@xolotl.org millsoer.bsky.social replace the implicitly human "hallucinate" with "mirage." IRL when we interact often enough with visual illusions like mirages, we develop greater ability to adjust for their perceptual weirdness. Instructional tip? Ask our students to create these metaphors.

If AI-adaptive texts routinely remove the necessary friction of employing reading strategies to get unstuck, they can too easily become shortcuts to proficiency that perpetuate novice behaviors, diminishing your instructional repertoire and cheating students from developing independent readers.

Friction in instruction prompts deeper thinking = desirable difficulty. Our Janus dilemma is that resistance works both ways. "Once people adapt to greater efficiency in any practice or process, reductions in efficiency, whatever the rationale, feel intolerable." #NicholasCarr

It's not about black and white.

I've found that students rarely get that citations aren't the endgame. Judgments about sources and choices of tools are 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 of their reasoning. Without the 𝐰𝐡𝐲, they've not created the analysis or argument.

𝘈 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦'𝘴 𝘙𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/sources-role...

It would be useful to tease out the difference between "It depends" when a respondant recognizes that context, the teaching goal, the student's level of prior knowledge might inform the judgement call. "Not sure" implies the instructor's ambivalence or lack of clarity.