Web Excursions 2023-02-20
Writing Essays With AI: A Guide
If you read histories of typewriters, you’ll find that each one of these concerns—
too impersonal, not private, too much like corporate marketing, too expensive, too much hype and not enough use cases—
were brought up by people encountering them for the first time.
In The Wonderful Writing Machine, a 1954 history of the typewriter, Bruce Bliven writes that
when these machines were first introduced, “one real difficulty…was the public’s feeling that typewriting, for private correspondence, was insulting, or confusing, or both.”
AI is a little like a mirror: it will reflect exactly what you put into it.
Get your thoughts down when you want to
I have the AI transcribe the recording and summarize it into bullet points.
When I get home, I paste the transcript into ChatGPT and ask it to summarize the document into bullet points
That is a transcript of a writer walking and talking about ideas they have that might turn into pieces of writing. Please summarize ideas they had in bullet point form. Please don't include ideas that don't make grammatical sense or might have been mistranscribed. If there is anything like that please include it in a separate section labeled: Scratch.
Organize your thoughts before you get started on a piece
When you’re staring at a long document of ideas with no idea how to find a through-line or identify the argument you want to make, AI can help.
Here are some notes for a piece I'm working on. Can you help me reorganize them into an outline?
Capture a voice when you want the flavor of a particular writer
You can fine-tune GPT-3 on your voice or the voice of another writer you admire, and use it to help you get the flavor of their words into your work.
A fine-tuned version of GPT-3 will output sentences that are not exactly the sentences your hero would write, but they’re close enough to give you an idea of what you might want to go for.
Summarize complex ideas when you’re trying to explain
Can you summarize utilitarianism in a few sentences?
Help you when you get stuck
Evaluate your writing when you need a fresh brain
this is the opening to my article, if you had to find something to criticize about it what would it be? please tell me anything you find that's boring, shallow, or incorrect. then please describe it using 5 adjectives
衡水中学,一个屠龙少年终成恶龙的故事
经过数据梳理和专家访谈,我们发现:
超级中学的神话不止建立在严格管理,更建立在通过非常规手段,对优秀生源跨区域“掐尖”之上。
而在被超级中学抽空的县级中学,更多出身普通的农村子弟在高考的竞技场上从一开始就输了。
衡水中学的故事,其实是个屠龙武士终成恶龙的故事。
21世纪教育研究院名誉理事长,国家教育咨询委员会委员杨东平在多年前的评论文章里,把重点中学称为高分学生的“收割机”,优秀师资的“抽血机”。
这种“抽血”表面上出现在城乡、重点和非重点之间,其实质则是依托权力,从上到下的层层汲取。
在这个权力体系中,省会中学可以坐拥全省的优秀学生;
地级市损失了一部分尖子生,只能加大向下“抽血”的力度;
县中更惨,只能在县内“抽血”,由于身处下层,向下抽血也很难弥补损失,只能通过加强管理,向学校内部施压来维持成绩
而早90年代初期,衡水中学,作为一个坐落在县城的中学,曾是位于这套体制下端的被剥削者。
在这种背景下,1992年,决定了衡水中学,乃至中国今天的“超级中学”生态的一位校长——37岁的李金池来到了衡水中学。
三年之后,衡水中学高考升学率便提升3倍,跃居全市11所县重点中学首位。
2002年,衡水中学升学率达到创纪录的98%。
作为少数有全国性影响的地方中学,衡水中学无疑成了地方中学对抗省会强校的标杆。
尽管管理模式一直饱受批评,但十多年前,对抗省会强校并逐渐取得胜利时,衡水中学在主流媒体上经常以正面形象出现,几乎是一个寒门子弟勤奋刻苦终获承认的完美的应试教育范本,代表着“庶民的胜利”
根据2012年《南方周末》的报道,衡水中学原来的招生范围仅限(衡水)全市,多数学生都来自于市区桃城区(原来衡水县级市),衡水中学已经将这些学生的潜能最大程度挖掘了。
政府为学校提供特殊招生政策,学校如果成为名校,不仅能带来升学率、一本率等等绩效和择校费、学区房涨价等经济收益,而且,名校本身的席位就是拉关系的好工具。
2013年,衡水中学和房地产公司河北泰华锦业共同出资,成立民办的衡水第一中学,也叫衡水中学南校区。
尽管一个是民办校一个是公立校,但两校几乎是一体的。
公办学校在招生规模和范围上都有限制,衡水一中建立后,衡水中学可以借民办之名做公办做不到的事情,面向全省招生。
2015年左右,衡水中学每年级招生1000余人,但衡水一中招了3200人[11]。
三个年级加上复读班,整个衡中成为了万人规模的超级大校。
加上旧有的滏阳中学,几所学校构成了衡水系超级中学。
许多地方领导以辖区内拥有“超级中学”为荣,一些教育行政部门甚至向中学校长下达招生、升学指标,完不成任务的“一票否决”
为了弥补“抽血”的损失,维持地方教育的表现,河北各地都开始以衡水模式为模板进行改革,教师与学生的压力都翻了几番。
2021年,“我就是一只来自乡下的土猪,也要立志去拱了大城市里的白菜”引发热议。
这句话出自衡水中学张同学在综艺上的一次演讲。
那位演讲的张同学高考结束后,坐着学校提供的三轮车走出校门,但没走多远就坐进了自家的轿车。
90年代有所谓的县一中现象。
几乎每个县都有一所教学质量不错的一中,每年有几个人能考上北大清华。
现在的江苏还维持了这一现象,因为江苏明确禁止出现超级高中,不允许在全省范围内跨地区大规模抢生源。