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I Asked My Students To Write An Essay About Their Lives. The Reason 1 Student Began To Panic Left Me Stunned.

“It frightens me.”

I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.” It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

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If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking — and thinking is everything — things aren’t looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, I’m also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.

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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.

An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.

Hello, guys!

I don’t usually post things of this nature, so I’m sorry if I’m doing it incorrectly. I’d like to inform everyone that there’s a young man in Gaza by the name of Beesho AlGhazzawi.

He and his family, among many others, are trapped in the northern part of Gaza without basic necessities for survival, and are desperately trying to flee the war zone as quick as possible.

Here’s the gofundme link! You don’t have to donate anything if you don’t have the possibility to. But I think sharing is the least we can do.

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Donate to Help me support my family and children, organized by Bashar Beesho

My name is Beesho AlGhazzawi from Gaza, i am still living the war as a night… Bashar Beesho needs your support for Help me support my f

A morning of terror, a morning of death, a morning of betrayal.

Everything around us is burning — the tents are gone, the people were killed, burned alive inside them.

The bombing hasn’t stopped, the missiles never sleep, and safety has completely disappeared.

The only hospital in northern Gaza was bombed, with patients, doctors, and people seeking shelter still inside.

This is Gaza, living in the midst of a cruel world.

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Donate to Help Gaza Families Secure Essential Needs, organized by Ahmad W

Dear Esteemed Donors, My name is Ahmad , and I am a 14-year-old resident of Khan Yo… Ahmad W needs your support for Help Gaza Families Secu

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I hope you'll let me tell you a little bit about my home🇵🇸, Gaza🍉. It's a place where we're living through some very challenging times💔🥹. We're under attack from bombs, explosives, and warplanes, and we've had to endure many nights of sleeplessness. It's a difficult situation💔, but we're trying to stay positive🖤. This war has really taken a toll on us. It's destroyed our bodies, our lives, and our souls. It has been so sad to see our homes destroyed, our belongings taken from us, and our beautiful places ruined. It has also changed our situation for the worse. We were living a pretty good life, you know? Peaceful, loving, and full of life. But then, we found ourselves in a really tough spot. Hunger, fear, and terror have become our new normal. My kids and I, along with my extended family, are struggling to make ends meet. We don't have the basic necessities of life, and our living situation is pretty rough. We're in these old, falling-apart tents. It's so hard to know what to do when winter comes. We'll be soaked in the rain and wind, and I'll be at a loss as to how to keep my family safe, from the bombing and from the winter.🥹

I'm really hoping you can help me and my family to live through this awful war.💔

🥹❤️‍🩹https://gofund.me/ed6e9cb6🥹❤️‍🩹

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Shin is the type of guy who would spin around in his swivel chair, loose control after a few mins, and manages to fling himself out of his seat just from the sheer speed he was going

Also he looks like the type who would have vomited after 10 seconds being in the merry-go-round

AM DONE

Also this has definitely happened multiple times

Hello everyone, I have another campaign to share.

Muhammad, his wife, and their free children are fighting to survive in Ghazza. They've been displaced and are living without the most basic resources. Their youngest, Lara, doesn't have any milk to drink; their son Abboud has contracted hepatitis which they cannot treat.

This family's source of income was the children's clothing store that Muhammad ran, however it was destroyed in the bombings. They now have no way to earn money, no roof to sleep under, and no access to clean water or food.

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Donate to Help support Muhammad and his family in Khan Yunis, organized by Alexandra Beck

Hi, my name is Alex, and I'm raising funds on behalf of Muhammad in … Alexandra Beck needs your support for Help support Muhammad and his fa

In order to evacuate from Ghazza, rebuild their lives, and receive necessary medical care, they need to raise $40,000 CAD. As of writing, they've only raised $894 thus far.

Please help this family in any way that you can. Donate if you're able to donate, and share their campaign. Anything you can contribute will help them survive and rebuild.

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Have you heard of the theory of time loss?

Could the increasing feeling of time speeding up be due to actual changes in the structure of time itself, or is it merely a reflection of psychological and societal shifts since 2019? Some believe that time is no longer the same, as if we have lost our natural sense of its flow—could there be a scientific basis for this?

Please continue reading👇.

Today, February 12, 2025, the people of Gaza face yet another chapter of forced displacement. After months of suffering under bombardment and starvation, reports now speak of plans to expel us to Egypt and Jordan—an attempt to erase our presence from our own land. This is not just a news story; it is our reality.

Thank you my friend Zara, for the beautiful drawing 🥹❤️

Thanks to my friend Lee for the beautiful flowers 🌸🫂

I am Kareman Dohan, a mother to a young child. We lost our home and everything we owned because of the war. We survived the bombings, lost our loved ones, and now we are threatened with being uprooted from our land. We are not asking for the impossible—just the right to stay and rebuild our lives where we belong.

I have launched a GoFundMe campaign to help us stay and rebuild our home so we are not forced to leave. Your support, no matter how small, sends a message that we are not alone and that we will not be erased.

You can contribute here: 👇

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Donate to Save Kareman Dohan's Family from Despair, organized by Zenzi Zeme

I’m Zenzi and have made this GoFundMe for my friend in Palestine and her family. H… Zenzi Zeme needs your support for Save Kareman Dohan's F

Or through PayPal

Thank you for your support and solidarity. You are the hope we hold onto in these difficult times.

Hello👋Helping Hani's family and Wassim's family to survive 🙏🍉 Hani's family consists of 5 members, his wife and three children. The occupation destroyed our beautiful home and our source of livelihood. We have been living homeless and I have been seriously injured in my feet since March 7, 2023 until this moment, and I have not been treated. I live on painkillers only, and I need an artificial joint. And the second family, which is the Wassim family consisting of 7 members, I am a university student and I did not finish my education because of the war on Gaza, my dream was to be an engineer, but my university was destroyed, I am in charge About my family because my father suffers from a lot of envelopes in his back and my brother needs an urgent eye operation,

we live in a tent that has become torn since the beginning of the war on Gaza We have been displaced repeatedly to different places in Gaza to find safety We both families suffer from food shortages due to the closure of the crossings Food and medicine have become expensive

We need your help and donations, your donation helps the two families and other families to survive Thank you everyone who participates and contributes to our campaign🇵🇸🍉

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Help, Hani's family and Wassim's family from Gaza to survive

Hello to all, my name is Mohamed, and I'm doing this to help to raise funds for two families from Gaza City to survive from this global situ

✅ Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #99 ) ✅

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