John Warner

2 months ago | englishteacherweekly.substack.com | Andrew Campbell |Phil Christman |John Warner |Peter Biles

Welcome to English Teacher Weekly—your source for what’s worthwhile from the worlds of literature, education, Christian thought, and the humanities. Happy Valentine’s Day! This week’s edition is my valentine to you. Thanks for being a part of this project. There’s a 30% subscriber discount for the next few weeks for those of you that would like to contribute to ETW. I’m deeply appreciative of your support. Thanks!Also, here is your call for reader submissions.

2 months ago | adamm0rgan.substack.com | Adam Morgan |John Warner

The explosion of ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and other consumer AI tools has impacted just about every profession on Earth — but perhaps none more so than writers. Tech companies, C-suites, publishers, and writing students around the world have become obsessed with the idea that software can do all your writing for you — an idea that’s already disrupted everything from web publishing to college classrooms.

Dec 3, 2024 | educationnext.org | John Bailey |John Warner

In Salman Khan’s new book, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing) (Viking, 2024), the Khan Academy founder predicts that AI will transform education by providing every student with a virtual personalized tutor at an affordable cost. Is Khan right? Is radically improved achievement for all students within reach at last? If so, what sorts of changes should we expect to see, and when? If not, what will hold back the AI revolution that Khan foresees?

Oct 27, 2024 | biblioracle.substack.com | John Warner |Dave Karpf |Parker Molloy |Perry Bacon

So…the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post have decided not to publish a candidate endorsement for this year’s presidential election. The choice was made by the papers’ respective billionaire owners, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who made his fortune in biomedical devices, and some guy named Jeff Bezos.

Oct 17, 2024 | engagededucation.substack.com | John Warner

I think we have enough evidence to call it: the explicit orientation around the purpose of school being to make students “college and career ready” has failed. Writing at Forbes, sifts through the ashes of the movement pursued through the various stages of contemporary education reform, NCLB, Common Core, Race to the Top, and so on and so on.