the ethical collapse of Bloom’s taxonomy
To start, we need to acknowledge that Bloom’s taxonomy has always been on shaky intellectual ground. It was developed as an ad hoc way of trying to compare courses in mid-century America. It certainly was not designed to become the governing pedagogy theory of higher education. Mainly because it was never and is not a…
the phenomenology of ai
Me: There is a well-known composition essay titled “the phenomenology of error” about how instructors are primed to see error in student work. I think an analogous phenomenology of AI could be written now. Of course student work looks like AI generated student essays. The whole point is to teach students to produce predictable prose…
slow your role: academic chronopolitics
Cutting to the chase, en media res, this is Virilio dromology recast through the predictive+enactive (or anticipatory) intelligence of contemporary AI-temporized culture. Jameson wrote about the shock of speed as an affect of Modernity. We get the “need for speed” from neoliberalism and accerlerationism. So nothing new about speed itself. Anticipatory intelligence however is more…
Ready, set… get ready for readiness: pedagogy, Anticipatory Intelligence and misery
I would frame our higher education situation as follows. We are readying students for future challenges but leaving them unprepared for a future worth inhabiting. This applies broadly but especially with our response to AI. This is not a failure of effort or intention but rather a structural consequence of how attention–>anticipation has come to…
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Alex Reid, professor of digital rhetoric, Media & Artificial Intelligence 