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Three military men appeat to play a video game, but the man on the screen is a soldier they are fighting. Cover of Amazing Stories, 1936.

Breaking What Was Already Broken: AI and Writing Assignments

This week’s post shares a bunch of intellectual air with John Warner’s thinking about AI writing and undergraduate assessment. There’s often a lot of alignment between my thinking and John’s when it comes to talking about writing assessment, but he published first, so let me point you to his excellent piece, ChatGPT Can’t Kill Anything…

Red and blue neon on a birkc wass reads "Leave dishevelled or leave now."

Digital Detox #3: E-proctoring Sucks, So Why Won’t It Go Away?

If there’s one trend that Covid-19 brought on like a freight train — other than the crushing existential dread — it’s e-proctoring. Reader, I hate it. There are loads of good pieces online about why e-proctoring is troubling, but I want to focus on what I think e-proctoring says about the state of education now,…