Remi Kalir

@remikalir
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Author "Annotation" (MIT Press) | On Sabbatical, 2022-23 | Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver | #annotation
Websitehttps://remikalir.com/
Bookhttps://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539920/
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Remi KalirJan 26, 2024

50,341 words.

57 figures.

Six chapters.

I'll be sending the final manuscript of my second book—"Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice"—to my editor at MIT Press on Monday morning.

Remi KalirJan 10, 2024

Just checked my site stats, and it seems a whole bunch of people are reading my blog post where I got ChatGPT and Bard to hallucinate Hitler quotes.

So, for those who are curious: "Three AI Chatbots, Two Books, and One Weird Annotation Experiment."

https://remikalir.com/blog/three-ai-chatbots-two-books-and-one-weird-annotation-experiment/

Remi KalirDec 29, 2023

2023—a year of professional success and personal insight. Here’s my year in review, let me know how this resonates with your accomplishments!

January: more screaming toddler
February: pandemic year four
March: stepped on that Lego
April: where’s Spinosaurus?
May: Bourbon
June: wrote 37 words
July: Nando the Cat dissents
August: ohfuckwhynosummercamp
September: interstellar childcare costs
October: plunged toilet toy
November: Halloween candy breakfast
December: Bluey

Happy New Year!

Remi KalirDec 28, 2023

Over the past few years, I’ve enjoyed a new year-end tradition: Increasing my charitable giving by donating my book royalties. I’m fortunate to be in a position where I can donate my book royalties, and I’m humbled people have paid to read my words. Details on my blog:

https://remikalir.com/blog/donating-my-2023-book-royalties/

Donating My 2023 Book Royalties

Over the past few years, I’ve enjoyed a new year-end tradition: Increasing my charitable giving by donating my book royalties. This post is about celebrating and uplifting the good work of am…

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Show threadRemi KalirDec 12, 2023
Fumbling forward, with disease, and I cannot help but think about all the AI hype in education right now, and the many resources and guides and suggested advice for so-called thought leaders, yet the actual work of presence and mentorship remains quite messy.
Show threadRemi KalirDec 12, 2023
Just one among my 26 students, and yet... our exchange has been an embarrassing, dispiriting, and humbling reminder that many profs (including me!) and most students (including adult grad students!) still haven't really figured out what it means to live and learn alongside generative AI.
Remi KalirDec 12, 2023
All day--this Monday of the final week of my semester--I've been having a back-and-forth with a grad student who submitted their final paper copied, almost entirely and without finesse, from ChatGPT. How do I know? With a few simple prompts, I was able to recreate their paper paragraph-for-paragraph, including awkward phrases like "a dynamic landscape of opportunities and challenges." And this cribbed-with-ease-paper was submitted for a class about "Critical Digital Pedagogy," of all things!
Remi KalirOct 18, 2023
mastodon, bluesky, linkedin
Remi KalirSep 29, 2023

Bard, Claude, and ChatGPT "read" and then annotated Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice" and Adolf Hitler’s "Mein Kampf." How would these generative AI chatbots, as writing tools, compose original annotations to approximate readers’ sense-making?

Read my latest blog post: "Three AI Chatbots, Two Books, and One Weird Annotation Experiment."

https://remikalir.com/blog/three-ai-chatbots-two-books-and-one-weird-annotation-experiment/

#GenerativeAI #annotation

Three AI Chatbots, Two Books, and One Weird Annotation Experiment

Update: Pre-order my latest book Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice today. Bard, Claude, and ChatGPT walk into a bar. Start of a bad joke. Make it a library.…

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Remi KalirSep 19, 2023
I'm excited to share a new #openaccess publication co-authored with Justin Hodgson and Chris Andrews titled "Social annotation: Promising technologies and practices in writing." Our book chapter reviews prominent social annotation technologies, functional specifications, key products, and insights from research, with particular attention to the use of social annotation in #highereducation writing studies and composition. You can read it here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-36033-6_9
Social Annotation: Promising Technologies and Practices in Writing

The act of annotation is intimately associated with reading, thinking, writing, and learning. From book marginalia to online commentary, this centuries-old practice has flourished in contemporary educational contexts thanks to recent advances in digital technologies....

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