Derek Bruff's blog on teaching and learning
Cross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. Two weeks ago in the newsletter, I shared some data from this summer s Inside Higher Ed student survey on the ways students find generative AI helpful in their learning. Today, I want to point to more data from that survey, this time about institutional responses to AI.
Cross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. The other day on Bluesky, education professor Jon Becker shared a few highlights from a panel he attended featuring high school students talking about education policy topics. One of those topics was generative AI, and here s what Jon reported the panel saying about it: On AI,
Cross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. My Norton Guide co-authors Annette and Marc and I were the guests last week on Bryan Alexander s Future Trends Forum, a long-running live video conversation series exploring the future of higher education. We covered a lot of ground in the conversation, and the text chat
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to interview Leon Furze for my podcast. You may know Leon from his work on the AI Assessment Scale or his series of articles on teaching AI ethics. He s a thought leader in the ways that generative AI is affecting education, and I m
I m trying a thing here. My podcast host, Buzzsprout, lets me create custom podcast players that feature only episodes of the show with a particular tag. If this works as I think it does, the episodes in the embedded player below are just the ones that focus on AI-aware teaching
I wrote the first draft of the “Using AI as a Tutor” chapter in the forthcoming Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching, co-authored with Annette Vee and Marc Watkins. I pitched this chapter for the book because I was brought into the author team as the “STEM guy,” that is, a co-author
Cross-posted from the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence. On February 13, 2026, the Center for Teaching Excellence hosted a second virtual conversation on the topic of avoiding AI, that is, strategies for keeping AI (mostly) out of one s course. Building on a similar conversation held in November, this session
How should centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) be involved in conversations and activity around generative AI on their campuses? Last weekend, Kevin Gannon, director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence at Queens University-Charlotte posed a provocative set of questions about this topic on the Google Group
Cross-posted from the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence. On November 19, 2025, the Center for Teaching Excellence hosted a virtual lunch-and-learn titled “Avoiding AI: Strategies for Keeping AI (Mostly) Out of Your Course.” The event was part of the CTE’s ongoing efforts to help faculty and other instructors
Cross-posted from the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence This fall I facilitated a reading group for the book Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT by Dan Levy and Angela Pérez Albertos. I like that the book is so incredibly practical, with dozens of examples how instructors and students use generative AI to