Anthony Sams

Predicting a return to reading books. It will be on the frontier of resisting subjection.

To take this one step further:

#2 in blue, specifically for annotating texts I've printed on standard office printer paper, followed by
#5 in blue, for taking notes.

Yes, this is how my brain works.

Finally something I am qualified to answer on Bluesky.

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Why learn to code when you can use an LLM and pay a subscription fee for the rest of your life.

Terrific! Thanks so much for indulging my curiosity and giving me some wonderful material to review.

I'm increasingly tempted to bring some sort of oral exam component into my lit courses but haven't yet. Do you have advice, guidance, scholarship, etc., that you'd recommend when I'm in this early stage of developing this component?

This 100x: "Many students are eager to engage in activities that help them learn. It then becomes the responsibility of schools and instructors to give students something worth doing."

It takes time and effort and continual engagement and it's never straightforwardly easy, but *that's the work.*

The blogosphere + Google Reader was Good, Actually

I drove to work with @onairmel.lpm.org playing Oasis's "Don't Look Back in Anger" and drove home with @kylemeredith.lpm.org playing Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds's "Red Right Hand."

It was a true test of the volume of my car's speakers and a great reminder of why I love having @lpm.org in my life.

I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.

But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

"It came up in conversation because of [1], [2], [3]. What stood out to me was [1] and [2] and [3]. I find that readers who love fiction are also interested in [1], [2], and [3]."

I don't know, John – sounds promising. I, too, enjoy talking in threes with fellow humans.

Spent even more time looking through the most thoughtful integrations of AI into writing instruction that I can find, & despite the clear care and intention being applied to these projects, I do not see advancements in writing pedagogy. I see novelty injected into the production of written artifacts

Wrote my way into the headline: Is AI Use in Teaching Novelty or Necessity?

Love it—happy birthday, Jimmy! My favorite Zeppelin-era song where Page is listed as the sole composer is "Tangerine," so that's my nomination.

We Have Something Important to Offer Students: Agency If higher ed becomes the transactional model, only now with AI, we’re in big, big trouble.

Lot of wisdom here from @biblioracle.bsky.social . I think many of us, myself included, felt like our undergraduate experience was one of searching and failure. Education is finding yourself and we shouldn’t give up that in the name of efficiency www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Thank you so much for this post and sharing your FYW syllabus! Although my own approach largely mirrors yours, I'm still in the process of revamping a few things for the spring – and these resources are not only terrific but quite timely for me.

We Don’t Need to Retreat From the Challenge of AI in Schools Some common traits at institutions successfully meeting the challenge of teaching in today’s world.

I have seen what progress looks like in figuring out how to teach in a world with AI and it's nothing like what Purdue or Ohio St. are proposing. It's careful, collaborative, and appropriately resourced. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This couldn't have come a better time for me as I'm revising my FYW section for the spring. Thank you!

Line chart showing US teen reading habits since 1985: daily readers fall sharply while those who "hardly ever" read rise to about 48% by 2024.

In every dystopian novel: the government bans books.

In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily.

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is the doctor.

Wisdom is understanding that the doctor IS the monster.

But true enlightenment is only achieved when you do the mash

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Love this idea! My mind immediately went to "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" by Bob Dylan.

I understand why people in education say they're turning to this technology because they have too much to do and they think it can ease the burden, but this is not an AI problem. It's a labor problem that the AI is only going to make worse over time.

Faculty guidelines and frameworks for using generative AI with their students are often unclear and vague. The institutional silence around faculty AI usage risks sending a message of indifference instead of charting a clear path forward. I created a VALUES framework for faculty to consider.

Because of the structure of school, particularly the stakes of assessment, we gave students methods to avoid the struggle of writing in order to create a more convincing simulation of someone who has written, but we were truly ruining the experience of writing along the way. We made it alienating.

Opinion | What A.I. Really Means for Learning

"Perhaps one of the biggest threats that A.I. poses to education isn't that it's going to make educators useless, but that it's going to make educators so much more necessary than we are willing to invest in." – @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

"Highway Patrolman," Bruce Springsteen, from Nebraska (1982)

Peter Elbow was right about teaching writing Will we ever take it?

Some thoughts on the work of Peter Elbow and how we keep seeming to re-learn what he had to teach us. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...