it can produce students who don’t know what they want or what they believe. (They do know what they SHOULD want and believe, or what they’re told), but questioning remains limited. We need to re-instill the spirit of the gumshoe in our students …. Dig into the microfiche again kids …. !!

Everyone said that their students seem to hold less agency: they’re unable to ask themselves: “what do I think of this?” If given a book and an LLM, they’ll turn to the LLM to ask what the book means instead of seeing for themselves. good strategies were discussed to meet them where they’re at tho!

i'm glad that you've figured that out, but I'm (a) bad at computers and it's not exactly super easy (b) don't have enough gpu or ram or capacity for that. and I kinda think I'm not alone in that

yeah! and this framing also helps alleviate the kinda hand-wavey "well, learning to phrase prompts is like learning to phrase research questions, so it's good!" I'm level-headed about it but I think the industry has resorted to so much mythical boosting that critics have to retaliate in turn.

I know many others have mentioned this, but I keep reminding my students and colleagues that to speak to to the LLM is to give it your voice--your input becomes its training data.

I feel like this resonates at a mythic scale--it's like the little mermaid. don't give your voice to the witch, girl!

i would go to church if the church had The Grid open.spotify.com/track/64VYy2...

Like I use my loom to teach and research, not to make money. I use one crock pot for dyeing, and the other for food. Straightforward stuff maybe, but “use” and our choice in it is a tanglier category than it seems

Aha!! This makes so much sense, thank you. There was a big shift recently from Orbis to this new interface and there was a big pushback and now I finally understand why. Thank you so much 🙏

Then I cannot be said to have too many tote bags because I can simply turn 5 bags into 1. and then I shall have less.

I’m also told that if they don’t confess there’s nothing you can do, which seems like a real way to just resign everyone to full adoption. very huge bummer

Recently I’ve been grading less on “proper” things (it’s helpful that I teach WGSS/art history which has less strict conventions!) and more on what I’m calling “panache and verve.” We practice it in class so they can’t use AI, but it does involve taking creative stances that AI can’t.