Had a blast watching all the amazing entries in Pittsburgh's 48 Hour Film Festival, but I do have a favorite!

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Students must learn how to get things wrong. Only one subject does that. [English.]

I invest a lot of energy asking my college students to unlearn the pattern of summary and personal reflection that was enough to to earn a good grade in high school. I emphasize repeatedly that their high school teachers didn’t do anything wrong by teaching them what they needed to do in order to get…

In October, 2002, I was blogging about stupid space explosions, the superiority complex, why whitespace matters, usability testing, and Krispy Kreme

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Weird History offers a good debunking of this persistent myth.

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My mother has taught me so much. I'm delighted I get to sit in her living room and teach her how to text.

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The AI revolution is powered by these contractors making $15 an hour

Students who cheat with ChatGPT can look forward to these $15/hr jobs training the AI that they relied upon to get them their degrees. The students who actually did the work themselves should be much be better prepared to demonstrate how their work differs from the mediocre stream of bot-produced content. Savreux is part of…

Spring 2023 Grades: Submitted! (I only had 3 last-minute submissions to mark today.)

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Headlines matter. Were they migrants, people who happened to be at a migrant center, pedestrians, or manslaughter victims?

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RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye

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Today’s unexpected but welcome moments of grace

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They grew up in a mostly analog/paper world and squirmed with joy the first time they clicked a hyperlink that they created

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Requiem for the Newsroom

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AP Style tips on “neurodiversity”

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National Mall site approved for memorial to fallen journalists

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The Struggle to Save Ballet From Itself

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Family Business (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 23) Quark feuds with his mother (Andrea Martin); Jake introduces his father to a freighter captain

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Two classes will turn in final revisions at midnight Sunday, and final multimedia projects are in the middle of the week, but my most time-sensitive, intellectually demanding marking – giving detailed feedback on rough drafts – is over for the semester.

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Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots, then develop friendships, Northeastern University researchers say

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