LOL

Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.

We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.

Succinct.

This past weekend I rambled over at my Patreon about coming up on 20 years of writing and other nonsense. Check it out for free;

This was one of the more difficult years I've had getting students into Othello, but the train seems to be moving right along to the station in Act III now.

Agreed.

I have several assignments in my writing classes I give to fight against what I call "essay-ey" writing and it's SO hard for students to find and embrace their voices with these assignments and to do it without using "I think/I believe" language.

The student never quoted or references the original article beyond calling it "thought provoking" & then employs using outside evidence without synthesizing it with the article she was assigned once. Grade was deserved. University of Oklahoma should be ashamed of itself for removing the professor.

Two students who were home for Thanksgiving break dropped in to tell me they were so glad they had me because they were prepared for what was expected of them and shared a lot of their peers were not.

It's going to get worse before it gets better.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

It's nice to read something like that and find some of the same approaches you've been doing in your own classrooms.

Love that in this editorial/profile, there's barely a mention of the real stakeholders in this city's education system which are students & teachers, neither of whom seem to be of serious importance in any of these discussions to either Councilmember Hudson or the CPS administration.

3rd year going and presenting at #NCTE. Always so energizing to spend time and talk to so many talented fellow educators.

New in The Important Work: @thevogelman.bsky.social shares his AI Transparency Survey and writes about what he learned when he asked his 10th and 12th grade students to reflect on their AI usage. Here's a bit of what his students shared. Read it here: theimportantwork.substack.com/p/the-transp...

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.