Carole Bell

@carolebell.bsky.social

Writer, author, columnist, political commentator, professional speaker. Curious about everything. I love learning and beauty.

I'm sorry to hear this. I loved reading Kane and Abel. So well-written and constructed. Sold 50 million copies. “Where I come from in the West Country, we say, ‘Tell ’em a yarn, m’dear, and make ’em keep turning the pages, and you won’t be far wrong’” RIP. #JeffreyArcher #WritingCommunity

Jeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers, Dies at 86 (Gift Article)

In a life of achievement and disgrace, he wrote best-selling novels with themes he knew intimately: ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal.

nytimes.com

I'm sorry to hear this. I loved reading Kane and Abel. So well-written and constructed. Sold 50 million copies. “Where I come from in the West Country, we say, ‘Tell ’em a yarn, m’dear, and make ’em keep turning the pages, and you won’t be far wrong’” RIP. #JeffreyArcher #WritingCommunity

Jeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers, Dies at 86 (Gift Article)

In a life of achievement and disgrace, he wrote best-selling novels with themes he knew intimately: ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal.

nytimes.com

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Jacquelyn Ardam@jaxwendy.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?