Anna Mills
Writer, community college writing teacher, obsessed with AI in education, #OER advocate, author of HowArgumentsWork.org.
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- So sorry to hear this! We need most investigative tech reporting these days, not less!
- After 8 years writing the tech column @washingtonpost.com, I am among folks who were laid off today. I’m grateful for the stories I got to tell and the impact we made on privacy, sustainability & AI. You can keep following my work on my new (free) Substack geoffreyafowler.substack.com
- Reposted by Anna MillsSign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
- On asking AI and ed tech companies to help stop bots from passing as students: "Educators...from AI skeptics to enthusiasts—recognized that letting these agents loose in learning environments posed an unnecessary threat to academic integrity." news.mla.hcommons.org/2026/01/30/e... 1/3
- Reposted by Anna MillsIn the new MLA Newsletter, @annamillsoer.bsky.social and @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social, members of the committee that drafted the MLA Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents, reflect on the importance of the statement and how to put it into action. news.mla.hcommons.org/2026/01/30/e...
- I was gifted a shirt that I thought read "The garden is calling and I must go," until my kid pointed out that it says "I must ga." We're guessing that was AI + lack of oversight rather than a typo. Finding flaws in what looks like it's done is just never what we want to be doing...
- Someone turned in a "raft daft" today. Ridiculous life raft, that's not a bad metaphor for what we're building in the drafting process.
- Reposted by Anna MillsIt never fails to surprise me how many scientists seem to believe actually reading to "find relevant research," and writing, are not thinking, are not essential to the grandiose goals they have of "doing science." arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/n...
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- Google AI overviews to be powered by Gemini 3 now. This will be good for accuracy and usefulness and bad for cultivating skepticism of AI outputs. Really dumb and wrong Google AI Overviews were a huge education to the public... my teen included.
- I appreciate the call to action in Dr. Aviva Legatt's most recent Forbes column: 90% Of Faculty Say AI Is Weakening Student Learning: How Higher Ed Can Reverse It Glad I got to talk with her and make my case for securing some assessment. www.forbes.com/sites/avival...
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