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Can we bring AI into the classroom and then ask it to step outside?

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 2d

New today in The Important Work: @markcmarino.bsky.social on teaching writing with an "analog sandwich." First, AI, then, no AI, then...maybe AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/the-analog...

The Analog Sandwich

For these law school application essays, AI is required

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 3d

AI professors, in many ways, will be the best versions of the best professors students can have. AI professors will be realistic avatars that go far beyond the simple tutor model based on large language models, and will likely be here before anyone sees it coming. AI professors will: be available 24 hours, 7 days a week; have an exceedingly large bank of knowledge and experience that they can draw from to illustrate concepts; be complex responders to students’ learning styles and neurodivergence thereby providing truly personalized education with evidenced-based effective pedagogy; have the ability to assess and bring students along on any topic about which students desire to learn, thereby increasing access; teach content areas as well as durable skills such as critical thinking; and have updates in real time that fit the expectations and needs of the current workforce.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 3d

On how AI professors will replace human professors. Discuss. www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...

Human professors, on the other hand, will be able to serve students in a more personalized and interpersonal manner than is currently available. Instead of one to three-hour lectures a week for a class with upwards of hundreds of students (hardly personal), they will meet with smaller groups of students (say 20) multiple times a week, where they will get to know and develop meaningful relationships with many students (once university structures permit this). The responsibilities will include building relationships with students, facilitating the building of community among students, helping students network with other students and people in industries and careers in which students are interested. Another key function will be to teach and assist students with using AI to answer research and work-related questions in a multidisciplinary fashion.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 6d

The creators of this call it a "tool for creativity." Trained on "prexisting content," it customizes stories for kids who choose three elements from a set of tiles. Perhaps there's more to it, but it sounds a bit like calling Netflix a tool for creativity because you can choose genres/types/etc.

Jane Rosenzweig is the director of the Harvard College Writing Center. She holds a BA from Yale University, an MLitt from Oxford, and an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Ed, and elsewhere.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 6d

The creators of this call it a "tool for creativity." Trained on "prexisting content," it customizes stories for kids who choose three elements from a set of tiles. Perhaps there's more to it, but it sounds a bit like calling Netflix a tool for creativity because you can choose genres/types/etc.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 7d

I know it's hard to know what to do right now in admissions, but also I just generated this with ChatGPT in less than a minute and it seemed fine. Emphasis on prompt engineering over knowing how to do the thing without AI and/or with seems like maybe it won't turn out to be a measure of much.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d

“The University of Miami School of Law’s new essay requires applicants to submit a detailed prompt for a generative AI large language model like ChatGPT to generate a ‘comprehensive analysis’ that will help them make an informed decision about which law school to attend.”

Using artificial intelligence for admissions essays is often discouraged or prohibited. For aspiring attorneys hoping to land a seat at two U.S. law schools next fall, it's an opportunity to stand out from the crowd.

www.reuters.com

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

Some of these sound like so much more work than just writing the brief.

“After twenty years of using Westlaw, last summer I started using Lexis and its protege AI product as a natural language search engine for general legal propositions or to help formulate arguments in areas of the law where the courts have not spoken directly on an issue. I have never had a problem or issue using this tool and prior to recent events I would have highly recommended it. I failed to heed the warning provided by Lexis and did not double check the citations provided. Instead, I inserted the quotes, caselaw and uploaded the document to ProWritingAid. I used that tool to edit the brief and at one point used it to replace all the square brackets ( [ ) with parentheses.

In preparing and finalizing the brief, I used the following software tools: Pages with Grammarly and ProWritingAid ... through inadvertence or oversight, I was unaware quotes had been added or that I had included a case that did not actually exist … I immediately started trying to figure out what had happened. I spent all day with IT trying to figure out what went wrong.”

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

Some of these sound like so much more work than just writing the brief.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

A lot of things are being said every day about AI and education by everyone from teachers to pundits to people who are marketing AI. Over at The Important Work, we've got teachers--and occasionally students--writing about their own experiences in actual classrooms. Our latest: what AI misses when/1

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

If you teach/write/think about AI, check us out--and consider writing for us. And please share far and wide so we can reach new readers and new writers. /5theimportantwork.substack.com

The Important Work | Jane Rosenzweig | Substack

Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. Click to read The Important Work, by Jane Rosenzweig, a Substack publication.

I am a proud Luddite in the classroom

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

Before that, high school teacher Clayton Kistner wrote about why he's resisting AI in the classroom. /3 theimportantwork.substack.com/p/i-am-a-pro...

There is no middle ground

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

you ask for editing help. Scientific writing teacher Adrian Rowland writes, "LLMs are highly effective at improving cosmetic aspects of prose, but even with specific prompting cannot be relied upon to fix problems of meaning:" theimportantwork.substack.com/p/llms-and-t... /2

If you put garbage into an LLM, you may get (fancy looking) garbage out

Meet the San Francisco woman who charges $30,000 to name your baby

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

Pay a human 30K to name your baby then send them to elementary school with AI teachers.

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 8d

Raise Taxes

Her bespoke naming services include a "baby name branding" campaign, a genealogical investigation designed to ferret out old family names and even a think tank to discuss the top naming options.

www.yahoo.com

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

And before that, just as the school year was beginning, a high school students shared his thoughts about AI (our most-read post to date) /4 theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high...

At my high school no one is talking about AI

But everyone is using it

The Important Work | Jane Rosenzweig | Substack

Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

If you teach/write/think about AI, check us out--and consider writing for us. And please share far and wide so we can reach new readers and new writers. /5theimportantwork.substack.com

Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. Click to read The Important Work, by Jane Rosenzweig, a Substack publication.

At my high school no one is talking about AI

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

And before that, just as the school year was beginning, a high school students shared his thoughts about AI (our most-read post to date) /4 theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high...

But everyone is using it

I am a proud Luddite in the classroom

Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

Before that, high school teacher Clayton Kistner wrote about why he's resisting AI in the classroom. /3 theimportantwork.substack.com/p/i-am-a-pro...

There is no middle ground

Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

you ask for editing help. Scientific writing teacher Adrian Rowland writes, "LLMs are highly effective at improving cosmetic aspects of prose, but even with specific prompting cannot be relied upon to fix problems of meaning:" theimportantwork.substack.com/p/llms-and-t... /2

If you put garbage into an LLM, you may get (fancy looking) garbage out

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 8d

A lot of things are being said every day about AI and education by everyone from teachers to pundits to people who are marketing AI. Over at The Important Work, we've got teachers--and occasionally students--writing about their own experiences in actual classrooms. Our latest: what AI misses when/1

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 9d

After a brief hiatus, The Important Work is back this week with Adrian Rowland on the problems of using AI for editing: "There is no reason to expect such a tool to infallibly intuit the unexpressed intent of an author."
theimportantwork.substack.com/p/llms-and-t...

If you put garbage into an LLM, you may get (fancy looking) garbage out

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 9d

After a brief hiatus, The Important Work is back this week with Adrian Rowland on the problems of using AI for editing: "There is no reason to expect such a tool to infallibly intuit the unexpressed intent of an author."
theimportantwork.substack.com/p/llms-and-t...

If you put garbage into an LLM, you may get (fancy looking) garbage out