Paula Patch
@profpatch.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English at Elon University. Compositionist. Former WPA, current First-Year Experience person. Writer. Modern transcendentalist.
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It was an honor to meet with tribal leaders from across North Carolina to learn about the priorities and vision for our eight state-recognized tribes and four urban Indian organizations.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It was an honor to meet with tribal leaders from across North Carolina to learn about the priorities and vision for our eight state-recognized tribes and four urban Indian organizations.
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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Let's remember that how we spend our time⏳ & organise our workload📚 is *our choice*, though it may not feel like it.
Growth also means knowing how & where to set our boundaries and managing our (finite) resources effectively.
Wrote down some thoughts here:
educationalist.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
Growth also means knowing how & where to set our boundaries and managing our (finite) resources effectively.
Wrote down some thoughts here:
educationalist.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
What do you choose?
The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai
educationalist.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Let's remember that how we spend our time⏳ & organise our workload📚 is *our choice*, though it may not feel like it.
Growth also means knowing how & where to set our boundaries and managing our (finite) resources effectively.
Wrote down some thoughts here:
educationalist.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
Growth also means knowing how & where to set our boundaries and managing our (finite) resources effectively.
Wrote down some thoughts here:
educationalist.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
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Queens University and Elon University are merging charlotteledger.substack.com/p/breaking-q...
BREAKING: Queens U. and Elon U. to merge
Merger of 2 N.C. universities
charlotteledger.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Queens University and Elon University are merging charlotteledger.substack.com/p/breaking-q...
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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...
What about AI and Academic Integrity?
How to talk with students who have overused AI in your course
aiandhowweteach.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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...
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So, how do we reduce AI misuse/learning loss in writing assignments?
These slides for a recent presentation show how I layer strategies.
link.annarmills.com/guiding
1. Frame the value of writing for thinking and make assignments motivating and social.
2. Set up guardrails to discourage misuse.
These slides for a recent presentation show how I layer strategies.
link.annarmills.com/guiding
1. Frame the value of writing for thinking and make assignments motivating and social.
2. Set up guardrails to discourage misuse.
See how you write or use AI | Process Feedback Every Student’s Work Has a Story |
Process Feedback enables teachers and students to see the writing process and AI usage. It helps students reflect on their writing and the role of AI.
ProcessFeedback.org
August 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
So, how do we reduce AI misuse/learning loss in writing assignments?
These slides for a recent presentation show how I layer strategies.
link.annarmills.com/guiding
1. Frame the value of writing for thinking and make assignments motivating and social.
2. Set up guardrails to discourage misuse.
These slides for a recent presentation show how I layer strategies.
link.annarmills.com/guiding
1. Frame the value of writing for thinking and make assignments motivating and social.
2. Set up guardrails to discourage misuse.
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If and when students use LLMs ts should be agentic and personal, where they conceive a challenge in what they're trying to do and then deploy the tool to meet that challenge. This is how the adult champions of this technology are using it. We should do the same for students, right?
August 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
If and when students use LLMs ts should be agentic and personal, where they conceive a challenge in what they're trying to do and then deploy the tool to meet that challenge. This is how the adult champions of this technology are using it. We should do the same for students, right?
Mid-summer must-read from @geekypedagogy.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Mid-summer must-read from @geekypedagogy.bsky.social
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PAIRR just released two free AI feedback prompts to support equity, reflection, and student voice. Use them in your classroom today!
open.substack.com/pub/pairrfee...
@annamillsoer.bsky.social @carlwhithaus.bsky.social @lisasperber.bsky.social
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@annamillsoer.bsky.social @carlwhithaus.bsky.social @lisasperber.bsky.social
PAIRR Releases Public Feedback Prompts to Support Reflective and Equitable Writing Instruction
New templates from the PAIRR Project help educators foster equity, reflection, and rhetorical agency through peer and AI feedback
open.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
PAIRR just released two free AI feedback prompts to support equity, reflection, and student voice. Use them in your classroom today!
open.substack.com/pub/pairrfee...
@annamillsoer.bsky.social @carlwhithaus.bsky.social @lisasperber.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/pairrfee...
@annamillsoer.bsky.social @carlwhithaus.bsky.social @lisasperber.bsky.social
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Interested in inviting students to reflect on AI feedback alongside peer feedback? We’re sharing the open, adaptable materials of the Peer & AI Review + Reflection project.
