Marie Becker
@alulaauburn.bsky.social
Reading, writing and herding cats. Trying to advocate for students and humanist pedagogy in a tiny flailing way. She/her. AI-critical, chronically ill, trying to build shelter out of books and yarn.
I've been teaching "Writing with Sources" to college students for the past ten weeks and "[seemingly not a scientist] notes that Anthropic and Google have both published research papers on the topic" is sending me. Idk where it's sending me, but it's sending me.
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I've been teaching "Writing with Sources" to college students for the past ten weeks and "[seemingly not a scientist] notes that Anthropic and Google have both published research papers on the topic" is sending me. Idk where it's sending me, but it's sending me.
Gee maybe if he knew more about art history—or consulted with a human who did—his comparisons wouldn’t have been so shallow and unconvincing.
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Gee maybe if he knew more about art history—or consulted with a human who did—his comparisons wouldn’t have been so shallow and unconvincing.
Just exhaustedly went through several student papers explaining the “bigger words” and “explanations” from their ChatGPT prompts didn’t actually answer any of the questions I asked in the prompt
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Just exhaustedly went through several student papers explaining the “bigger words” and “explanations” from their ChatGPT prompts didn’t actually answer any of the questions I asked in the prompt
All the time—I feel like I’ve basically ruined my life trying to both work and take care of myself and succeeding at neither
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
All the time—I feel like I’ve basically ruined my life trying to both work and take care of myself and succeeding at neither
I’m obsessed with them
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’m obsessed with them
Reposted by Marie Becker
I poured everything I had into this one. "I see you gathering, hundreds at a time, to learn, to keep watch, and bare your teeth. I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could." organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I poured everything I had into this one. "I see you gathering, hundreds at a time, to learn, to keep watch, and bare your teeth. I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could." organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...
What a dashing gentlecat!
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
What a dashing gentlecat!
This Mary Chapin Carpenter song about it also always gives me too many feels www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIVx...
On with the Song
YouTube video by Mary Chapin Carpenter - Topic
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November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This Mary Chapin Carpenter song about it also always gives me too many feels www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIVx...
That paw has PLANS
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
That paw has PLANS
My boss keeps sending us pedagogy and classroom management tips beginning with “so I asked ChatGPT.” I hate it.
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
My boss keeps sending us pedagogy and classroom management tips beginning with “so I asked ChatGPT.” I hate it.
Honestly, I don’t feel like I can even expect the institutions I teach at supporting me in treating this as a concern, considering the utter lack of interest in any conversation about GenAI other than how to include it as a job skill. I did get a memo about telling them not to eat in class, though
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Honestly, I don’t feel like I can even expect the institutions I teach at supporting me in treating this as a concern, considering the utter lack of interest in any conversation about GenAI other than how to include it as a job skill. I did get a memo about telling them not to eat in class, though
This is how I feel as a teacher and too many of my colleagues tell me I have to get over it
October 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is how I feel as a teacher and too many of my colleagues tell me I have to get over it
Living your best life?
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Living your best life?
And the added insult when they claim this is actually teaching us to self-advocate and be proactive.
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
And the added insult when they claim this is actually teaching us to self-advocate and be proactive.
The one thing that gives me a little hope is when I explained this to my “writing with sources” students—an “underprepared,” marginalized non-elite population—as one of the reasons I do not incorporate genAI “skills” in their class—they got it.
October 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The one thing that gives me a little hope is when I explained this to my “writing with sources” students—an “underprepared,” marginalized non-elite population—as one of the reasons I do not incorporate genAI “skills” in their class—they got it.
I just left my old job as a writing specialist at a university for a lot of reasons, including what felt to me an uncritical approach to AI, but one of the things I know made an actual difference was when I sent individual, personal texts to students to check in.
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I just left my old job as a writing specialist at a university for a lot of reasons, including what felt to me an uncritical approach to AI, but one of the things I know made an actual difference was when I sent individual, personal texts to students to check in.
Also, as someone who dealt with both physical and mental health issues in college and grad school, this would have made me feel creeped out and judged, not cared for.
October 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Also, as someone who dealt with both physical and mental health issues in college and grad school, this would have made me feel creeped out and judged, not cared for.
I've worked on a heavily "data-driven" campus and a) surveillance is not the same as care, b) students can tell the difference between genuine reach-outs by a person and a bot and c) students are already inundated with so much noise this will just train them to ignore more.
October 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I've worked on a heavily "data-driven" campus and a) surveillance is not the same as care, b) students can tell the difference between genuine reach-outs by a person and a bot and c) students are already inundated with so much noise this will just train them to ignore more.