Mark Hennagain
@mhennagain.bsky.social
Teacher, thinker, writer, father, husband, ironicist, poet, Forever Dm, occasional pedant.
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This too cannot be emphasized enough: the tools are no longer "out there," some other website where you need an account and maybe a subscription. They're in the browsers, in the productivity software, and in the courseware. To cut them out of the loop will now require enormous energies. +
August 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This too cannot be emphasized enough: the tools are no longer "out there," some other website where you need an account and maybe a subscription. They're in the browsers, in the productivity software, and in the courseware. To cut them out of the loop will now require enormous energies. +
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Not all students will use these tools and not all will have access to them. But increasingly institutions are looking to provide that access and are encouraging use of the tools in at least qualified ways. (And this is to say nothing of the workplace environment or general social expectations.) +
August 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Not all students will use these tools and not all will have access to them. But increasingly institutions are looking to provide that access and are encouraging use of the tools in at least qualified ways. (And this is to say nothing of the workplace environment or general social expectations.) +
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This is neither doomerism nor capitulating to “inevitability.” It’s a factual baseline for the current conditions of student writing. I say this as someone who has spent a career studying writing technologies and their impacts. (Deep background thread: bsky.app/profile/mkir...). +
Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
August 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is neither doomerism nor capitulating to “inevitability.” It’s a factual baseline for the current conditions of student writing. I say this as someone who has spent a career studying writing technologies and their impacts. (Deep background thread: bsky.app/profile/mkir...). +
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To the extent asynchronous written work has been the traditional object of assessment in a variety of classes and disciplines, there are now tools in place that can furnish transactionally serviceable surrogates for many or most cases. +
August 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
To the extent asynchronous written work has been the traditional object of assessment in a variety of classes and disciplines, there are now tools in place that can furnish transactionally serviceable surrogates for many or most cases. +