This is a lovely & thoughtful essay on the messiness of teaching and learning, an alchemy endangered by efficiency & automation. “What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.”
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On the messiness of in-person teaching. We see this in Carpentries workshops, too, the surprising misconceptions, the interplay between instructor and learner to even get to the question, never mind the answer.
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