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L A Chambers's avatar

Read this right after reading a semi-viral LinkedIn post about how if you (the ephemeral you) are not using AI to do all your writing, you’re failing. Your article regenerated a bit of hope that had otherwise been aggressively drained from my body when I read that LI post.

Writing is about so much more than producing words; it’s critically thinking, researching, organizing thoughts, struggling, failing, trying again, editing, refining, etc. All skills that echo into our lives in a myriad of ways. We need to know how to write not so we can get leads or create useless filler content but so we can understand information and communicate clearly for ourselves and our communities.

Sorry, I’ll give you your soapbox back 🫴

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Paul Erb's avatar

I read a piece recently in a book called "Learning from Cheating" that suggested students are so used to sampling, forwarding, re-posting, re-using digital content that intertextuality IS their language. So they don't even think a) it's cheating or b) it's meaningless. Their endorsement counts as, let's say, "publishing." And that DOES mean they're not creating from the blank page. So I'm looking for the new launch-pad that compares to the blank page. I think that's where we're headed...a variety of launch-pads.

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