Cate Denial

It's especially surprising in my case because I grew up in a big city and nowhere near a farm.

I learned to drive a tractor before I learned to drive a car.

It's the most amazing fun!

• The History of Birth Control and Reproduction in the United States.
• The History of Gender and Sexuality in the United States.
• The History of Marriage in the United States.

• Seminar: Exploring Native and Indigenous History.
• Seminar: Museums, Monuments and Memory.
• Seminar: Reproductive Justice in the U.S. since 1973.
• Seminar: Women, Gender, and the American Revolution.
• Sleuthing, Sources, and Skills.

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Academic history colleagues, list all the courses you teach:

• History Pedagogy for Future Educators.
• Intro to Native and Indigenous History.
• The Historian's Workshop.
• Native and Indigenous History since 1871.
• Pirates in the Atlantic World.
• Power and Inequity in America to 1865.

more:

This is pathological

Totally. And yeah, the second book is always such a big lift!

And I did not enjoy it, to be honest! But it was foundational

Lots of things about my comps experience were very bad. But the fact that reading widely and analyzing texts is foundational to a PhD progam is something that AI cannot replace (which is the context here)

This is such an important point. My three fields were North American Women and Gender; The American West; and Latin American history. *hundreds* of books. And I had three eight-hour written exams and a two-hour oral exam.

"AI" is Yesterday's News I gave this talk yesterday to the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as part of the MTA Retired First Wednesday Speaker Series. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. I’m honored...

an algorithm controlled by some of the largest and richest corporations the world has ever seen, run by the wealthiest men the world has ever known."

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-is-yester...

-- a system, a technology that demands teachers work harder with less dignity and less authority; one that transfers knowledge from the lived experience and expertise of the classroom into a repository . . . (more)

From @audreywatters.bsky.social's newsletter today:

"There is no magic bullet, no magic technology that “saves” time; only a system that demands more and more from each of us, only a technology that further extracts and exploits and denigrates . . ." (more)

This is an amazing resource, showing the media capture of various AI/tech companies.

Flow chart showing OpenAI, Google Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Perplexity, ProRate.ai, IBM, Mistral, Anthropic, Nvidia, in that order with the biggest deals, with OpenAI having 21 deals, Google 17, Meta 8, Microsoft 4, Amazon 3.

Check out this interactive website by Nana Mgbechikwere, showing BigTech and "AI" companies' media capture.

No wonder the public is getting misinformed.

They say it is inspired by @surveillancewatch.bsky.social, which ❤️

nananwachukwu.github.io

Let us know if we can help in any way!

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Congrats!

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And is if my last post wasn't exciting enough, I'm also presenting with @drkevinrmcclure.com and @detroittoaccra.bsky.social on "Faculty, Care, and Leadership in the Contemporary University." April 17, 4.45pm!

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So excited to be presenting with @josheyler.bsky.social, @liznorell.bsky.social, and @thetattooedprof.bsky.social on "The Case against Using GenAI in Education: Meeting the Moment with Care and Courage" at AAC&U's CLASS conference! April 17, 11am. It's going to be so much fun!

Banner that reads "I'm presenting! CLASS 2026: the AAC&U conference on learning and student success. Tuscon, AZ, April 15-18."

And is if my last post wasn't exciting enough, I'm also presenting with @drkevinrmcclure.com and @detroittoaccra.bsky.social on "Faculty, Care, and Leadership in the Contemporary University." April 17, 4.45pm!

A banner that reads "I'm Presenting! CLASS 2026: Conference on Learning and Student Success" Tuscon, AZ, April 15-18.

So excited to be presenting with @josheyler.bsky.social, @liznorell.bsky.social, and @thetattooedprof.bsky.social on "The Case against Using GenAI in Education: Meeting the Moment with Care and Courage" at AAC&U's CLASS conference! April 17, 11am. It's going to be so much fun!

I'm so sorry to hear this. Not being able to get warm really takes it out of you. I always feel slower and clumsier when I'm cold, too.

If you define "research" as, say, producing scatter plots or sorting quantitative data faster than a human could, well...is that really research? Or is it processing? "Using google maps" is different than "taking a vacation."

I felt that in my soul

How I'm Teaching About Generative AI Every choice I make about how to discuss GenAI with my students is predicated on trusting them

New today in TIW: Historian @cjdenial.bsky.social on teaching about AI. "in every iteration of this conversation I have had with students in the last two years, there is one constant: almost no one knows about the ethical issues surrounding GenAI before they delve into the readings I’ve assigned."

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

This is a fabulous example of why LLMs are not useful for historical research. I'll be using this reading in class!

Yikes!