Matt Dowell

Teacher of college writing. WPA. disc golfer. bass fisherman. T1D. disabled academic. I tweet about ableism and academic neoliberalism bc I am fun at parties.

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

Most colleges and universities are not proactively considering the needs of disabled and chronically ill faculty, staff, and students at this point in the pandemic and never ever will because they legally don’t have to until the people they should be considering out themselves.

[inefficient rhubarb snackowski @snackowska]

it's a bit disturbing how some liberal humanities trends of the past decade are compatible with pro-AI (i.e., pro-techlord) arguments

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

The hellscape.

[alex bronzini-vender @alexbronzini]

One extremely funny thing that happened this semester is that Harvard students cheated using their university-provided ChatGPT subscriptions, and were caught because the university had access to their accounts

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

I like engaging with my people on this app. I like randos who become my people. But, for the most part, comments from randos are one of the crap parts of this app.

[Jackie Seidel, PhD @JackieSeidel1]

This is how every classroom got a Smartboard that’s now out of date or doesn’t work anymore hahaha.

Understand that corporations see schools (and universities) as their MARKETPLACE. They will do ANYTHING to get their products in there with exclusive contracts.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

If this is a Claude enterprise subscription the university of Chicago is likely going to let 3000 members of faculty run up an insane token bill

[Paul Thomas @plthomasEdD]

If children not reading at grade level by grade 3 is a crisis, why aren’t children born into and still living in poverty by grade 3 also a crisis worthy of new policy?

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

Going where the water is.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation to Florida. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Some D.C. residents will now have to prove they are working or volunteering in order to qualify for assistance with groceries — a federally-imposed change that attorneys for the city’s poorest residents worry will increase hunger. https://t.co/yySaHHcUfz

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

Bill Watterson.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Since everyone is sharing their favourite American authors, who is the best American philosopher?

[V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams]

This junk is being pushed by trustees, and, because trustees are major donors, presidents probably feel obliged to them. But the first one who just flat out says no and loses their office because of it will be a legend in their own time.

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

Being an expert on things related to reading and writing or that involve reading and writing does not, in most cases, make someone an expert on reading and/or writing including the teaching of reading and/or writing.

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

What if I told you framing reading and writing as “skills” contributed to where we now found ourselves.

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

People tried to tell *you* only like 40 or 50 years ago.

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

What if I told you framing reading and writing as “skills” contributed to where we now found ourselves.

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

Glad you noticed.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

You aren’t principled, you’re obstinate. And you don’t know the difference.

[Sarah Osment @sm_osment]

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

@vjoshuaadams https://t.co/hMSL3ANI9a

Johnny can’t read is a generational phenomenon including with professors.

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

College campuses, well, minus the bosses who are, at least in the performance of their jobs, morally and ethically bankrupt. And the people looking to curry favor with their bosses with hopes of one day too being a morally and ethically corrupt boss!

[The Nation @thenation]

From the Vatican to college campuses, the backlash against artificial intelligence is rapidly growing.
https://t.co/cVUiHJqLcI

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

It will be interesting to see how many centrist liberals who are currently banging the drum about people made “illiterate” by AI also being voters end up championing whatever voting literacy test proposal centrists put forth in the name of saving democracy!

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

“For those who chose to use them,” which will be everyone once we eliminate those people who won’t use them.

[Sarah Osment @sm_osment]

hahahahahahahhahahahahahaha

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

And really all any of that bullshit results in is profit extraction from higher ed.

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

University “partnerships” w/ AI companies are peak “higher ed initiative” bc initiatives require “securing contracts,” “establishing centers,” “naming directors,” etc.

Not that any of these “leaders” would resist but resistance not an initiative bc no commodities to claim.

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

You can’t get your next boss job without doing something! How you gonna get that next boss job if you don’t do things, have commodified achievements, form corporate partnerships, build shit, harm people, do deals with the bad guys, etc.?