Cate Denial

Since the pandemic began, I’ve struggled to read. Part of the root of that has been my fractured focus and concentration, my brain so cognitively overloaded by processing the pandemic and all its attendant inequities that I’ve struggled to pay attention to one thing at a time. Some of the problem has also been time. Like almost everyone I know, my workload increased at the beginning of the pandemic and has not decreased in the intervening years. (Which is not…

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Winter term began on January 3 at Knox – coincidentally, the day I tested positive with my first Covid infection. My students have been diligently working asynchronously on a number of fronts since then, including reading several articles about generative A.I. After each article, students have filled out reflections in Google forms, reflections I had hoped would become the basis of a discussion once I returned to campus. But since I haven’t yet been able to do that, I wrote…

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