The conversation around banning ChatGPT in schools is like forcing students to use an abacus instead of a calculator and work by candlelight instead of benefiting from electricity. It seems to stem from a laziness to not want to update decades old methodologies... (thread) As a professor, I know how challenging it is to stay current and innovative. I also know some colleagues who refused to update their approaches during the pandemic to make classes more remote friendly.

I live surrounded by French farmers. I’m watching the impact of climate change first hand. Burnt crops, barren fields, drying rivers. Are people not paying attention? Water/food shortages are coming. It makes me want to scream when I see people’s shocked reaction to the recent extreme storms in Paris. What part of this is surprising? Scientists have literally been warning us for decades. It’s going to be exactly like this: wildly unpredictable and more extreme