Julia S
@juliareflects.bsky.social
English for Academic Purposes and tertiary pedagogy.
Je ne trouve pas, je cherche.
Je ne trouve pas, je cherche.
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LLMs as a way to move past friction in writing is one of our biggest challenges, IMO. So tempting to just get past the hurdle through the automation, but it's the friction where learning happens. The assignment and the assessment has to value that friction, not just the outcome.
January 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM
LLMs as a way to move past friction in writing is one of our biggest challenges, IMO. So tempting to just get past the hurdle through the automation, but it's the friction where learning happens. The assignment and the assessment has to value that friction, not just the outcome.
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I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms.
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
![Dear [TEACHER],
I want to make sure we're on the same page for the rest of the year, because I was surprised and disappointed to hear that you uploaded student projects to ChatGPT.
We have always found [SCHOOL] to be a place that encourages students to express themselves creatively, to be responsible and aware of how their actions affect others, and to be intellectually honest – doing their own work, rather than copying from others.
I know ChatGPT has been heavily marketed as an educational tool, but everything about it is the opposite of those values. AI tools are built by training models on stolen work. They have huge and terrible environmental costs, because their data centers generate enormous amounts of pollution and are cooled with drinking water. They're also incredibly dangerous: tools like ChatGPT have taught children how to start fires and even encouraged them to commit suicide.
And in a classroom setting, it teaches students that a machine can express their ideas better than they can. I told [ CHILD ] I was interested in seeing what they had to draw, and my heart sank when they told me "but I can't draw that pretty." Children deserve to draw what they imagine.
These environmental, ethical, and pedagogical concerns are why I don't want [ CHILD ] to use AI tools (or for you to use them on their behalf). For the same reasons, I respectfully ask that you stop using them in your classroom.
If you do plan to use AI this year, please send home a permission slip requesting consent. There are important privacy concerns when you upload student work into a for-profit service like ChatGPT.
Thank you,
[ PARENT ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c2xl6zaxo623jzbjb43urymd/bafkreiesldew7oebm4hg2gymd4cftvwmrpbdw6m7eil2buiphw7db4ror4@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms.
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
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Acoustic panels can be a game changer:
✔️ Especially for inclusive lunchtimes
✔️ Especially for children with speech & language needs.
✔️ Especially for inclusive lunchtimes
✔️ Especially for children with speech & language needs.
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Acoustic panels can be a game changer:
✔️ Especially for inclusive lunchtimes
✔️ Especially for children with speech & language needs.
✔️ Especially for inclusive lunchtimes
✔️ Especially for children with speech & language needs.
Just to say that I have found this PhD thesis on the topic, which is very helpful: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just to say that I have found this PhD thesis on the topic, which is very helpful: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...
Amazing! Thank you!
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Amazing! Thank you!
Could you do one that explains how untreated syphilis spreads in the body? I've been reading Mickle's Notes on Syphilis in the Insane from 1876, and I'd love it if someone could go over his diagnoses with modern-day knowledge and explain them in laymen's terms. A bit much to ask, I know.
December 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Could you do one that explains how untreated syphilis spreads in the body? I've been reading Mickle's Notes on Syphilis in the Insane from 1876, and I'd love it if someone could go over his diagnoses with modern-day knowledge and explain them in laymen's terms. A bit much to ask, I know.
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The stuff I don't know is bottomless. But what I do know, I know, and I know it because I've read it for myself. I've thought about it. I've attempted to articulate my ideas to others, have received feedback from other human intelligences on these ideas and then engaged in more academic conversation
October 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The stuff I don't know is bottomless. But what I do know, I know, and I know it because I've read it for myself. I've thought about it. I've attempted to articulate my ideas to others, have received feedback from other human intelligences on these ideas and then engaged in more academic conversation
Seeing this this morning reminded me of your talk. bsky.app/profile/jame...
one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Seeing this this morning reminded me of your talk. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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More prosaically, as someone pointed out to me recently: LLMs are *always* hallucinating. its just that sometimes their hallucinations appear to map our experienced reality. But the map is never *of* our reality, just *like* it. So the words don’t describe it. 4/4
September 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
More prosaically, as someone pointed out to me recently: LLMs are *always* hallucinating. its just that sometimes their hallucinations appear to map our experienced reality. But the map is never *of* our reality, just *like* it. So the words don’t describe it. 4/4