Kyle Stedman (@kstedman.bsky.social) from Rockford University reads the bad idea “AI-Generated Reading Summaries Are Enough” by Christopher Eaton from University of Toronto Mississauga.

It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, a 2026 open-access book edited by Christopher Basgier, Anna Mills, Mandy Olejnik, Miranda Rodak, & Shyam Sharma.

Find the full text of this chapter, with all the references, at https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/bad/chapter8.pdf.

Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the beginning of the chapter’s title; the point the author wants to actually make is stated in its subtitle: "AI Tools Can Rhetorically Support but not Replace Reading."

The theme music is "Flicker" by nctrnm. The book is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; the text is used here by permission. The full book was published by the WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado; find it online for free at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/bad/.

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Kyle Stedman (@kstedman.bsky.social) from Rockford University reads the bad idea “AI Use is a Natural Skillset” by Lisa Bell from Utah Valley University and Joni K. Hayward Marcum from James Madison University.

It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, a 2026 open-access book edited by Christopher Basgier, Anna Mills, Mandy Olejnik, Miranda Rodak, & Shyam Sharma.

Find the full text of this chapter, with all the references, at https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/bad/chapter7.pdf.

Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the beginning of the chapter’s title; the point the author wants to actually make is stated in its subtitle: "AI is a Learned Literacy."

The theme music is "Flicker" by nctrnm. The book is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; the text is used here by permission. The full book was published by the WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado; find it online for free at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/bad/.

No AI tools were used to support the making of this podcast.

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman.bsky.social) from Rockford University reads the bad idea “AI Can 'Do It All!'” by Charles N. Lesh from Auburn University. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, a 2026 open-access book edited by Christopher Basgier, Anna Mills, Mandy Olejnik, Miranda Rodak, & Shyam Sharma.

Find the full text of this chapter, with all the references, at https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/bad/chapter6.pdf.

Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the beginning of the chapter’s title; the point the author wants to actually make is stated in its subtitle: "We Have Work to Do, Together."

The theme music is "Flicker" by nctrnm. The book is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; the text is used here by permission. The full book was published by the WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado; find it online for free at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/bad/.

No AI tools were used to support the making of this podcast.

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman.bsky.social) from Rockford University reads the bad idea “AI is Completely Unlike Any Other Writing Software ” by Matthew D. Bryan from the University of Central Florida. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, a 2026 open-access book edited by Christopher Basgier, Anna Mills, Mandy Olejnik, Miranda Rodak, & Shyam Sharma.

Find the full text of this chapter, with all the references, at https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/bad/chapter5.pdf.

Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the beginning of the chapter’s title; the point the author wants to actually make is stated in its subtitle: "AI Is Strange and Rhetorical Just Like Other Writing Software."

The theme music is "Flicker" by nctrnm. The book is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; the text is used here by permission. The full book was published by the WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado; find it online for free at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/bad/.

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Tyler Easterbrook from the University of Idaho reads the bad idea “AI Is Revolutionary." It's a chapter he wrote that was first published in Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, a 2026 open-access book edited by Christopher Basgier, Anna Mills, Mandy Olejnik, Miranda Rodak, & Shyam Sharma.

Find the full text of this chapter, with all the references, at https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/bad/chapter4.pdf.

Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the beginning of the chapter’s title; the point the author wants to actually make is stated in its subtitle: "AI Is Conventional."

The theme music is "Flicker" by nctrnm. The book is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; the text is used here by permission. The full book was published by the WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado; find it online for free at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/bad/.

No AI tools were used to support the making of this podcast.

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman.bsky.social) from Rockford University reads the bad idea “Generative AI Tools Are Color-Blind” by Aamir Zulfiqar & Sue Hum from The University of Texas at San Antonio. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, a 2026 open-access book edited by Christopher Basgier, Anna Mills, Mandy Olejnik, Miranda Rodak, & Shyam Sharma.

Find the full text of this chapter, with all the references, at https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/bad/chapter3.pdf.

Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the beginning of the chapter’s title; the point the author wants to actually make is stated in its subtitle: "Counterstorytelling Can Help Generative AI Tools Address Their Embedded Cultural Biases."

The theme music is "Flicker" by nctrnm. The book is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; the text is used here by permission. The full book was published by the WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado; find it online for free at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/bad/.

No AI tools were used to support the making of this podcast.

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman.bsky.social) from Rockford University reads the bad idea “AI Knows Everything” by Shyam Sharma from Stony Brook University. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, a 2026 open-access book edited by Christopher Basgier, Anna Mills, Mandy Olejnik, Miranda Rodak, & Shyam Sharma.

Find the full text of this chapter, with all the references, at https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/bad/chapter2.pdf.

Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the beginning of the chapter’s title; the point the author wants to actually make is stated in its subtitle: "AI Can Perpetuate Ignorance, Prejudices, and Epistemic-Rhetorical Harms Globally."

The theme music is "Flicker" by nctrnm. The book is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; the text is used here by permission. The full book was published by the WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado; find it online for free at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/bad/.

No AI tools were used to support the making of this podcast.

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman.bsky.social) from Rockford University reads the bad idea “Generative AI Will Make Knowledge Work Easier, More Productive, and Faster” by Paul Cook from Indiana University Kokomo. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, a 2026 open-access book edited by Christopher Basgier, Anna Mills, Mandy Olejnik, Miranda Rodak, & Shyam Sharma.

Find the full text of this chapter, with all the references, at https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/bad/chapter1.pdf (PDF).

Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the beginning of the chapter’s title; the point the author wants to actually make is stated in its subtitle: "Critically Examine Generative AI from Economic and Cultural Frameworks."

The theme music is "Flicker" by nctrnm. The book is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; the text is used here by permission. The full book was published by the WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado; find it online for free at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/bad/.

No AI tools were used to support the making of this podcast.