Melissa Pilakowski

Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.

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“When people rely on large language models to summarize information on a topic for them, they tend to develop shallower knowledge about it compared to learning through a standard Google search.”

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A reminder for the start of 2026: Tech companies are NOT your friend. They exist to make money - literally, that is their purpose.

#TechnologyLiteracy #TechLit #InformationLiteracy #InfoLit #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

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Added this to my AI bookmark folder. Thank you for this well organized doc!

Added this to my AI bookmark folder. Thank you for this well organized doc!

Yep. Not the creator's cleverest work today.

lots of data about correlation between school adoption of AI and consequences for students

"But the correlation between school AI adoption and personal AI relationships is clear across multiple behaviors."

Ummm...this also seems bad.

So much of this connects with the importance of student choice in independent reading. Students who get sparked into reading don't usually do it with shared texts--it's that ONE book or author that hooks them into a love of reading.

(Not saying shared texts aren't important. They are.)

I've been having conversations with other profs this week about this change of pedagogy. I see other non-English areas starting to lean more into the writing process, writing during classtime, and away from the product. It's a good thing.

#EduSky #iteachEnglish

For anyone jumping with excitement, temper yourself.

Yes, we need to continue adjusting to and reassessing AI in the classroom.

Doing so with a grant from Big Tech with a dog in the AI game? That's problematic. #EduSky #iteachEnglish #edtech

Students internalize that "sounding" a certain way is what's desired in the writing transaction, so if there's a way to make that happen, they will take advantage. I've said from the get-go that the chief challenge of LLMs is figuring out what we should value when it comes to the writing students do

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Me reading that email yesterday...especially when I noticed the Google bit in the corner

This, again and again.

Teachers using AI for feedback--it's another side of the AI ethics debate.

But SHOULD WE? What does the research say?

I dug into some studies and this is what I found. (tl;dr: human is better, but not by much)

#edusky #iteachEnglish #Edtech

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Ugh. Seems like they went through this a couple years ago when Google had a major update :(

Great analogy! I hope time proves it true!

I feel this in my soul.

TONIGHT!! #EduSky #iTeachEnglish

Oh yay, there's a recording!! Great! I'm gonna be busy tonight going to THE STANLEY HOTEL (!!!) but I really want to be in both places at once!!

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Hi all.

The school year is nigh. It's time to face AI dilemmas again.

Should you integrate AI or ban it? I can't answer that for you. But here are thoughts I shared with our adjuncts about it.

#iteachEnglish #edusky #edchat #HigherEdSky

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You've got a great looking product!!

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I've spent several weeks researching the different journaling approaches writers use.

Here's what I found out, and maybe one of them is one you'd like to try!

#writing #authors #WritingCommunity #Writersky #WritingResources

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What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

A long and depressing piece, but the answers are all in there: high school and college writing are not going to be destroyed by AI unless teachers and professors let it or help. They will only be revived by structuring classes around process and paper.

Half-Drafts were the BIGGEST change I made last year while teaching writing.
1) They decreased anxiety
2) Improved my feedbk
3) Resulted in better quality of writing

I wrote about my and my students' experiences here

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#iteachEnglish #EduSky #ISTE #ISTELIVE #iste25

Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...

Tips for Using AI—and for Talking to Students About It Here are a few ways teachers can use AI-enhanced tools and prepare to talk about the technology with students.

Educator @rdene915.bsky.social shares a few ways teachers can use AI-enhanced tools *and* prepare to talk about the technology with students. 🖥️

#EduAI #EduSkyAI #EduSky

Last week, researchers released a fascinating study about

AI 🖥️, writing ✏️, & the brain 🧠

The gist: Make students use their brains first--the learning will be longer lasting.

I condensed it all here. #iteachEnglish #ELA #EduSky

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Last week, researchers released a fascinating study about

AI 🖥️, writing ✏️, & the brain 🧠

The gist: Make students use their brains first--the learning will be longer lasting.

I condensed it all here. #iteachEnglish #ELA #EduSky

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Love the mood!

Check out my conversation with @marcusluther.bsky.social on @thebrokencopier.bsky.social podcast about #ArtfulAI in the #writing classroom.

This is a fraught topic, but one that deserves our attention, and thinking things through with Marcus is always a joy 🙂

Brett's book, as well as AI in the WRiting Classroom, have really guided my AI use for this coming year. I'd dabbled in AI in the classroom, but Brett really made the concepts and uses more concrete! #iteachenglish