Hey Human

It’s been a long time since I’ve regularly written posts about education, ed tech, or anything related to my work.

When I was in graduate school, we began a blog called GradHacker (still to be found here: https://www.gradhacker.org/) which then moved over to Inside Higher Ed. Since I left the Higher Ed world, with only occasional dips into adjunct life, I largely ended my practice of writing half-baked thoughts on the internet about education in general, ed tech in specific, and turned my attention to my work with the Michigan Council of Teachers of English and my day-to-day in K12.

Recently, I’ve been hanging out with Paul Allison and the crew at Teachers Teaching Teachers to talk about Generative AI and its impact on ourselves and our students as writers. Additionally, I published an article co-written with AI in the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning called “Asking the Right Questions.” I was lucky enough to join the TTT crew where we read the article and then generated annotations with the help of AI Thought Partners on NowComment, making that article very meta.

All of that to say, I am thinking, and talking, and reading and all of that activity has inspired me to do a little writing. It has been so long since I’ve regularly written that I am pretty sure I set this website up incorrectly and am struggling to adapt to the way WordPress looks now in the near decade I’ve been away from regular writing on the internet. What I’m hoping to do here is to track my thinking as it evolves as well as share resources and ideas about teaching in a world with GenAI in it as a way to fully embody my humanness through writing and expression. If I use any GenAI (for example, I had to test out the logo generator that WordPress suggested to me), I will highlight it and link to my prompts and chats when and if I utilize a GenAI tool.

I would love to hear about how you are using GenAI, either for your own personal use or with students. What’s making you excited? What’s worrying you? What would be helpful as we learn to navigate together?