Lisa Melonçon

Oh, but you're not. :-) Sending you all the good luck wishes and know I'm out here if you need an ear or support!!

Yep, that tracks...😉🤣

ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ Some college students are beginning to limit their use of artificial intelligence, so as not to hinder their own creativity, discipline and critical thinking

Weird. This doesn’t match what I’ve been told—that students are going to use it no matter what.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

A close up image of yellow tulips that have white tips. They are fully in bloom.

#FlowerReport One of my favorite tulip photos of my trip to Amsterdam in the Spring. #Beauty and #SmallJoys

Pete Buttigieg warns Democrats can't go back to status quo after President Trump Steve Inskeep speaks with former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about distrust in government and the status of the Democratic Party.

Steve Inskeep speaks with former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about distrust in government and the status of the Democratic Party.

Info design 101. Hahahaha. Gonna be a great example for class this fall.

So far AI has only increased my workload.

You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

There are 500 stories about AOC’s met dress on my socials today when this administration openly takes bribes in the hundreds of millions. Cmon.

Johns Hopkins Press will license its books to train AI models Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”

Airport sitting. Always, always reminds me of you. Tu me marques, mon ami.

I just now laughed out loud so hard....someone trying to make the claim that "teaching effective AI prompt strategy" is a social justice considerations. 20 pages in and not one single word about the ethical problems of AI. And people wonder why the hell I'm so cranky about AI.

It is super important to keep in mind that these men are not good, for humanity or for people. They are simply too boring and gullible to be allowed.

To be clear, we should be doing more research with students, but this need to ask about AI and its influence in writing illustrates a mis-understanding of the goals of teaching writing. In other words, we're still not asking the right questions.

Scores of bots. Not broken hearted supporters. Mostly, bots brought him to power and bots will bring him down.

Trump is putting crucial school funding at risk by dismantling the Department of Education: See how much federal funding your school district could lose Last month, President Trump ordered Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to move forward with plans to close the Department of Education (ED). While this move is illegal and has been met with litigati...

And EPI has this primer

www.epi.org/blog/trump-i...

Funny. So much research on writing and so little of it ever once asked a student a thing. Now we're all about asking students about their AI use. Like what are we even doing.

This in so many ways.

I may have misread a lot on this but I *think* extreme affluence and privilege shapes people far more than booing does. Almost to the point of it being conceptually shaky to assume that a person born a royal has the same emotional baseline as someone born a peasant.

No, honey, that wasn’t your moral compass. That was the civil rights movement.

Same, Sarah, same.

TFW you're reading about a book premised on things that, well, are simply not even in the least bit true in the practice of the thing in the world (based on my years of practicing the thing in the world.) So goes academic knowledge making, I guess.

A large yard spinner with four movable circles that will spin in the wind. It is shaped something like a zinnia flower. the two inner circles red "petals" and the two outer circles have petals of different colors (yellow, purple, pink. green blue)

#FlowerReport A different kind of flower: a zinnia whirligig. #SmallJoys

Y'all with Murkowski are like Lucy and the football. Stop blaming her. Start blaming yourselves.

Same, Drew, same. Lots of start up cash.

A close up photo of a dark pink mini rose on a dark green rose bush.

#FlowerReport mini rose. Finding the small joys! Here's hoping you do as well.

Yes, please. I've been wrangling with getting my membership sorted. So interested in what y'all found. lmelono at clemson dot edu. Pretty please.

Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

Mass murderer.

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Pete Hegseth is yet more proof that men are too emotional to be in positions of leadership.