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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

The Story of the Hedge Hog

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

Help!!! 🤷🏼‍♂️

Distant Writing: Time Travel to the Distant Future

Understanding AI Academic Misconduct Under the CCCC Umbrella: A Functional Analysis

The Dark Art of Cheating

The Psychology of Authoritarianism: From Post-WWII to January 6, 2021

The Hidden Curriculum Exposed

Is Cheating the American Way?

Thoughts on Using AI During Drafting

I think, therefore, I know what I know; I offload, therefore, I raise the potential of knowing more (or less)

The B.R.a.i.N.: A Homeopathic Solution to Cognitive Atrophy from Overuse of LLMs

Moving Beyond I Don’t Know

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

Why We Need Second Opinions

Reclaiming the Lost Art of Teaching Writing: How Recent Educational Reform Derailed Decades of Progress and Assisted AI

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

Storybook Literacy

Empathic Intelligence and Mutual Consciousness

The Water Remembers

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

Preparing for an AI Chat, Master Prompting for an AI Chat, Processing the Output, Refining the Master Prompt, Interrogating the Output to Get What You Want from the Machine

Expert Visioning: Coding, Highlighting, Representing

Pondering the Bot: The Contrast Between Wandering and Slipping

Miscues or Errors? You Decide

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

The Forgotten R

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

Gambling with AI in Nevada

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

Who's In Command Here?

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

Writing as Moral Engagement

A Critical Analysis: Microsoft’s January, 2025, Study of Critical Thinking and Knowledge Workers

Bargaining with the Devil: OpenAI and the CSU

With Each Passing Morning

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

A Close Artificial Reading: Executive Orders, Cabinet Appointments, Congressional Control, FBI, and DOJ

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

Hidden in Plain Sight

A Writer's Instinct

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

Verbalizing Reality

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

Beyond the Metaphor Trap: How AI Compels Teachers to Reimagine Voice, Authenticity, and Writing Instruction

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

New Year’s Resolutions: 2025

Teacher as Reader: Pamela Moss's 1992 Portfolio Assessment Framework for the AI Writing Era