This is hitting so hard right now.

I wish we had educational institutions that were robust enough to maintain a pedagogical mission. But the imbrications with carceral logics and deep investments in ed tech have made the path ahead very narrow.

I have to resist the tech determinist impulse to blame all of this on social media and LLMs, although that's incredibly tempting. The social contract around public education was already incredibly broken by the time the tech came around. >>

Can’t wait to see it. Love your blessings, especially.

I have many papers here if you're interested in my views: olivia.science/ai

What is the endgame here?

It would probably depressed me even more. I can’t wait for this Ouroboros to eat itself alive.

In an analog to tech executives sending their kids to Waldorf schools while pushing screens in K-12, it does feel like authentic learning experiences, developing critical thinking and writing skills in college will be a luxury only available to elites. 6/6

The thing my colleagues and I love most about teaching at #communitycollege is meeting students where they are and supporting their growth. WAC pedagogy emphasizes process, writing-to-learn and engagement over polished writing. GenAI and “hacking” college robs them of that growth. 5/x

And while we do care about academic integrity, my colleagues and I care less about cheating and more about what they are losing. Some of my students worry about AI making them “dumber” or lazy and the recent findings about cognitive offloading bear that out. 4/x

Here I should mention that I also co-facilitated an AI across the curriculum prof dev with colleagues in CS. I know students need AI literacy but what I’m seeing is that students are losing literacy and critical thinking skills while and not actually acquiring AI literacy. 3/x

A colleague who teaches history informed his students that they would be doing writing assignments in class and they freaked out, thinking him the worst type of villain. This is a writing intensive class, but they’d expected that they could have AI generate that writing. 2/x

My husband and son hate my use of “sporting event” in such instances. What? It applies regardless of category of sport.

Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