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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…

Small succulent on white-washed table.
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Digital Detox #2: Ethics and Data Privacy

Okay, it’s time to roll up our sleeves for the big guns: ethics and data. It’s probably not a surprising piece of information for me to share with you that much of what you engage with online — from Google to Facebook and back again — is mining your data, using analytics to tailor advertising…