the late age of rhetoric and composition
In the early nineties, Jay Bolter observed the arrival of a late age of print the presaged not an end to print per se, but an end to viewing print as necessary. That is, our ability to imagine a world within print, changed print. Of course, even 10-15 years ago, I would think the majority…
generative AI and the chronopolitics of higher education
One aspect of our conversation is the role that generative AI should play in faculty pedagogical labor. In Brightspace, as you may know, in the discussion section, you can get AI to design questions aligned to Bloom’s taxonomy (ugh!) which you can insert for your students to answer. AI built into CMS is a good…
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…
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Alex Reid, professor of digital rhetoric, Media & Artificial Intelligence 