I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

Recent coverage of a "Trojan Horse" trick in an assignment prompt a professor used to catch 32 of 35 students in his class bothered me, so I played out the argument about why anti-AI tricks like this harm our educational environments. teaching-the-internet.ghost.io/against-shad... 1/3

Against Shady AI Policing in Education

Early in the first meeting of my school’s AI Book Club in Spring 2024, in the midst of a conversation about Fei Fei Li’s The Worlds I See, a colleague launched into the kind of anti-AI comment that’s ...

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I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Have we *ever* considered the possibility that the baby shoes were never worn because there’s literally no point in putting shoes on a baby; it’s not like she’s going to walk anywhere.

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A Brief History of Nobody Reads Anymore 🧵

Okay this has gotta be my favorite meme I've seen on this situation

Smart stuff from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. Being empowered to make stuff is transformative for students, and this is a dramatically more hopeful vision for education in the present than some arms-crossed reversion to a print-only media ecosystem that predates my first years in school.

We could be building a better world with our students. Why are we disempowering them instead?

And why did our constructionism impulse die when it was most needed?

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People on social media love a didactic ass poem that sucks

Happy bloomsday! Read Sally Rooney's great misreading of Ulysses, with some amazing reminders of how weird Stephen's masculinity is

Gabriel Hankins@gabrielh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just remembering this great response to Ulysses as a book also for and about women www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/12...

getting rid of grades entirely would be much more effective at curbing surreptitious use of genAI than any amount of surveillance, would do vastly less harm to the pedagogical relationship at the heart of education, and wouldn't be another massive economic windfall for the creepiest people you know

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

“At UCLA, students in a recent sociology class said they were told in an email to ‘procure a mirror large enough to fully reflect your entire desk-area work space,’ and turn on their laptop camera so the professor could watch them during an online test.”

What if the best that my students think and say is about stuff nobody thinks is the best that has been thought and said? On reading students' writing about Fruit Love Island and thinking about an English more expansive than just the great books. teaching-the-internet.ghost.io/fruit-love-i...

Fruit Love Island and the Best That Has Been Thought and Said

I taught three sections of my long-standing Digital Literary Studies elective last spring, and in late March, four separate students hit on the same object of study for their blog posts. All at once, ...

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What if the best that my students think and say is about stuff nobody thinks is the best that has been thought and said? On reading students' writing about Fruit Love Island and thinking about an English more expansive than just the great books. teaching-the-internet.ghost.io/fruit-love-i...

Fruit Love Island and the Best That Has Been Thought and Said

I taught three sections of my long-standing Digital Literary Studies elective last spring, and in late March, four separate students hit on the same object of study for their blog posts. All at once, ...

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One thing I don't think anyone in or out of education talks about enough is the effect of electronic gradebooks on grade inflation and how it turned schooling into a series of negotiated transactions btw teachers, administrators, parents, and students divorced from teaching and learning.

And it says *100% AI written* with "high confidence." It is 100% wrong. I say... AI detector tools are about as reliable as AI writing tools.

My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.

*Hands-On BASIC for the IBM PCjr* was an improbable favorite for a 9-year-old, but I loved it. New post about Arthur Luehrmann's hope that students "become masters of computing, not merely its subjects," a vision of literacy that should still matter. teaching-the-internet.ghost.io/hands-on-bas...

Hands-On BASIC: On Loving Computers and Reading

I recently read W. Patrick McCray’s excellent book README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines (2025), and its central thesis that the history of computing is ...

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*Hands-On BASIC for the IBM PCjr* was an improbable favorite for a 9-year-old, but I loved it. New post about Arthur Luehrmann's hope that students "become masters of computing, not merely its subjects," a vision of literacy that should still matter. teaching-the-internet.ghost.io/hands-on-bas...

Hands-On BASIC: On Loving Computers and Reading

I recently read W. Patrick McCray’s excellent book README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines (2025), and its central thesis that the history of computing is ...

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I don't think we talk enough about how AI has become a scapegoat for the bigger, much more salient trends driving the economic travails of the average worker -- and which have been ongoing for a quarter century, at least.

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The world is producing more wealth than ever, but it's not going to workers -- it's going to companies and their shareholders. The drivers are outsourcing, corporate concentration, automation, and laws hostile to collective bargaining. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Libraries are not just knowledge repositories, though it’d be enough if that’s all academic libraries did. We create the conditions for knowledge production across campus, and also create knowledge in our own right. A uni cannot function without a healthy, well funded, appropriately staffed library

THE NEW IS NOTHING BUT A RESTATEMENT OF THE OLD

odd that AI is taking up a role not unlike porn: widely used, AND vociferously derided in public by the same people who use it regularly

The emerging narrative about students and AI seems to be that they hate it AND they are using it frequently for school-related matters. Not totally irreconcilable; interesting if accurate, though.

Foolishly watched the WaPo video where these chuds talk about grade inflation. Grade inflation panic exists primarily to entertain mediocrities who still care about their high school SAT scores in their 40s, and the discourse around it is wholly indifferent to learning.

It’s a complicated picture, and my moral judgments about it are also frankly colored by strong disapproval of existing IP laws, which make academic research on the past century of cultural production extraordinarily difficult. Century-long copyright terms are imo an abomination.

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about. This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.