As the semester winds down and the final essays (and incessant queries for lenience) pile up, it's time to check in and check out on this...

That's a good question. The big hullabaloo around AI and academic honesty hinges on that question: if students just use AI to cut corners...

Back in the mid-1990s, I had the opportunity to teach writing courses as a grad student. Our department had also received a significant...

At this point so much of what I'm reading is getting repetitive. That's good; it means we're defining some of the boundaries and pinning...

At this point it would be great if we could just leave AI writer-bots in the dust, much like whatever was at the forefront of last week's...

As someone who loves flux, I hover between the excitement and anxiety of it, thriving on possibilities one minute and wishing I could...

This was finally the week when I broke into AI writer-bots in class. As part of the discussion, some of my students joined me for a...

After 3 months of scrutiny, it seems like interest in AI writing models is waning somewhat. And that's fine. It's also natural; there are...

Earlier this week I finished co-authoring an article with a brilliant coworker about AI and higher education. We both like to experiment...

When I talk to my classes about why they all have to take Comp1, I emphasize that writing is a product of thinking. We meet for class...

It didn't take long for the battle of the bots to get surreal. One of the original criticisms of ChatGPT's writing was that it was bland...

It happened early on: the emergence of ChatGPT struck fear in the minds of a certain group of professionals. Not teachers, or...

We keep hearing that ChatGPT is great at basic writing, but it's limited. It can't be creative. Tools like image and text generators,...

I didn't expect academia to enthusiastically welcome AI writing models, let alone adopt it. Although bans and busters have also been...

Since I work as an instructor at a community college, I hear a lot about "workforce training" as a major institutional push. Most...

AI is big business. It's used for applications far beyond writing and text generation, and that alone tempers the argument that it's just...

Since this has been around for a while, there are actually dozens of great sources to read for a bit of context. I'll limit it to 5...

My goal is to follow this topic long-term through the Spring 2023 semester. The topic of AI models that can generate text (articles,...