Nigel "Teacher" Caplan

The goals of so-called “AI” products and the massive tech corps that power them aren’t exactly subtle. I just can’t imagine the act of willful self-delusion it takes to believe that it’...

https://nigelcaplan.com/2024/03/01/today-in-ai-exploitation/

Last week, I published an editorial in TESOL Connections where I tried to inject some realism into the hype over so-called “generative AI” in language education. Many professional association...

https://nigelcaplan.com/2024/02/25/the-big-ai-lie-never-mind-the-quality-feel-the-width/

Here’s my op-ed column in February’s TESOL Connections, where I argue that: What distinguishes our field is the human connection, something which AI technology can only supplant, not suppleme...

https://nigelcaplan.com/2024/02/15/resisting-ai-and-refocusing-on-the-human/

One of the mitigations against the infiltration of synthetically-generated (“AI”) content is watermarking: the idea that text, images, video, and other content created with/by large-language ...

https://nigelcaplan.com/2023/10/17/certified-human-the-new-organic/

Technology corporations and their boosters are trying to shape perceptions of their products using obfuscating language. Unfortunately, this is getting picked up in causal use and especially in t...

https://nigelcaplan.com/2023/09/27/words-matter-an-ai-primer/

* and all automated text generators or “help me write”/”magic” pop-ups I live in Delaware not under a rock, so I’ve been trying to find a way to explain to my students that yes, I know ...

https://nigelcaplan.com/2023/06/17/dear-student-make-the-right-choice-and-keep-away-from-chatgpt/

These are the questions I'm asking myself, and which I'd like other educators, instructional designers, AI enthusiasts, and ed-tech promoters to ask

https://nigelcaplan.com/2023/05/30/questions-to-ask-before-using-ai-in-education/

Three pieces this week to counter the dangerous, headlong, blindfolded rush into accepting commercial generative AI products as if they were inevitable (they’re not): Just because a technology ...

https://nigelcaplan.com/2023/05/20/previously-on-resisting-generative-ai/

OK, it’s not a movie, but it is a webinar introducing Genre Explained: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers About Genre-Based Instruction, by Chris Tardy, Ann Johns, and me, published this ye...

https://nigelcaplan.com/2023/05/05/genre-explained-the-movie/

Between all the hype and doom-mongering over AI text generators (ChatGPT and their ilk), there is a blunt reality: these products and the profit-seeking corporations that market them are not our ...

https://nigelcaplan.com/2023/04/30/why-im-not-excited-by-or-even-using-generative-ai/