Reading Discussions Become a Newsletter
Designing major courses in an AI era where writing becomes media. A 58-slide colloquium presentation connecting research, reading, recorded judgments, and production through each student's personal newsroom.
Hallym University Media School and university faculty · Institute of Information Technology and Culture Colloquium · Media Education in the AI Era · 2026.06.10

What this project covers
- Teaching and recording the problem-solving process alongside outcomes in the AI era
- Course design linking research and journalism examples to students' primary sources and human judgment
- A personal newsroom separating collection, understanding, and action, and connecting reading, discussion, and writing through newsletters
Presentation outline
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- An era of assessing process alongside results
- Reading Discussions Become a Newsletter
- SK's AI competency certification exam appeared on the nine o'clock news
- Nine years of experience: A; twenty years: B — even experienced KBS reporters struggled
- Reporter Bang Jun-won
- Reporter Kim Jun-beom
- Two exam stages: literacy, then bootcamp
- New broadcast producers may soon face the same: three abilities assessed together
- Writing and planning
- Structuring work with AI
- Executing through vibe coding
- AI use and judgment in academic work
- Of 4,946 researchers worldwide, only 1,043 had actually used AI in research
- For 66%, the barrier was not ability but a lack of training or guidance
- 44% needed AI training
- 22% did not know where to start
- What is acceptable? Editing: 90%; translation: 91%
- Yet a majority said AI should never be used for Methods, Results, or Discussion
- Papers that used AI as a tool were far ahead
- Number of papers published
- Citation count
- Time to promotion as a team leader
- A reversal in just seven months
- 52% strongly opposed AI in peer review
- Already using AI in peer review (around 1,600 respondents worldwide)
- Six academic recommendations, all pointing toward process
- Transparency and responsibility
- AI literacy education
- Ethics and integrity
- Equity and access
- Community participation
- Policy leadership
- The human role that journalism demands
- Core graduate competencies: the same four abilities
- Journalists who use AI effectively follow the same pattern
- Create primary material
- Assist
- Make final judgments and publish
- Repeatable action and records
- Agentic Investigation Challenge — an ongoing challenge at the time of the presentation
- Four deliverables: documenting process alongside results
- Agent Skills
- Findings (PDF)
- Interaction Traces (JSON)
- README.md
- A structure for records that retain the process
- Three paths point to one destination
- SK AX
- Nature · Frontiers
- Northwestern
- Five stages of AI: from prompts to harnesses
- The national AI strategy committee adopted Markdown as a standard document format
- The same file: clean to human eyes, broken for AI
- The issue is the form of the record, not simply whether one exists
- I know, but I do not act
- Little more than temporary storage
- Existing only in one's head
- Awareness ≠ Action
- A workspace separating collection, understanding, and action
- The key is separating collection, understanding, and action
- CMDS LLM Wiki
- CMDS Vault
- Achmage OS
- A place to collect, a place to understand, a place to create
- Collect material → Judge understanding → Accumulate knowledge → Act
- Research desk · Editorial and reading notes · Production desk
- LLM Wiki
- Vault
- Achmage OS
- Ten principles for sustained reading and writing
- Reading Discussions Become a Newsletter
Resources
- Original presentation · 58 slides ↗ HTML · 2026-06-10 · Dark Brutalist
- Original GitHub Pages version ↗ LINK · 2026-06-10