Zach Czaia

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

Teachers! If your students are using AI to write their papers, maybe it's because you personally are not using AI enough. Here's my new @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-n...

This is some great satirical writing, a la Swift's Modest Proposal! I think it would be fun to take class with @taliaargondezzi.bsky.social

"Scrupulous and well researched, this is a much-needed portrait of an often-overlooked area of American Catholicism." ~Publishers Weekly #Racism #Identity #Religion

Read the review: https://bit.ly/4mGTM6z. BLACK AND CATHOLIC by @tiaphd.bsky.social is coming soon!

It is important to not mistake the demands of the job for your real work in the classroom. Show up for the students in ways that count the most and that the system can’t measure. That’s where your agency lives. Where your work matters most. #EdChat #EduSky

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My new essay on AI (www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/) includes quotes from, or links to, writings by @emilymbender.bsky.social, @palan57.bsky.social, @stopgenai.com, @ddmeyer.bsky.social, @zachczaia.bsky.social, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social, @garymarcus.bsky.social ....

Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies Visit the post for more.

Thanks @zackteitel.bsky.social for provocation/inspiration. Thanks @rcmeg.bsky.social @jsanofranchini.bsky.social Maggie Fernandes for brilliant Quickstart Guide: refusinggenai.wordpress.com

AI Literacy as Sex Ed? “There’s a line I use when teaching about building AI literacy in K-12 classrooms: ‘At the end of the day, it’s just sex ed.’ Every time I share it, I’m met with nods, chuckles, and that look of sudde...

‘AI Literacy as Sex Ed?’

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‘Consider the bad times, and who they are good for.’ Brilliant line and brilliant piece.

Thank you, David. Just finished reading WE BECOME WHAT WE NORMALIZED this week, and already want to re read it. I didn’t know how much I needed that book.

Thanks @daviddark.bsky.social for added inspiration on this piece. Highly recommend all his work.

"Know Where You Stand, and Stand There" Notes on Daniel Berrigan's Poems and Another School Shooting

‘Know Where You Stand and Stand There’: Notes on Some of Daniel Berrigan’s Poems and Another School Shooting

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Teaching without Teaching by Scott F. Parker Introducing One Subject Press' First New Book!

One Subject Press just released our first new book, and it is a beauty. TEACHING WITHOUT TEACHING by Scott F. Parker. zachczaia.substack.com/p/teaching-w...

Minnesota is taking an ungodly amount of hits this year.

This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion — the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death.

So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.

asking the non-sentient sentence generator that uses sentient authors’ works without their consent if it consents to you using a pastiche of others’ work that you commanded it to produce is some of the highest decoupling I have seen Lo these many years

And shout out to @profjw.bsky.social whose wonderful “Critical Magic Theory” was big inspiration.

"Another Round" A Movie Review & Other Back to School Recommendations

New post out, “Another Round” up on Substack.

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This is terrific, Nathan. Do you know of anything comparable to this for secondary school teachers?

This about sums it up

An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

And thanks @alfiekohn.bsky.social for sharing out principled Open letter on genAI. Link here as well:

openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

Other teacher/writers on this platform— @annieabrams.bsky.social @biblioracle.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social @susangbarber.bsky.social @melaltersmith.bsky.social and more, love to know your thoughts.

Bots Over Books In Which OpenAI and Canvas Steal from Real Artists—and Children—for their Mediocre Group Project, and the Schools Give them an “A”

Some thoughts on the Instructure/OpenAI partnership.

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Thank you @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social

Israel is starving Gaza. And killing those trying not to starve.

God who keeps faith with all who sleep in the dust, have mercy. Give us courage to act, to end & atone for this evil, for the blood we have spilled & watched being spilled, for the universes forever lost through our action & inaction.

I’m pleased to announce the formation of a new political party, the United States party.

Our core platform: tax the rich until every last one of them is middle class; use what our gain$ to save the planet.

first seven poems for #PoemADayJuly (all listed at link, too)

Starting Tuesday: #PoemADayJuly with myself, @heymrsbond.com and @thevogelman.bsky.social 😎

The first seven poems listed here—we'll discuss one each day, and everyone is welcome! Building community by talking about poetry is a pretty cool thing, so let's do it!

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Thanks @annieabrams.bsky.social @frankstrong.bsky.social for inspiration. (And would be interested to know your thoughts on this declaration.)

"The Best That's Been Thought And Said" Some Thoughts on the Classical Education Movement & The Heritage Foundation's "Phoenix Declaration"

New post up on Classical Education Movement and Heritage Foundation’s ‘Phoenix Declaration’:

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Thank you @frankstrong.bsky.social and @annieabrams.bsky.social ! Such a helpful and nourishing conversation to listen in on.

Strong words from the Pope on Netanyahu’s crimes & the complicity of the west:

“Herod, for fear of being deposed, murdered children, who even today continue to be torn apart by bombs; Pilate washed his hands, as we risk doing every day until we arrive at the point of no return.”