Anthony Sams
ajsams.bsky.social
Anthony Sams
@ajsams.bsky.social
Professor of English at a community college. Devotee of old books, old music, old movies, new recipes, new ideas, and new experiences.
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In every dystopian novel: the government bans books.

In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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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
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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.
August 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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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.
August 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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.
August 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"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...
Opinion | What A.I. Really Means for Learning
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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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...
Peter Elbow was right about teaching writing
Will we ever take it?
www.insidehighered.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM