Coming up on Wednesday here at MIT -- 5pm in Stata, room 155:
"Refusing Generative AI: A Critique of Rhetorical Commonplaces about 'AI' in Education"
Professors Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Megan McIntyre, and Maggie Fernandes will address stock arguments in support of generative AI adoption in the classroom. They'll then offer some practical teaching strategies for negotiating some of the challenges that generative AI poses for education, particularly writing education.
https://cmsw.mit.edu/event/refusing-generative-ai-rhetorical-commonplaces-about-ai-in-education/
It's just about time for the Karmel Writing Prizes Reception! Celebrate the best of MIT student writing...across 20 categories with $ prizes!
Be sure to RSVP: https://cmsw.mit.edu/event/karmel-writing-prizes-reception
It's next Wednesday May 7 at 4:30 pm. Building 14, The Nexus (14S-130)
“It’s an amazing opportunity to work through the data and write in a really vibrant setting where conversation and cross-disciplinary engagement is at the heart of the experience.”
CMS/W Professor T.L. Taylor (@ybikapix ) is working on a new book that examines theme parks as sitting at the analytically rich intersection of design, infrastructure, and play: https://news.mit.edu/2026/tl-taylor-named-casbs-fellow-0421
Coming up on May 6 here at MIT:
"Refusing Generative AI: A Critique of Rhetorical Commonplaces about 'AI' in Education"
Professors Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Megan McIntyre, and Maggie Fernandes will address stock arguments in support of generative AI adoption in the classroom. They'll then offer some practical teaching strategies for negotiating some of the challenges that generative AI poses for education, particularly writing education.
https://cmsw.mit.edu/event/refusing-generative-ai-rhetorical-commonplaces-about-ai-in-education/
Couldn't join us in person last week for the "MIT in 3:00" video competition screening? Not to worry -- the finalist videos are now all posted!
Kudos to Shreeya Parekh, whose "A Love Letter to My MIT" won this year's Audience Award, and to John Xu and Sofie Howard, whose "ALT + F4" took home the Jury/Chris Pomiecko Award.
This year our grad program in Science Writing students are collaborating with the Associated Press (@apnews ).
They developed and pitched local climate stories, and then over a four-day intensive weekend, they worked with visual journalists from the AP.
Read all about it at cmsw.mit.edu.
“What made the biggest difference for me was being in the field alongside an experienced photojournalist and seeing how they read a scene in practice,” Ana Georgescu, GPSW ‘26, said. “We were able to get immediate feedback on how we directed subjects, which scenes we chose, and how we integrated photography into the reporting process. That kind of hands-on, in-the-moment experience was incredibly helpful, and it’s made me really excited to keep exploring climate stories as well as the visual side of journalism.”
(AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
With MIT in 3:00 submissions now closed, we get to look forward to the screening! It's coming up fast, next Thursday April 16 in The Nexus (14S-130).
It starts with a reception at 5:30pm, then screenings beginning at 6pm. The Jury Prize ($1,000) and Audience Prize ($500) will be awarded at the end!
"Poetry is the most intense and musical form of language."
U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze last week returned to MIT for an "unconventional reading" that traced what it was like to write his first poems here, interspersed with later poems.
He reminded the packed room in Hayden Library how poetry can sharpen attention and expand what we notice in the world.
Today's the deadline!
Submit your short film to the annual MIT in 3:00 contest.
What’s your MIT? And can you show it in 3 minutes?
What’s your specific perspective? What’s a cool activity, project, or spot that hardly anyone knows about? We want you to show us. And it's your chance to win the $1,000 jury prize or $500 audience prize!
Reminder, we're thrilled to co-host U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze tomorrow evening (Wednesday, doors at 5:30, Building 14S, room 130) for a reading and book signing. Please join us!
Sze -- author of twelve books of poetry -- is also an editor and translator.
The event is presented by us at CMS/W, via our William Corbett Poetry Series, along with @litatmit and the @mitpressbookstore . Enormous thanks to lecturer @chloegarciaroberts for organizing.
Deadline April 6!
What’s your MIT? And can you show it in 3 minutes?
Submit your short film to the annual MIT in 3:00 contest.
It's your chance to win the $1,000 jury prize or $500 audience prize!
What’s your specific perspective? What’s a cool activity, project, or spot that hardly anyone knows about? We want you to show us!
In two weeks, on Wednesday April 1 at 6pm, with @litatmit and the @mitpressbookstore , we and our William Corbett Poetry Series will be hosting U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze.
That'll be in Building 14, in Hayden Library's Nexus.
Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor, and in 2025 he was named the 25th Poet Laureate of the United States.
He is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Into the Hush (2025) and The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems (2025); The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (2021); Sight Lines (2019), for which he won the National Book Award; Compass Rose (2014); The Ginkgo Light (2009); Quipu (2005); The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970–1998 (1998); and Archipelago (1995). He also authored Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, 2026), The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry (2024), and edited Chinese Writers on Writing (2010). His poetry has been translated into fifteen languages, including Chinese, Dutch, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
