Ignite Innovation: Faculty Showcase Course Design Series Tuesday, April 1, 2025 Link to these slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ezr6HgVb7IoMrIWJEsMIlp93HPig_FK08gXIYhlawgo/edit?usp=sharing

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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I had the privilege of moderating a discussion between Josh Eyler and Robert Cummings about the future of AI in education at the University of Mississippi’s recent AI Winter Institute for Teachers.

My students this term have been *passionate* in their rejection of generative AI. I think the wildfires have something to do with it – the environmental impact of data centers, the scarcity of water, the terrible losses they’re seeing. . . it makes the ‘abstract’ of the climate crisis very real.

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I took an 8 week standup comedy class with Superior Improv Co. in Colorado, and here's a recording of my debut. (Also shout-out to comedian Christie Buchele who was a great teacher!) Literally first time on stage so if you don't have anything nice to say... go comment on one of my TikToks instead. And I really am a college professor who teaches (among other things) AI ethics! I also really did train a sheep at Zoo Atlanta for my behavioral psychology lab in 2003. If you are interested in actually *learning* about AI ethics, might I recommend my TikTok or Instagram @ professorcasey. And to the 12 year olds on YouTube: I'm going to tell your mom you said that.

Recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) raise a number of important questions for educators. In line with our mission, the CAT aims to advance critically-reflective, evidence-informed, and human-centered answers to these questions. This page serves as a central hub of resources [...]

Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.

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The mood around AI in education has taken a markedly darker tone of late.

I’ve written a lot, on and off, about the importance of developing critical AI literacy, but I realize now that it is not enough, and I’ve recently started thinking about all of this wi…

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AI’s ability to empower students to tailor their learning experience is a promising development in the quest to transform education. But we need to keep an eye on concerns that are more significant than the possibility of students over-relying on the technology.

Last week, Jefferey Young from Edsurge published a podcast episode When the Teaching Assistant is an ‘AI’ Twin of the Professor with an interview from me where I pushed back on this emerging trend of educators uploading their own writing to chatbots to create a “digital twin” for students to interact with.

A leading computer scientist says it’s “educability,” not intelligence, that matters most.

When future historians write about the education industry in the early 21st century, they may debate which event caused more lasting…

The “queen of the internet” is full of something…

My sincere thanks to those who helped support the creation of The Beyond ChatGPT series by subscribing to my newsletter. Your continued support has helped me carve out the time to research AI’s impact on skill development this summer. I’m committed to keeping the content of this series open to all. Moving forward, I’ll be revisiting each one of these past essays to explore ways educators can ethically use AI with students to help them learn or ways they can include intentional friction in the learning process to counter AI’s marketing promise of a frictionless learning experience.

From hundreds of internal projects to tinkering with the AI technology, Arizona State’s chief information officer reveals new details.

One university grapples with how to teach using large-language models.

As educators, we know the potential that artificial intelligence (AI) has for our profession. Generative AI, a subset of AI that can generate new and ...