Thank you for your kind words, Jim.  As you can appreciate, it takes more time than ever before to foster a love of learning through developing critical thinking skills in reading and by physically holding a book, not a phone.  Read, reflect, and respond are the buzzwords to getting them to be effective thinkers, readers, and writers.

I think I have scared my students enough when I have said that the more they cede to AI, the more it writes like them, and the inevitable end is why are they needed for a job when AI can easily do it at no cost of salary, health, and retirement benefits?

Especially when I add that my engineering dad told me back in the mid-1960s when computers were coming on the scene, “Look alive, kid . . . you could be replaced by a button.”

John

> On Feb 12, 2025, at 1:10 AM, Jim O'Connor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks so much for your work.  I remember my days 1973-4-5 trying to deal
> with student papers obviously stolen and when I spent the time to
> show/prove thefts there was no reward, just time lost in the pursuit for
> tenure.