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Anthropomorphism: Constraint or Affordance in Mentor Prompts?
Rummaging around in a folder labeled “good mentor prompts” containing documents from two years ago drafted during an AI-and-Writing research project…
Jul 13
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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Devil's Advocate: How AI Can Resurrect Reading Assignments
Reading comprehension is hard to explain to someone else not just because it usually happens entirely, silently, inside the head; the whirlwind of…
Jul 8
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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How Many Types of Thinking Are There?
Robert Epstein’s widely cited argument has convinced thousands of people that the computer metaphor for the brain is wrong on several fronts.
Jul 5
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Critical Thinking and Persuasive Writing
We know that writing is thinking.
Jul 2
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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June 2026
The Science of Reading Goes to Washington
I recently spent an afternoon trying to get an AI to argue against the Science of Reading (SoR) movement.
Jun 29
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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Correspondence in the California State University: The Syllabus Says
Rules Rule, Correspondence Corresponds
Jun 25
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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The Pool, the Painter, the President, and a Nation Sinking in a Swamp
Once again, I’m astonished at how stupidly trusting I am, how foolishly I attend to the illusion of America instead of valuing evermore its bedrock…
Jun 22
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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No Longer What They Were, Not Yet What They Will Become
Following a recent $14.2 million renovation intended to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool “American-flag blue,” the 6.5 million-gallon basin is…
Jun 19
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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Reading, Lifelong Learning, and Ethical Reasoning in the Age of AI
What does it mean to be truly well educated?
Jun 17
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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Writing Instruction: A Cat With Nine Lives Hanging On By Its Tail in Texas
"What I saw for years was that because it was only tested in fourth and seventh grade, students would only get explicit writing instruction in fourth…
Jun 16
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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Texas TEA’s ASE: Texas Fails the AI Scoring Test
The spark that set the Texas Education Agency’s test system smoldering in 2019 was a single startling number from the 2018 STAAR reading results. On the…
Jun 16
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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The Unwilling Suspension of Belief: Critical Thinking and Writing in Tension
“Having to think about it, instead of just write it, took some getting used to… ” (Danielle Ozaki, World Civilizations student, quoted in Condon and…
Jun 13
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Terry Underwood, PhD
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