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Articles & Essays Reflection on Scripture Technology in Schools

Grammarly, AI Editors, ChatGPT, and the Pedagogical Perils of Writing with Confidence

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. In one of Grammarly’s ubiquitous advertisements, a hapless writer uses the popular AI-based editing software to improve an interpersonal communication. The furrowed brows accompanying the initial attempt (“we might be…

David I. SmithMay 31, 2023

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Articles & Essays Spiritual Development Technology in Schools

Here’s Your Assignment

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. During focus group research for the book Digital Life Together, two secondary school students offered the following reflections about what happens when their teachers assign reading tasks: we’ll ask ,…

David I. SmithMay 31, 2023

Articles & Essays Scholarship Technology in Schools Uncategorized

An Accidental Visual Reminder of Humility

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. I have an image pinned to the noticeboard by my desk that resulted from a moment of incompetence but seemed worth keeping in view. It was generated while working on…

David I. SmithMay 31, 2023

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Faith and Teaching Scholarship Spiritual Development

Motes, Beams, and Stories about Students

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. While browsing through some past Faith Animating Learning blog articles, I came across a helpful piece by Louis Markos on “Teaching in a Post-COVID world.” Part of the piece offers…

David I. SmithMay 31, 2023

Book Reviews Faith and Teaching Featured Spiritual Development

A Morning of Re-Reading Badly (And Perhaps Occasionally Well)

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. This morning a little space opened up in my schedule, and I have been re-reading a long-familiar book. The physical volume is old and worn. In fact, it was re-issued…

David I. SmithApril 11, 2022

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching Featured Language and Culture Learning Reflection on Scripture

Hearing, Speaking, Learning.

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. Some years ago, I was sitting in my campus office minding my own business when the phone rang. It turned out to be Matt, a student who had been in…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching Featured Reflection on Scripture Spiritual Development Voices from the Past

Learning to Pray

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced by permission. The way we pray says quite a lot about us. Our prayers and the way we form them project a story about what ought to be. When we draw upon…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching Featured Voices from the Past

A Tale of Two Transformations

This post appeared first on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. I was recently provoked to fresh reflection on two very familiar passages as I prepared to share them with education students. One is about schooling; the other is about being…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching Featured Resources Spiritual Development

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 3

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, it is reproduced by permission. This is the third in a series of reflections on student vocation. I began in February by dipping into Protestant theologies of vocation and noting that the Christian’s basic calling…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching Featured Resources Spiritual Development

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 2

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced by permission. In February I posted a piece in which I wondered how we think about our students’ vocations and how that might affect how we teach. I pointed to a common…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

David I. Smith

Grammarly, AI Editors, ChatGPT, and the Pedagogical Perils of Writing with Confidence

Here’s Your Assignment

An Accidental Visual Reminder of Humility

Motes, Beams, and Stories about Students

A Morning of Re-Reading Badly (And Perhaps Occasionally Well)

Hearing, Speaking, Learning.

Learning to Pray

A Tale of Two Transformations

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 3

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 2

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