{"id":10008,"date":"2025-06-21T09:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=10008"},"modified":"2025-06-21T09:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:24:30","slug":"teaching-in-the-age-of-ai-phantom-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2025\/06\/teaching-in-the-age-of-ai-phantom-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching in the age of AI -Phantom readings"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, partially because other people<\/a> are talking about it, and partly because I need to figure out how to deal with AI for next semester. Specifically, I am teaching HIST 295 Introduction to Historical Studies. This is the methods class where we teach Sophomore majors how to be historians. Also, since most of them will be teachers, I suppose they need to start thinking about teaching in the age of AI. I am also teaching 2 sections of an on-line asynchronous HIST 198 Explorations in Global History: The 20th Century World.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

So, for 198 I figured I would do a week on the Jazz age in Japan. I could have dug through a bunch of anthologies trying to find a short story for them to read. Instead, I asked Chat GPT.<\/p>\n

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What would be a good short story already available in translation to assign to a lower division college class on the topic of the jazz age in Japan?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A great short story to assign for a lower-division college class on the Jazz Age in Japan is:<\/p>\n

“The Lady and the Beard” (\u9aed\u306e\u3042\u308b\u4ee4\u5b22, 1921) by Tanizaki Jun\u2019ichir\u014d<\/strong>, available in translation in the collection Naomi and Other Stories<\/em>, translated by Anthony H. Chambers.<\/p>\n

Why it works:<\/h3>\n