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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 1d

“What we’re missing in most classes isn’t rules; it’s education about how AI can enhance our learning rather than replace it.” Let’s listen.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 1d

“Generative AI should not be banned outright, nor should it be embraced without thought. What we really need is guidance, resources, and practice in how to utilize it wisely.” This is the most sensible (from experience) nuanced treatment of AI that I have read. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

ChatGPT Has Been My Tutor for the Last Year. I Still Have Concerns. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

This transition will be messy, and no policy will be perfect. But if we don’t agree on how to talk about AI, when to use it, and when to avoid it, we risk creating fragmented and inequitable experienc...

www.thecrimson.com

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 6d

Though it's a stretch for me to understand the metrics in this study, ever since I started reading, I keep returning to these ideas. Their "setup provides explicit estimates of uncertainty and benchmarks AI model by quantifying the synergy they provide to human interaction." doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 7d

John Nosta unpacks the AI tool metaphor here: “This is the quiet revolution we’re living through. This is technology moving from external utility to internal participation.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #eduskyAI

Maybe AI Was Never a Tool

Using artificial intelligence "responsibly" assumes it is just another tool—it isn't.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 7d

Even if you can't read ahead of time:
Join us on TTT: Let's read and annotate "From Monsters to Mazes" together on Wednesday evening, October 1st at 8E/7C/6M/5P in Kumospace.com/youthvoices
#eduskyAI
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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 7d

Two Ways to join the conversation:
Anytime, anywhere: Read and annotate the paper with us here: From Monsters to Mazes: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI Between Frankenstein and Kafka writingpartners.net/documents/85...
#eduskyAI
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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 7d

I want to invite you to a conversation about AI through the lens of fiction. Gideon Dishon, the author of "From Monsters to Mazes" writingpartners.net/documents/85... in the abstract: "...fictional texts, can shape our shared imagination of possible and probable futures." #eduskyAI
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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 8d

We are reading and annotating together.
We would love to see your marginalia on
From Monsters to Mazes: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI Between Frankenstein and Kafka
writingpartners.net/documents/85...
before we meet on Wednesday evening, October 1, at 8E/7C/6M/5P in Kumospace.com/youthvoices.

From Monsters to Mazes: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI Between Frankenstein and Kafka - Writing Partners

Writing Partners - Created By and For Teachers and Students

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 10d

Why social annotation:“Intelligence—whether human or artificial—is inherently interactive, contextual, and collaborative. Sophisticated thinking rarely occurs in isolation; it emerges instead through dialogue, feedback, refinement, and the integration of diverse perspectives.” osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 12d

“What we really need are nuanced approaches that center human agency and experience about how new technologies complicate and alter our habits and skills.” Three cheers for nuance! youtu.be/Fgxf_EJnYEU?...

TTT 09.24.2025 How many educators does it take to create an AI assistant?

YouTube video by Paul Allison

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 18d

“AI can… be the ultimate training partner, a sparring partner for the mind that forces us to level up. The essential challenge is to keep agency at the center of the interaction and to make sure we are directing the conversation rather than outsourcing it.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Human Agency in the Age of AI

When AI stands at the ready to do our work—and our thinking—for us, human agency is what keeps us drivers, not passengers, of the mind.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 22d

We invite you to meet Dr. Rachel Horst www.rachelhorst.ca with us on Wed. evening, September 17 at 8E/7C/6M/5P. We'll be meeting in Kumospace.com/youthvoices. www.kumospace.com/youthvoices?...
Join us to engage in a collaborative inquiry that seeks to move beyond binary thinking about AI.
#eduskyAI

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 26d

In this conversation Chris Sloan shares insights on how students in his AP English classes interact with AI-generated feedback, emphasizing the importance of students maintaining agency over their writing. youtu.be/JT9wH-Z5ChY #eduskyAI

TTT 09.10.2025 We explore the use of AI in aiding students with writing college admissions essays

YouTube video by Paul Allison

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 27d

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 28d

I don’t think our values are so different. I think we are finding ways to use AI that are consistent with the values you are clear about in your writing. The AI can be used to amplify those values about the power of meaningful communication in real world interactions.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 28d

Great. Please listen to the students. That is how we are learning the power of AI to enhance their learning.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 28d

What do you mean here? Are you saying that the human feedback from peers and students is somehow a simulation because it is in a classroom?

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 28d

There are no rubrics involved with this feedback. Do you want to learn more about how we design them?

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 29d

Have you talked with students who deeply care about their writing about how they experience using AI assistants alongside peer feedback & teacher response to spark their creativity, write for real audiences, and deepen their criticality? I have, and I see their passion for writing like never before.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 29d

Matt, can you please explain?

Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 29d

I wonder if you read the comments. I would love to talk with you more about what students are learning. I’m not sure how to share what many of us are seeing when the conversation ends up with people only seeing what supports their positions on AI. I will describe the joy students experience!

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 29d

I am not sure what “kind of feedback” you see here. Could you please be more precise about which parts of one of these examples you might object to. What do you see as facile surface level? I would appreciate more explanation.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 29d

Every day we see young writers using AI Writing Partners to spark or challenge themselves to their next creative moves. The teachers involved in this project have carefully designed these AI assistants with an amalgam of composition theory and our own experience. Three examples from this afternoon:

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 29d

One possible set of referents here: Training wheels feel like the red lines under my text when I write with Grammarly (and such) on, constantly hectoring me to reconsider. If that's the AI that is being resisted, I'm with you. But what if AI is a balance bike, a partner that guides my playful joy!

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 29d

As I was trying to understand the referents to the training wheels metaphor, it struck me that this is a pretty anachronistic comparison. Parents have moved on from training wheels woom.com/en_US/why-tr.... Balance bikes seem to be the way to learn how to ride. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

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