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Joyce Reynolds-Ward's avatar

I'll be interested in that book--my special ed Master's project focused on remedial writing. Part of my ten years of sped teaching involved working with reluctant middle school writers, and I have my own notions regarding the teaching of writing (including the fact that most teachers, including English teachers, haven't the faintest clue unless they regularly write themselves. I cringed more than once when pushing in to English classes because some of the curriculum around "what makes a good writer" is not...accurate. Needless to say, I gained credibility when I earned a Writers of the Future SemiFinalist placement).

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James's avatar

Dead internet theory posits that large chunks of the web are absent of human activity. It’s just bots and LLMs and generative AI building feedback loops for each other and spinning off increasingly weird stuff. Shrimp Jesus, for example.

Seems like we’re destined to see this in schools. Students who are bots. Students who use AI for everything. Schools and unis happy to use AI for grading and feedback. At some point, it’s AI doing assignments for other AI to grade. No humans necessary.

Let’s call it dead schooling theory.

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