Thinking out loud.

My father and grandfather watched their industry disappear. The mills did not fail quietly, and nobody stood up to explain what came after. That absence is the whole reason I teach.

Every syllabus now has an AI paragraph. Most of them are decorative. If the principle is real, it has to show up in the rubric.

I ran 3D scanners in steel mills before I ever wrote a prompt. The relationship between a person and a powerful tool was already familiar, and it was never about the tool being smart.