MYFest25: Let's Prompt Together: Educators Sharing and Refining AI Prompts
MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Anna Mills facilitates this MYFest session held on July 23, 2025.Learn from examples of thoughtfully designed...
AI
Higher education prepares for the upcoming AI-ified year
Developments in how higher education is responding to AI.
Building Bridges of Knowledge (BBK) – The City University of New York
25 Colleges. One University.
Are we thinking about AI the wrong way? — On Point | Podcast
AI researcher Ethan Mollick says most public conversation focuses too much on potential AI catastrophes and not enough on making the technology work for people. Mollick says if we don’t change that, none of us will be prepared for the near future where “everything will change all at once.”
In Praise of Extruding AI
Emily Bender and Alex Hanna have performed a huge public service by writing The AI Con, The book is insightful, incisive, and totally accessible.
How I’m Handling AI This Fall
A potentially ill-fated plan
Faculty better get active on AI and academic freedom.
Do I even have to ask?
How Are Students Really Using AI?
h/t Julie Cowen
So, what do the data tell us? Many, but not all, students use AI, and it’s getting more common. Students are ambivalent about AI and get mixed messages from professors and institutions. Students think institutions should incorporate AI more, but they are wary of having it replace teaching. And AI use can facilitate learning but also seriously harm learning if it’s not carefully and intentionally implemented. We need to keep these conclusions in mind, and keep an eye on what further research will tell us, as AI continues its relentless march into our classrooms.”
Visualize what matters with AI | MyLens
MyLens is a free AI that turns your raw ideas, complex documents, or other content into interactive, editable, and ready to present visuals—mindmaps, timelines, tables, flowcharts, charts, and more.
New Michigan Law Essay Prompt Asks Applicants to Use AI
With nearly half of all large law firms using AI in some way, the leadership at Michigan Law wanted to give AI aficionados a chance to show their skills.
AI Awareness Starts with Time
Time is one of the luxuries every teacher searches for within their classrooms.
MYFest25: Researchers Writing With(out) AI
MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Shyam Sharma facilitates this MYFest session held on July 15, 2025.In this interactive workshop, we will expl...
MYFest25: The Battle for Alt: Bots vs Brains
MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Mark Marino and Yasser Atef facilitate this MYFest session held on July 16, 2025.Alt tags and text provide a ...
University students feel ‘anxious, confused and distrustful’ about AI in the classroom and among their peers
Whether students and faculty are actively using AI or not, it is having significant interpersonal, emotional effects on learning and trust in the classroom.
What Higher Ed Is Like for Students Who Don’t Want to Use A.I.
“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.
Doug Belshaw on digital and AI literacies
... and ambiguity, playfulness, and vibe coding
R3 3.7 July 15, 2025 How Do Tutoring Chatbots Stack Up Against In-Class Active Learning?
Surprising impacts of a custom AI chatbot developed for an introductory physics course
The definition of “artificial intelligence” began at the 1956 Dartmouth workshop!
Inside the Artificial Intelligence Hype Cycle. And How AI is Making Music — On the Media
Over- and under-hyping of AI.
Grok’s MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to come
Musk trained Grok to be right-wing. We’re lucky he wasn’t more subtle.
Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
Our research shows that even the latest "reasoning" models are vulnerable
Teaching: Assignments that mitigate AI abuse
Professors are struggling in asynchronous and large-enrollment courses. Here are some ideas that could help.
“AI Models Don’t Understand, They Just Predict” – improving learning
AI Ethical Guidelines
As artificial intelligence becomes integrated into all corners of higher education, addressing ethical concerns is crucial to responsible implementati
Botshit Gone Wild
The downsides of generative AI are growing like wildfire
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.
How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.
No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.
Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.
Live demo of Deep Background for Claude and ChatGPT o3
A walk through using this tool as a student, with some discussion on what excites me about it. Prompt available for free here: https://checkplease.neocities....
Lewis Black on AI in Education
Just in case you missed this bit from the Daily Show.