Join us July 9 at 1 pm Pacific time/ UTC-7. Register at marin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 1/3
Join us July 9 at 1 pm Pacific time/ UTC-7. Register at marin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 1/3
June 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Interested in inviting students to reflect on AI feedback alongside peer feedback? We’re sharing the open, adaptable materials of the Peer & AI Review + Reflection project.
Join us July 9 at 1 pm Pacific time/ UTC-7. Register at marin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 1/3
Join us July 9 at 1 pm Pacific time/ UTC-7. Register at marin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 1/3
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What did immigrants ever do for Los Angeles, besides settle it, name it and work to turn it into one of the world's great metropolises?
June 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
What did immigrants ever do for Los Angeles, besides settle it, name it and work to turn it into one of the world's great metropolises?
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Announcing our Slow Academia Special Issue theslowacademic.com/2025/06/07/a... Open access www.peterlang.com/journal/27/7-1
Announcing our Slow Academia Special Issue
Our open access special issue is available! I am excited to share the newly published issue of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education (Volume 7, Issue 1) on slow academia which I co-edited with …
theslowacademic.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Announcing our Slow Academia Special Issue theslowacademic.com/2025/06/07/a... Open access www.peterlang.com/journal/27/7-1
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For the staff and volunteers helping refugees rebuild their lives in the U.S., each arrival marked the end of a years-long journey through one of the world’s most intensive vetting systems.
www.theassemblync.com/immigration/...
www.theassemblync.com/immigration/...
The Welcome That Wasn’t
His journey from Kenyan refugee camps to Greensboro was years in the making. Then the U.S. froze admissions.
www.theassemblync.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
For the staff and volunteers helping refugees rebuild their lives in the U.S., each arrival marked the end of a years-long journey through one of the world’s most intensive vetting systems.
www.theassemblync.com/immigration/...
www.theassemblync.com/immigration/...
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At the end of the school year, a lot gets thrown away at my downtown Durham apartment building. This year, I decided to dive in.
I Salvaged $6,000 of Luxury Items Discarded by Duke Students. Why Did It Make Me Feel So Terrible? indyweek.com/culture/duke...
I Salvaged $6,000 of Luxury Items Discarded by Duke Students. Why Did It Make Me Feel So Terrible? indyweek.com/culture/duke...
I Salvaged $6,000 of Luxury Items Discarded by Duke Students. Why Did It Make Me Feel So Terrible?
At the end of the school year, a lot gets tossed by Duke students at my downtown Durham apartment building. This year I decided to dive in.
indyweek.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
At the end of the school year, a lot gets thrown away at my downtown Durham apartment building. This year, I decided to dive in.
I Salvaged $6,000 of Luxury Items Discarded by Duke Students. Why Did It Make Me Feel So Terrible? indyweek.com/culture/duke...
I Salvaged $6,000 of Luxury Items Discarded by Duke Students. Why Did It Make Me Feel So Terrible? indyweek.com/culture/duke...
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Does everything need to happen in the classroom?
What can be done more effectively before class, asynchronously and how can we best scaffold that?
In my latest newsletter I reflect on how to use different modalities intentionally in our course design.
educationalist.substack.com/p/rethinking...
What can be done more effectively before class, asynchronously and how can we best scaffold that?
In my latest newsletter I reflect on how to use different modalities intentionally in our course design.
educationalist.substack.com/p/rethinking...
Rethinking modalities in teaching and learning
The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai
educationalist.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Does everything need to happen in the classroom?
What can be done more effectively before class, asynchronously and how can we best scaffold that?
In my latest newsletter I reflect on how to use different modalities intentionally in our course design.
educationalist.substack.com/p/rethinking...
What can be done more effectively before class, asynchronously and how can we best scaffold that?
In my latest newsletter I reflect on how to use different modalities intentionally in our course design.
educationalist.substack.com/p/rethinking...
“we're failing to develop a nuanced understanding of how this emerging technology intersects with long-standing educational challenges.” open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...
The Stories (and Students) Forgotten in the AI Panic
I'm preparing to host our fourth faculty institute on generative AI tomorrow at UM with 90+ colleagues attending. I've been thinking about how harmful the "us vs. them" narratives about AI can be, and...
open.substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“we're failing to develop a nuanced understanding of how this emerging technology intersects with long-standing educational challenges.” open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...
