These two weeks I have spent much of my time reading through just over 600,000 words of student writing. Every June, exam marking time, I do this. I have seen very little AI in these essays… except for one 'unfortunate' student, whose AI use was revealed by the fact that they quoted my own writing back at me but attributed it to a fictitious source the AI had hallucinated! There has been a lot said about students using AI, but today I wanted to write about MY use of AI as a l

When I was 11 I stopped speaking. I did not know it at the time, but what happened to me is known as selective mutism. Because it only happened at school, my darling immigrant parents probably didn't even know it was happening. People would just say I was "shy." There is no shyness in the inability to make a sound. We had immigrated to the USA when I was 11. That upheaval, a new country, a new language, a new everything, is what caused the mutism. A wise school counsellor, a

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