Dan Martin

Outsourcing feedback on student writing to AI is absurd. You have to read student writing to understand how they think & write & to help them learn. A language pattern machine doesn't know how to identify learning. I know everything abt student learning from reading & assessing student work.

American exceptionalism has to be the biggest disinformation grift ever.

At what point is the state legally responsible for providing kids with qualified educators?

State Moves to Pass Law Allowing Veterans to Teach Without Bachelor's Degree Lawmakers in one southern state have successfully pushed a bill that could help boost a volatile teaching profession.

They can lean on all the pedagogical training they received from educational experts.

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It's just a video game to them

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It's wild that this administration is liberating Iran while it tries to keep people from voting and posting their opinion on social media in the US. Can't believe they used a fake WMD argument to start a war in the Middle East again.

AI makes it really difficult to teach students how to value the hard ass work it takes to be a real expert. It's not a vibe, bro.

People aren't listening to this argument. It's significant. AI requires vetting, so it's a waste of time. It doubles the time needed to assess writing. Everyone has to check all the outputs for inaccuracies and made up sources. It's adding so much UNPAID labor to higher ed.

Writing is literally thinking. You can outsource that thinking to a machine if you want, but there's zero chance that outsourcing your thinking and writing will make you a better thinker or writer. ZERO.

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OMG. Exactly. Here are a bunch of AI tools we want you to use, but we're also going to surveil you for cheating with AI.

It's also absurd that people use Turnitin to catch cheating but then allow students to use AI to write. Huh? Using AI is like using Turnitin's database of student papers to write an assignment. It's just taking someone else's intellectual property.

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? Coaching from artificial intelligence chatbots, personalized and accessible at any time, is now shaping how some students write.

No. Teachers aren't asking if AI can improve how students write. This is getting absurd. A language pattern machine that plagiarizes does not think or help people write. Or learn how to write. You have to actually write to get better at writing.

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It's pretty wild that students are expected to leave a composition course, an intro to academic writing, as experts in academic writing, but literally no student leaves an intro class as an expert. No one leaves intro to biology as a biologist. It's a bit more complicated than that.

All truckers and bus drivers will be required to take commercial driver’s license tests in English All truckers and bus drivers will have to take their commercial driver’s license tests in English as the Trump administration expands its aggressive campaign to improve safety in the industry and g…

It's a placement exam for truck drivers that is just nationalistic racism.
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I once waited 8 months for an IRB approval to give an 8 question survey that had zero chance of harm.

“The growing representation of private equity and hedge fund managers on university boards of trustees is analyzed to show how this increasingly wealthy sub-group of financiers gained elite social ties despite the decline of bank-based interlocks between corporate boards.”

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characte…

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I keep seeing job ads for a Professor of Practice. Can't imagine what that means for salary, tenure, and creative expression. Handing higher ed over to a bunch of car dealership managers hasn't turned out well.

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These WA colleges are drawing more students Community college enrollment in Washington has now exceeded where it was in 2020, outpacing public four-year universities.

Community college enrollment is up in WA even though they claimed all the CC's would close because of enrollment cliffs and COVID.

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Turnitin is out: WSU terminates contract with Turnitin WSU has terminated its contract with Turnitin for its AI-detection software, per a memo from the Office of the Provost released Feb. 11. Although Turnitin’s plagiarism-detection software will remain a...

Thank God. This is the biggest ed tech grift. Turnitin steals student writing so it can catch students stealing writing.

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The US has a $989 billion defense budget this year. ICE has a $28 billion budget this year. If anyone wants to know why there is no money for healthcare, education, and social services. It's a nightmare.

Every time I see one of these ed tech grifters on campus, I want to be like, "who let you on campus?"

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Yeah, don't let this machine outsource your brain. I read essays all day for a living and this machine never stops making shiz up and wasting my time vetting the answers. Wasting my time. Wasting everyone's time.