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The Literature Crisis: Why Adolescent Readers Are Not Reading and What Can Be Done About It
Standardized Tests in a Non-Standardized World: Smith's Insult to Intelligence Reprised
Living Inside Quotation Marks: "Intelligence" or Intelligence? Pick Your "Poison"
Language as Distributed Cognition: Simulated Language as Pattern Recognition
Info Hunters, Onlife Gatherers: Human Retrievers in Action
Institutional Paradoxes in the Age of Language Machines
Apple’s New Study Is Already Old News
Teaching Onlife in the Infosphere: On Being There
Reading Texts Generated By Agents Without Intelligence
Epistemic Agency and the Substrate Problem: Realization of Reading Comprehension with LLMs
Why LLMs Matters Despite Their Agency without Intelligence
Floridi’s Levels of Abstraction (LoA): From Reading Recovery to Writing Instruction
The Gap Between AI Input and Output: The Human Work of Making Meaning from AI Text
A Self-Assessment Tool for Teachers: Developing Self-Awareness of Instructional Values and Cheating
research, not Research: seeing the Forest and the trees in one swell foop
Teachers' Emotional Responses to AI Shape Student Learning Experiences
The Teacher as Text Designer, the Student as LLM: How AI Disrupts Traditional Writing Pedagogy
Reclaiming Writing as a Human Enterprise
Reading Recovery: A Documented Winner for Supporting Struggling Readers
Distant Writing: Time Travel to the Distant Future
Understanding AI Academic Misconduct Under the CCCC Umbrella: A Functional Analysis
The Psychology of Authoritarianism: From Post-WWII to January 6, 2021
Thoughts on Using AI During Drafting
The B.R.a.i.N.: A Homeopathic Solution to Cognitive Atrophy from Overuse of LLMs
Narratives from the Crib (1989): A Review and Extension
Compression: Compression’s Companion
The Rhetorical Work of Public Polls: Hidden Messages
Erving Goffman on AI: Resurrecting a Seminal Sociological Voice
The AI Feedback Illusion: When Technology Favors Some Learners But Not Others
Why Your Child's Education Shouldn't Be Outsourced to AI: Lessons from Evolutionary Biology
Inside the Black Box: A Landmark Study on AI Interpretability by Anthropic
From Einstein to the Hood: The Art of Crafting Simple AI Prompt Personas
Samuel Johnson: The AI Dictionary Mentor
From Roman Masks to Digital Mentors: It’s All About the Persona
When's the Best Time to Visit Paris?
The Future of Literacy Instruction in Europe: What the U.S. Might Learn
The Latest Evidence of a Crisis in Reading Comprehension
The Space Between Imagination and Knowledge
Printed Words: Coins in the Devil's Purse
Institutional Paralysis, Instructional Self-Centricity, and Student Reality
The Short But Happy Life of the Five-Paragraph Essay
The First College Essay: A Dialectical Irony
Public Education in the Crosshairs
Physical Libraries In Simulated Neighborhoods
Empathic Intelligence and Mutual Consciousness
Wisdom: Knowing When to Hold Your Tongue
Turn-Taking: Taking Pedagogical Advantage of a Universal Feature of Language Behavior
Human Conversations: A False Analogy for Bot Prompting
Theory of Mind: AI vs. Human Consciousness
Expert Visioning: Coding, Highlighting, Representing
Pondering the Bot: The Contrast Between Wandering and Slipping
Second Opinions and a Culture of Shared Learning
Silent Letters, Silenced Teachers
A Long View on Professorial Resistance to AI
Meaningful Work with Simulation Tools
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
AI Integration in Writing Instruction: From Research to Practice
Beyond Rules: Teaching Bot Grammar as Functional, Not Structural
A Crisis of Close Reading: Invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798
Ideology in Literacy Teaching: Phonics and the Bot
Looking for the Next World: Possible Risks of Cognitive Offloading in an AI Education Landscape
Claude: Your Midnight Metacognitive Booster
Beyond the Four Corners: How Coleman's Common Core Flattened Reading Comprehension
The Uncommon Core: “Nobody Gives a Shit What Students Feel or Think”
Lazy Brain Syndrome: Language Machines, Cultural Models, and the Erosion of Critical Thinking
Reading Between the Dollar Signs
Disembodied Education: Writing for a Bureaucratic Audience
Vocabulary and Concept Development with AI-Integration: The Williams' Keyword Strategy
Teaching Audience Awareness Using LLMs
Some Good Advice for Teachers Struggling with AI
Agentized and Anthropomimetic Late-Night Book Clubs
Diplomatic Discourse in the Line of Fire
Where the Ducks Go in the Winter
Huckleberry Finn and the Answering Machine
Fools or Tools: America’s Recurrent Failure to Think Critically at the Ballot Box
The AI Campus Crisis: A Parent's Search for Educational Clarity
The Reconstruction of Memory: How Present Views Shape Our Past Perceptions
Why Writing is like Defying Gravity
A Critical Analysis: Microsoft’s January, 2025, Study of Critical Thinking and Knowledge Workers
Bargaining with the Devil: OpenAI and the CSU
Navigating AI in Writing Education: Looking Ahead
Rethinking Institutional Resistance to AI in Education: Lessons from Professional Adaptation
Circular Logic: When Anti-AI Arguments Reveal Their Own Weaknesses
Critical Thinking: Evidence that It’s Not All About Evidence
Reductio ad Absurdum in Flagrante Delicto: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
Using Cognitive Load Theory to Explore Impacts on Learning of Free Access to AI
Close Reading, Critical Thinking, and the New American Presidency
A Promising Practice: AI-Mentor Prompts for Student Exploration of their Writing Processes
Writing-to-Learn: Writers’ Voices Telling Beautiful Truths
The Work of Writers: Heads or Tails
Writing with Commitment: When Attention Becomes Intention
Feet of Clay: On Walking Upright
Close Reading of Complex Literature: What About AI?
Analysis of Assessment Challenges in AI Writing Classrooms
The Evolution of Writing Rubrics: Good, Bad, and Ugly
Ten Commandments in MAGAWorld: Your Path to the Promised Land
From Medieval Monks to Machine Learning
Ethnography and Phenomenology: More or Less
Detecting Plagiarism: Safeguarding the Code
Letter from Claude Sonnet in Apologetic Mode: Attention Middle and High School Students
The Friction, Stickiness, and the Fun of Handwriting
AI in the Writing Classroom: A Nightmare Scenario
Lifewide Writing: What Happens After High School?
AI in Writing Classrooms: From Rules to Reader Response
Writing: An Ancient Craft in a Brave New World
Remodeling the Transmission Model of Teaching
Writing Task Environments as Situated Frames for Human Literacy Crafts
On Turning the Tables and Disconnecting the Cables
Learning to Talk Back: From Galatea to Eliza Doolittle
Reflections On My Interview with George Washington
Inside the Prison of Institutional Language: A Pedagogy of the Obsessed
Teacher as Reader: Pamela Moss's 1992 Portfolio Assessment Framework for the AI Writing Era