Author: marcwatkins
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Spotting Bullshit in the Era of GenAI
There’s too Much Nonsense on the Web Now, How Do We Prepare for GenAI? I often fantasize about teaching a course about our cultural moment, and boy are we in one now. GenAI’s impact may be far reaching, challenging core concepts about what it means to write, to read, and “be” within our digital realms.…
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From Panic to Reality: How Generative AI is Actually Impacting Student Writing
I won’t bury the lead—many of my students aren’t using ChatGPT or other generative AI tools in numbers or ways that genuinely threaten academic integrity or warrant the panic we’ve been seeing. This is after allowing them to explore the technology in structured assignments and freely within their own writing. It has been two full…
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It’s Time to Train
Note: Now that Twitter killed the API to Substack, I’m forced to copy my posts here. Fun times. -Robot weightlifting a college professor, Lexica The spring semester is ending and by mid-May I’m scheduled to give my 30th presentation, talk, panel, podcast, workshop, etc. on generative AI since August of 2022. It’s been exhausting, but…
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