Monday, February 16, 2026
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Quick Announcement
I'm finishing up a book manuscript that goes to the publisher tomorrow, so I've been a bit behind this past week on emails and staying on top of things. I apologize for the delay — I'll get caught up very soon.
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Keep Working Through the GEMS Intellectual Map
Continue working through the GEMS Intellectual Map. Get through as much of the entire content as you can this week. The further you get, the more you'll stay on track with the course. Just keep pushing ahead — this is what we're focused on right now.
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A Possible Objection: Human Agency and AI Writing
Today we're going to explore a possible objection to the way we've been doing writing in this class with AI. The objection goes something like this: what we need most is human agency and human control over our writing.
To dig into this, let's look at Isabella Calmet's post: "Algorithmic Mirror".
We'll discuss Isabella's post as a class and then do an in-class experiment with writing and human agency.