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What to ask when AI vendors show up on campus
These procurement decisions are coming, whether or not they benefit student learning
Feb 10
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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad
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“ChatGPT, can you revise this draft in the style of a scientific paper?”
Formalizing and deformalizing academic writing–with and without AI tools
Feb 6
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Steve Heard
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From the Archives | At my high school no one is talking about AI
But everyone is using it
Jan 15
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Sam Barber
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At my high school no one is talking about AI
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AI is creating a divide between teachers and students
Aug 1, 2025
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Liz Rose Shulman
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Pause Before You Prompt
Dec 3, 2025
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Maggie Boyd
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I'm making my students read a book
Jul 23, 2025
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Helen Choi
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Blue Books Reimagined
Aug 5, 2025
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Danielle Kane
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Claire Elizabeth Mason
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Shifting My Thinking about AI in the Classroom
Aug 22, 2025
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Michael Burns
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Dec 26, 2025
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The conversation we’re having isn’t about AI; it’s about teaching and learning
Dec 26, 2025
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Jane Rosenzweig
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ChatGPT and "Inventing the University"
What we can learn from the em dash debate
Dec 10, 2025
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Shannon Mooney
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Pause Before You Prompt
Empowering Students to Evaluate AI Tools in a Values-Based Framework
Dec 3, 2025
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Maggie Boyd
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The Transparency Survey
A tool for reasoning about AI in writing
Nov 18, 2025
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Brett Vogelsinger
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We made our students read a book!
And we'd do it again
Nov 13, 2025
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Helen Choi
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Vance Ricks
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We're still here
And the work is still important!
Oct 31, 2025
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Jane Rosenzweig
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The Analog Sandwich
Can we bring AI into the classroom and then ask it to step outside?
Oct 6, 2025
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Mark Marino
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LLMs and the Problem of Meaning
If you put garbage into an LLM, you may get (fancy looking) garbage out
Sep 29, 2025
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Adrian Rowland
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