It’s worth thinking about the layers of obligation faculty have regarding genAI use and practice: to self, to students, to institution, to discipline, and beyond. It’s inevitable that these will not align.
#cwcon25 morning keynote from MSU alum Jen Sano-Franchini, talking about AI, data centers, and critical interface analysis. Will be talking about refusal.blog which is a great resource for folks who take a critical stance toward genAI.
Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
Visit the post for more.
refusal.blog
May 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It’s worth thinking about the layers of obligation faculty have regarding genAI use and practice: to self, to students, to institution, to discipline, and beyond. It’s inevitable that these will not align.
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#cwcon25 morning keynote from MSU alum Jen Sano-Franchini, talking about AI, data centers, and critical interface analysis. Will be talking about refusal.blog which is a great resource for folks who take a critical stance toward genAI.
Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
Visit the post for more.
refusal.blog
May 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#cwcon25 morning keynote from MSU alum Jen Sano-Franchini, talking about AI, data centers, and critical interface analysis. Will be talking about refusal.blog which is a great resource for folks who take a critical stance toward genAI.
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Educators should disclose to students when and how we use AI and also when and why we choose not to use it. Transparency is key to trust and respect.
The professor said he wanted to give his lectures a "fresh look." futurism.com/student-prof...
May 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Educators should disclose to students when and how we use AI and also when and why we choose not to use it. Transparency is key to trust and respect.
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A new generation of tribal scientists and storytellers is navigating the complexities of recognition and history, rebuilding ties to land and water, and preparing for what’s next.
www.theassemblync.com/environment/...
www.theassemblync.com/environment/...
Rooted in the Land, Ready for the Future
A new generation of tribal scientists and storytellers is rebuilding ties between the land and water, and preparing for what comes next.
www.theassemblync.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A new generation of tribal scientists and storytellers is navigating the complexities of recognition and history, rebuilding ties to land and water, and preparing for what’s next.
www.theassemblync.com/environment/...
www.theassemblync.com/environment/...
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We won’t go down without a fight. Yet another attempt by this administration to silence voices that they disagree with. The CPB partly funds PBS, but the rest of the money needed to run PBS and its member stations comes from private foundations and viewers like us.
We won’t go down without a fight. Yet another attempt by this administration to silence voices that they disagree with. The CPB partly funds PBS, but the rest of the money needed to run PBS and its member stations comes from private foundations and viewers like us.
May 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
consequence.net/2025/05/trum...
We won’t go down without a fight. Yet another attempt by this administration to silence voices that they disagree with. The CPB partly funds PBS, but the rest of the money needed to run PBS and its member stations comes from private foundations and viewers like us.
We won’t go down without a fight. Yet another attempt by this administration to silence voices that they disagree with. The CPB partly funds PBS, but the rest of the money needed to run PBS and its member stations comes from private foundations and viewers like us.
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Friends, many of us are finding it hard to feel hopeful. And that’s ok. When you can’t feel hope, do hope. Hope is getting out of bed. Hope is telling jokes, writing that paper, smiling at a stranger, permission to rest. Hope is a practice. What does hope in action look like for you?
Goodnight 💚
Goodnight 💚
April 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Friends, many of us are finding it hard to feel hopeful. And that’s ok. When you can’t feel hope, do hope. Hope is getting out of bed. Hope is telling jokes, writing that paper, smiling at a stranger, permission to rest. Hope is a practice. What does hope in action look like for you?
Goodnight 💚
Goodnight 💚
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I love North Carolina because we are home to friendly and good people and remarkable natural beauty. We are one of the best states for business in the nation – and home to the best BBQ and basketball in the country!
April 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I love North Carolina because we are home to friendly and good people and remarkable natural beauty. We are one of the best states for business in the nation – and home to the best BBQ and basketball in the country!
For those of you still at #4C25, convention center staff are trying their best to keep the cheer teams from disrupting Saturday sessions. They’ve cordoned off some hallways, but rooms are accessible with your name tag.
April 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For those of you still at #4C25, convention center staff are trying their best to keep the cheer teams from disrupting Saturday sessions. They’ve cordoned off some hallways, but rooms are accessible with your name tag.