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A Better Way to Teach Writing in the Age of AI
Process-Based Checkpoints That Work Let’s be honest: the writing landscape has changed. AI tools like ChatGPT aren’t just looming on the horizon—they’re already in your students’ browsers. And while some educators are still scrambling for the perfect AI detector (spoiler: it doesn’t exist), others are asking a better question: How do we teach writing in a world where students can outsource the…
Digital Witch Hunts: Academic Dishonesty with AI
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing education, but not always for the better. One of the most troubling developments is the reliance on AI detection tools to assess whether students have used AI to complete their assignments. The problem? These tools are often wildly inaccurate, inconsistent, and, ironically, create the very environment they seek to prevent—one where students and…
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Fisher's War | Chapter 5: The Crimson Dragon
Day 4 | Friday, April 21, 2034 | Baton Rouge, LA I was running later than I wanted, but I had to pedal my old bike the back way to the Crimson Dragon Chinese Restaurant. We picked up take out from here numerous times—and I remember Grandad treating me to the buffet here a few times when he picked me up early from school. I never made the connection that John Chiao’s family owned it. I ran into…
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Fisher's War | Chapter 4: Emergence
Day 3 | Thursday, April 20, 2034 | Baton Rouge, LA I spent the rest of Wednesday in front of the television as my phone was either in a pool of blood or in evidence for the murder of a police officer, my laptop still in my booksack in my car. I had contacted my mother with the AI Assistant to let her know what was happening and that I was safe. I talked for a little while with the investigator…
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Fisher's War | Chapter 3: The Gun
Day 2 | Wednesday, April 19, 2034 | Baton Rouge, LA I woke up sweating, unsure of what time it was. Toby had fallen asleep on my shoulder, Jessica rested her head on his lap. I checked my phone: just after midnight. The battery was low—I blamed planned obsolescence. My phone glowed with seven unread texts from my worried mother. She told me more nukes had gone off since I’d fallen asleep. Seoul…
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Fisher's War | Chapter 2: The Fire Spreads
Day 1 (Part II) | Tuesday, April 18, 2034 | Baton Rouge, LA Coach Kirk left us standing stupidly in the locker room, asking each other whether or not we could really just leave school. That was when Garret Singer, captain of the football team, clean cut, well-liked, maybe a little dense, but someone with a good heart and a strong arm, called us together. He looked comfortable in the center of…
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Fisher's War (Chapter 1)
This is a work in progress that I want to share here. Foreword Dad died when I was thirteen; that was when I started journaling. I never really considered it to be a skill that’d be useful, but when the nukes launched and the aliens came, I started writing down everything I could. If humanity survived, we’d need a record of what happened. I put everything on paper just in case the EMPs fried…
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About Antiphon: Fire and Stone
Antiphon: Fire and Stone is a fantasy novel I recently published. I’m quickly learning that writing the story was the fun part. Promoting it has been much less fun. Nevertheless, it’s a work that I’m proud of. Recently updated cover art for Antiphon: Fire and Stone featuring Kord Maratha It is set in the world of Irden, a world in a state of transition. While medieval fantasy is still…
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An Introduction to Highland Swordsmanship
During the 18th Century, the Highland Scot came into vogue in Great Britain. After years of repression and persecution of the Scottish Gael, it was ironically the Highland Regiments of the British Army that preserved many of the proud Gaelic martial...
Background I’ve been teaching at the high school level online since 2015 (you know, before COVID made it vogue to do so). But I’d had a taste of it as a student since 2010 with the Cateran Society, where I began learning Highland Broadsword. It involved reading primary and secondary sources on Highland Broadsword fencing, videoing myself and fencing partners performing these, sending them to…
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Wrenhaven Webcomic #3
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Ceding an Arsenal to Your Ideological Opponents: ChatGPT
Here I introduce an argument that tools like ChatGPT should not be eschewed by conservatives under the argument that it is a "Leftist propaganda tool."
I’ve been a big proponent of AI-language generation tools like ChatGPT and AI-art generation tools like PhotoLeap. I find myself often at odds with fellow English teachers, authors, and artists in this. They argue that these tools can undermine the creativity, nuance, and originality that are essential to artistic and literary expression. I likewise find myself discussing ChatGPT with more…
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Wrenhaven Webcomic #2
Episode #2 of Wrenhaven has hit!
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When You’re the Villain in Your Story
Here, we analyze why normal people go bad and question what would make us go very bad...
I came across a painting someone shared on Facebook that seemed to purposely lacked context and was posted with a bit of cheek. I recognized it, though it took me a second to place it. It was one of one of Adolf Hitler’s paintings—which sent me on a bit of a thought train… It’s long been considered how different the world would be had Hitler just been accepted into art school instead of being…
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When Cultural Appropriation is Good for Civilization
A look into cultural appropriation that attempts to temper the negative into a historical perspective.
Cultural appropriation has become a buzzword in recent years, with some claiming that it is a form of oppression that should be eliminated from society. Many people view cultural appropriation as a societal ill because it involves the adoption and exploitation of elements of a culture by members of a dominant culture without regard for the original culture’s values, traditions, and history. This…
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Quinta Columna Calvinista #2: "I Saw Satan Laughing With Delight"
I consider some ideas of technological advancement from a religious perspective.
I woke up early the other morning as my son woke me and told me that he threw up. After doing the dad things, I found myself wide awake at 4:30am and started mindlessly cruising the reels on different social media platforms. One thing I noticed was such an overwhelming level of information—much of it conflicting. I wondered then, how in such a sea of information could one in search of truth in…
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An excerpt from the my work-in-progress on Teaching Writing with ChatGPT:
The development of ChatGPT marks a significant milestone in the history of information and communication technologies. Much like the invention of the printing press revolutionized the dissemination of knowledge and information in the 15th century, ChatGPT represents a new frontier in the field of natural language processing. Just as the typewriter and word processor transformed the way in which…
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Wrenhaven Webcomic #1
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