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Once More to the Paragraph
#teaching writing An email from The New Yorker a few mornings ago gave me a teaching idea. In it, Nathan Heller discusses E.B. White’s long relationship with the magazine. White is probably most famous for a children’s book, Charlotte’s Web, or perhaps for “Once More to the Lake,” an essay much anthologized in student textbooks, but at The New Yorker…

Talking to Dragons
#teaching #ai I was talking with Jennifer Fletcher about the perils of AI for education and one of the points she made was that we should be careful not to anthropomorphize AI. I think that is true, but difficult. Humans anthropomorphize EVERYTHING, from pets, to cars, to …