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Students saying “no” to using AI

by kris | Oct 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER

🧠 Meet the Students Who Are Saying No to AI The following article explores why some young people are choosing human learning over machine help. When ChatGPT appeared in 2022, it set off alarms in classrooms. Educators feared that students would use AI to write...

Semiotics: Signs Mediate Understanding: Basic Introduction

by andflywrite | Oct 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER

Understanding Media and technological abstraction in the age of AI involves understanding Semiotics, a field we rarely hear about, although it was foundational for McLuhan and others who study media. It so happens that one of the leading lights of the French New Wave,...

New Mexico nonprofit wins AARP Prize for tech access in rural communities

by andflywrite | Oct 13, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER

Aaron Casillas does a 501c3 NonProfit called Mycelia Foundation. Aaron Casillas initially moved from Connecticut to Las Cruces, New Mexico with intent to retire. But once there he couldn’t ignore the pervasive lack of interest connectivity and tech education. A year...

Plato and the transition to Text from Oral Traditions

by andflywrite | Oct 13, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER

From ChatGPT5: Plato’s concern was primarily with the transition to written language, and his resistance reveals one of the earliest recorded critiques of a new communication medium. What he sensed, and what Marshall McLuhan later expanded upon, was how a change in...