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Why faculty members need to shift the balance of class time from first exposure to skills practice.

Last week, many textbook authors received this notice about the settlement of a $1.5 billion class action lawsuit against Anthropic, the AI company that makes Claude, for stealing our textbooks and other academic work.

As headlines report The Beatles used artificial intelligence to create a new song featuring John Lennon's voice, Verity Harding says the international frenzy shows just how unprepared we are for the new technological age.

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“I started out as an academic integrity prescriptivist. I was the hard-nosed.”“There’s really only three main ways that we can ask students to demonstrate academic integrity: Trust, Verification, Observation.”In this 41st episode of The Opposite of Cheating Podcast, David talks with Thomas J. Tobin, an educational developer and consultant with decades of experience, to challenge the punitive paradigms that dominate academic integrity conversations. Sharing his personal transformation from “academic integrity prescriptivist” to UDL champion, Tom walks listeners through a powerful framework for promoting honesty in learning environments: Trust, Verification, and Observation.He emphasizes how lowering barriers—around time, grades, due dates, and communication—can dramatically reduce student pressure and cheating behavior. Rather than defaulting to surveillance and restriction, Tom calls on instructors to make design choices that respect learner variability and build integrity by default.Listeners will learn how…

AI Mode tells us that on a bookshelf, "spines traditionally face inward". Pretty dumb, right?Or is it?

The best way to build a mental habit is to make the physical motions associated with it second nature

Relying heavily on AI doesn’t only stifle critical thinking.

After watching strangers build apps overnight, I finally tested vibe coding myself. It was chaotic, addictive, and surprisingly empowering.

Last week in the credit-bearing course I co-teach, we asked students to listen to a podcast episode from MIT Technology Review about how AI is impacting the job application process. Listening to the spirited classroom discussion led me to reflect on my own job search this year and the role AI may have—or may not

Before a teacher implements AI tools in her classroom, here are some questions that she should consider.

AI tools help us go faster. But speed is not all you need.

Trump goes all in on Silicon Valley, leaving US citizens, and even his own party behind.

We should stop declaring we know the future and give students the space to figure things out for themselves.

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During a discussion of the book Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT, UVA faculty shared their recent experiments in AI-integrated assignments.

We all pretend to understand AI but Dr. Geoffrey Hinton actually does. He’s been dubbed the “Godfather of AI” for half-century of work on machine learning and neural networks. So what does this Nobel Prize-winning Al Pacino make of our AI age? Is this an industrial revolution, or the start of something more alien? How does AI … even work? Is it more neuroplastic than a baby’s brain? How far away is super intelligence? Can’t we just unplug the thing off like Jack Bauer in 24, or will it manipulate and blackmail us before we can do that? And, oh, are the Swedish meatballs served at the Nobel Prize reception actually tasty? AI, says Hinton is a “know-it-all,” but Nayeema definitely isn’t: she asks the “dumb” questions we all have about this new weird world of AI to Geoffrey Hinton, the Turing Award winner, 2024 Physics Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto. In the process, we all get a lot smarter. HIT FOLLOW OR SUBSCRIBE to get AI Godfather, Part II where we learn if AI is alive like a…

Unemployed young people are hired over WhatsApp for low-wage data labeling jobs.

Six evidence-based use cases to try in Google's latest image-generating AI tool

From AGI to Workslop It's time for our annual tradition: a very long list of pieces written about AI this year that have stuck with me, for better or for worse. I've sorted them in alphabetical order by keyword. I acknowledge some weak spots here, chiefly on the environment, data infrastructures, but lots of other things. I am just one guy. Did I miss anything? Come tell me on Blue Sky. I've got one post on auto-pilot and will take some time off through January, so, until then: Happy Holidays,

How might AI impact higher education, and how can academics best respond?This week we host legendary president Paul LeBlanc to explore his projects and think...

The watermark is invisible to the naked eye. Here's how to find it.

221K likes, 2,527 comments - corporate.bro on November 18, 2025: "Not even the least human of my coworkers".

A clear method for writers who want AI help without giving up control. Use this prompt to improve craft while keeping your voice.