Zach Czaia
@zachczaia.bsky.social
Poet. High School English teacher. Substack, "Teacher / Poet" here: https://zachczaia.substack.com/
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IDK seems like a bad idea to offer cover to a social arsonist…also Common Sense Education and OpenAI partnered to produce an industry-friendly AI literacy curriculum so 🤷🏼
Kids safety advocate Common Sense Media and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI joined together today to advance a ballot measure that would amend the California Constitution in order to protect kids from companion chatbots online. bit.ly/456tzaC
📸 Michael Dwyer, AP
📸 Michael Dwyer, AP
January 10, 2026 at 12:37 AM
IDK seems like a bad idea to offer cover to a social arsonist…also Common Sense Education and OpenAI partnered to produce an industry-friendly AI literacy curriculum so 🤷🏼
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Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic: "'We’re at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out what’s working and what’s not working.'"
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Tech Giants Are Racing to Embed A.I. in Schools Around the Globe
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic: "'We’re at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out what’s working and what’s not working.'"
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Thanks @alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @antoniospadaro.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social @sohrabahmari.bsky.social @daviddark.bsky.social for inspiration. And the Pope, too.
December 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Thanks @alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @antoniospadaro.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social @sohrabahmari.bsky.social @daviddark.bsky.social for inspiration. And the Pope, too.
New piece up on Pope Leo's "Drawing Maps of Hope": zachczaia.substack.com/p/discerning...
“Discerning the Spirits” in Making Decisions about AI
On Powers, Principalities, and Pope Leo’s New Document on Catholic Education
zachczaia.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
New piece up on Pope Leo's "Drawing Maps of Hope": zachczaia.substack.com/p/discerning...
"We should also imagine new tripartite forms, such as AI ethics boards that place organized labor and civil society (including the Church) across the table from technologists." @sohrabahmari.bsky.social Yes. New essay up in @commonweal.bsky.social . www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
Escaping the ‘Torment Nexus’
The fate of the twenty-first century turns on whether we appreciate the logic of Christian democracy and of the social teaching that inspired it.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
December 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"We should also imagine new tripartite forms, such as AI ethics boards that place organized labor and civil society (including the Church) across the table from technologists." @sohrabahmari.bsky.social Yes. New essay up in @commonweal.bsky.social . www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
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Everything is so stupid
December 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Everything is so stupid
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"Big Tech and data center developers appear to be siting data centers in vulnerable communities...These locations show a troubling trend - they primarily impact working class and Black and Latine communities."
The Unequal Burden of Data Centers - Kapor Foundation
An examination of the Environmental and Public Health Impacts on Communities in California
kaporfoundation.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Big Tech and data center developers appear to be siting data centers in vulnerable communities...These locations show a troubling trend - they primarily impact working class and Black and Latine communities."
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Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
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I’m good in the hood.
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’m good in the hood.
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Last week, I gave a talk pushing back against claims that AI will democratize education, and I included this slide meant to trouble narratives - and self-serving programs like OpenAI's new "free" ChatGPT for teachers - that focus narrowly on access to technology as some kind of transformative force.
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Last week, I gave a talk pushing back against claims that AI will democratize education, and I included this slide meant to trouble narratives - and self-serving programs like OpenAI's new "free" ChatGPT for teachers - that focus narrowly on access to technology as some kind of transformative force.
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Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm actually doing Macbeth next semester, too! (Probably February/Marchish) Been digging in to The Folger Guide on it, and resource seems pretty good. www.folger.edu/teach/folger... But would love to hear how you're approaching.
Folger Guides to Teaching Shakespeare | Folger Shakespeare Library
The new Folger Guides to Teaching Shakespeare series offers innovative tools and detailed lesson plans for teaching some of Shakespeare's most frequently taught plays, starting with Hamlet, Macbeth, a...
www.folger.edu
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I'm actually doing Macbeth next semester, too! (Probably February/Marchish) Been digging in to The Folger Guide on it, and resource seems pretty good. www.folger.edu/teach/folger... But would love to hear how you're approaching.
