12. Short-circuiting AI with Practice

In a recent episode, I covered how using AI can sometimes take the focus away from a learning task and thus short-circuit learning. In this episode, I follow up with the Elon Statement on Writing Transfer and its second "enabling practice": practice itself. Ample varied practice with a given skill can, over time, strengthen memory and aid learning transfer. Providing students with a variety of practice opportunities for every skill we bring into the classroom is an important (and, I would argue, fun) way to engage students and help them develop expertise in writing. In this episode, I compare teaching and learning to exercise--in both cases, we can only benefit if we do it! I even include a brief clip of myself exercising. Join me to discuss one of my favorite aspects of teaching and watch me break a sweat in the process!