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Navigating how AI impacts education, culture, and society.
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Reading In An Age Of Thinking Machines
I’m releasing a project I created to help my online students read, with the hope that others might be able to use, adapt, or otherwise feel inspired to try something new this coming semester.
Analog Is Having a Moment. But Is It Sustainable?
The growing backlash against AI-saturated classrooms has created a renewed sense of exploration into analog learning methods.
Context Is All You Need
Why creative AI use takes judgment, taste, and a willingness to be inefficient.
The Fable of AI in Education
What I built with Claude 5 before it disappeared and why almost no campus can afford to build the same.
We Shouldn't Destroy Ourselves Fighting About AI
How we talk to one another about AI needs to improve.
The Norton Guide To AI-Aware Teaching & Using AI As Provocative Pedagogy
Most writing about AI in education treats it as a problem to manage.
How An AI Detector Made Me Trust People Less
A week with Pangram's new Chrome extension changed how I read social media — and not for the better.
Grievance Farming Comes for Teaching Centers
Paul Schofield’s recent essay in the Chronicle was deeply critical of college teaching and learning centers and the staff that runs them.
What Happens When Students Stop Believing Their Work Matters
A maxim I’ve oft repeated for our AI era is that if a task can be automated, then it will.