Shout out to @marcusluther.bsky.social and @mrneibauer.bsky.social for sparking this piece. As well as Ross Gay's beautiful book, INCITING JOY. Here's link to Broken Copier ep: substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Heaviness of Teaching
a conversation with Adrian Neibauer
substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Shout out to @marcusluther.bsky.social and @mrneibauer.bsky.social for sparking this piece. As well as Ross Gay's beautiful book, INCITING JOY. Here's link to Broken Copier ep: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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What do playing with toddlers and almost becoming a professional clown have to do with teaching? They remind me of why I fell in love with teaching. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky
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open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...
October 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
What do playing with toddlers and almost becoming a professional clown have to do with teaching? They remind me of why I fell in love with teaching. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky
open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...
open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...
"To tell students not to use AI for the work that was AI-generated for us is, in my opinion, beyond ridiculous. She wants to know what we know. It’s only fair that the same should apply to teachers." Thanks, Scout Snider, for telling it like it is. And @jsanofranchini.bsky.social for sharing.
New Post: A High Schooler’s Perspective on Generative AI by Scout Snider refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/a...
"To tell students not to use AI for the work that was AI-generated for us is, in my opinion, beyond ridiculous."
"To tell students not to use AI for the work that was AI-generated for us is, in my opinion, beyond ridiculous."
A High Schooler’s Perspective on Generative AI
Scout Snider, Morgantown High School Photo by Antoni Shkraba Studio on Pexels.com Being a student in today’s age means having to be surrounded by the constant usage of generative AI. I’…
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"To tell students not to use AI for the work that was AI-generated for us is, in my opinion, beyond ridiculous. She wants to know what we know. It’s only fair that the same should apply to teachers." Thanks, Scout Snider, for telling it like it is. And @jsanofranchini.bsky.social for sharing.
Thanks for inspiration on this piece to @susangbarber.bsky.social @arielsacks.bsky.social Ellen F. Davis, and Robert Frost. And can't forget Eric and Tami Taylor.
October 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Thanks for inspiration on this piece to @susangbarber.bsky.social @arielsacks.bsky.social Ellen F. Davis, and Robert Frost. And can't forget Eric and Tami Taylor.
"Never a Dull Moment, Babe": Notes on Surprise--in Teaching, Writing, and Publishing
zachczaia.substack.com/p/never-a-du...
zachczaia.substack.com/p/never-a-du...
"Never a Dull Moment, Babe"
Notes on Surprise--in Teaching, Writing, and Publishing
zachczaia.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"Never a Dull Moment, Babe": Notes on Surprise--in Teaching, Writing, and Publishing
zachczaia.substack.com/p/never-a-du...
zachczaia.substack.com/p/never-a-du...
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AI is not a mere tool for helping teachers. When you remove the human element of teaching and learning, you are not being more efficient nor effective. The ability to learn is what makes us human, and humans teaching humans is a fundamentally human act that is necessary for meaningful engagement.
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI is not a mere tool for helping teachers. When you remove the human element of teaching and learning, you are not being more efficient nor effective. The ability to learn is what makes us human, and humans teaching humans is a fundamentally human act that is necessary for meaningful engagement.
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Teachers! If your students are using AI to write their papers, maybe it's because you personally are not using AI enough. Here's my new @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-n...
I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers
I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Teachers! If your students are using AI to write their papers, maybe it's because you personally are not using AI enough. Here's my new @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-n...
This is some great satirical writing, a la Swift's Modest Proposal! I think it would be fun to take class with @taliaargondezzi.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is some great satirical writing, a la Swift's Modest Proposal! I think it would be fun to take class with @taliaargondezzi.bsky.social
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"Scrupulous and well researched, this is a much-needed portrait of an often-overlooked area of American Catholicism." ~Publishers Weekly #Racism #Identity #Religion
Read the review: https://bit.ly/4mGTM6z. BLACK AND CATHOLIC by @tiaphd.bsky.social is coming soon!
Read the review: https://bit.ly/4mGTM6z. BLACK AND CATHOLIC by @tiaphd.bsky.social is coming soon!
June 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Scrupulous and well researched, this is a much-needed portrait of an often-overlooked area of American Catholicism." ~Publishers Weekly #Racism #Identity #Religion
Read the review: https://bit.ly/4mGTM6z. BLACK AND CATHOLIC by @tiaphd.bsky.social is coming soon!
Read the review: https://bit.ly/4mGTM6z. BLACK AND CATHOLIC by @tiaphd.bsky.social is coming soon!
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