I have to spend so much time dealing w AI. I have to spend the 1st week of class discussing why AI in a 1st year writing class is a bad idea & how this tool is ruining the environment & sucking up all our water & energy. The college has 17 workshops on AI this yr. I can't escape it.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that I have to spend so much time dealing w AI. I have to spend the 1st week of class discussing why AI in a 1st year writing class is a bad idea & how this tool is ruining the environment & sucking up all our water & energy. The college has 17 workshops on AI this yr. I can't escape it.
There is absolutely zero chance AI in colleges will improve and motivate reading. That's wildly ridiculous. Everyone who makes this claim has no idea what they're talking abt. AI is rapidly decreasing literacy. At least people used to have to read through the search results & think for a few mins.
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
There is absolutely zero chance AI in colleges will improve and motivate reading. That's wildly ridiculous. Everyone who makes this claim has no idea what they're talking abt. AI is rapidly decreasing literacy. At least people used to have to read through the search results & think for a few mins.
They could have invested in writing programs and its faculty and writing across the curriculum programs, but instead they'll outsource their writing knowledge to AI. The deepest sigh ever.
“CSU-GPT launched as part of the CSU Ignites AI event earlier this month. It is a general-purpose platform unique to the university that is designed to help with productivity, writing and brainstorming for all campus members.”
CSU takes next steps into AI with launch of CSU-GPT
At a recent campus event, Colorado State University leaders announced the soft launch of a new, general purpose artificial intelligence platform available to all students, faculty and staff.
source.colostate.edu
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
They could have invested in writing programs and its faculty and writing across the curriculum programs, but instead they'll outsource their writing knowledge to AI. The deepest sigh ever.
Reposted by Dan Martin
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
There's something else happening here too with the dismantling of higher ed and limiting access to grad school on purpose. This will facilitate & encourage cheating. Limiting access and funding to higher increases competition, which increases cheating.
My whole FB feed is now things like this. Obviously a cheating tool but also worth noting so many of these have this messaging--if you don't cheat, you'll be "left behind" (and also that "work smarter, not harder" is shorthand for "don't work at all")
October 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
There's something else happening here too with the dismantling of higher ed and limiting access to grad school on purpose. This will facilitate & encourage cheating. Limiting access and funding to higher increases competition, which increases cheating.
This is what the trump administration is demanding from universities: www.latimes.com/california/s...
October 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is what the trump administration is demanding from universities: www.latimes.com/california/s...