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Another English Teacher Gives Their Opinion on ChatGPT and By Doing So Answers This Question: Will Artificial Intelligence Make Writing as Easy as Using a Stapler?

Posted on December 11, 2022February 2, 2023 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

The Answer to the Title by Both Me, the Human Author, and ChatGPT First of all: No. It won’t. It even admitted as much to me: The Trickery of Reading What You Thought Was a Student But Is Actually a Robot Is ChatGPT’s answer a definitive one? Probably not. But it’s a good one. One…

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ELA Is a Design Class

Posted on October 4, 2022October 4, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

In a past post, I wrote about how English Language Arts class is a technology class. This post will cover how English Language Arts class is a design class. Internet Trickery One day, I was scrolling through Twitter thinking I was doing everything that the app did not want me to do. I’m a millennial,…

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The Magnetic Strip

Posted on September 13, 2022September 14, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

A Teacher’s Non-American School Experience “No logos or anything like that,” said my mom. She had just explained to me that we needed to take a bunch of precautions for our “vacation.” These precautions seemed more like we were becoming refugees rather than tourists. We were not to wear anything that would pin us as…

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ELA Is a Tech Class

Posted on April 10, 2022April 12, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

A Technology I am the teacher of a technology class; I am an unacknowledged STEM teacher; I am an English Language Arts teacher. This is a cute way to start an essay, but, seriously, the “Arts” part does a good job of camouflaging the core of ELA. And that core is learning how to use…

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Semester of Slow

Posted on March 13, 2022March 13, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

Virtual Tools, Real Classroom When you are stressed, practicality is a religion. At the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year, after we went totally virtual when the pandemic hit in March 2020, I was a bit unsettled. We were all starting to live with the virus. Still, the memory of full-on pandemic anxiety–memories like studiously…

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A Modest Seat in the Classroom

Posted on March 6, 2022March 7, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

Age and the “New Tech” Fallacy Fourteen years ago, when I was a student-teacher and still using a personal computer hijacked to run Linux instead of Windows, I did a lot of campaigning for Google Docs. This was wasted effort: Google conquers better than its creators. When I was officially hired as a licensed teacher,…

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Pushed Up a Mountain

Posted on February 6, 2022February 6, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

I. My Brazilian friend had never seen snow. I couldn’t fathom such a perspective, watching him gawk out the window of the bus that was driving us from the airport to a hotel in Switzerland. We all lived in England, attending the same American school, though many of us were not American. It was February,…

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Tybee Tides

Posted on January 24, 2022January 25, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

Floating Specks Large swells of water bobbed the boat as it made its way out into brackish water of Tybee Creek. The Atlantic horizon before them was interrupted by one last mass of land that was their destination–Tybee Island proper, with its popular shops and beach. Lisa and Greg Smith normally wouldn’t have gone out…

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The Neighborhood Anarchists

Posted on January 17, 2022January 25, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

I. No one needs to ask the origin of my neighborhood’s name: Deer Park. Deer walk the streets of Deer Park, Ohio, like humans have yet to take over. They are the living ghosts of nature, sleeping in front yards, staring at you with a tense readiness when you walk past. The penance the deer…

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Solid Things

Posted on January 9, 2022January 25, 2022 by Thomas Joseph Wilson

When the Paperless Movement was in full force, I was fatalistic. Going totally digital was inevitable. And like anyone who needs to prepare for a new world, I started readying my supplies, or, in this case, getting rid of them. As we now know, the Paperless Movement didn’t quite take. Though cardboard boxes are the…

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