Paul Allison and company are doing some evocative work with prompts, identities, and AI mentoring.  Paul has been writing prompts that would act as mentor identities.  Specifically, he is working on creating a prompt that will serve as a mentor for seniors in high school who are drafting admissions letters.  There is much to unpack…

Here is what you get with this post: two videos, some notes, one poem, and a chance to enter into my blog garden, my Switzerland of reiteration (i.e. annotate at will, ad hoc, and furious or slow). The first video is part of the inspiration for the post.  It is a video of our cosmos…

I have been reading Dan Russell’s blog “Search/ReSearch” and his newsletter this morning. Russell’s book, The Joy of Search, was my ur-text for developing a “research attitude” in my students at all ability levels.  The best.  Now he has started a new blog for writing a new book about…unintended consequences and how we might might…