Generative AI and Writing: Automation or Catalyst? – Agile Learning
Education AI
AI and Higher Ed: An Impending Collapse (opinion)
Herein lies the trap. If students learn how to use AI to complete assignments and faculty use AI to design courses, assignments, and grade student work, then what is the value of higher education? How long until people dismiss the degree as an absurdly overpriced piece of paper? How long until that trickles down and influences our economic and cultural output? Simply put, can we afford a scenario where students pretend to learn and we pretend to teach them?
Grading student writing with AI: What we lose when AI replaces teachers
Our students don’t write to impress a rubric--they write to be heard, and using AI to grade student writing misses the mark.
AI and a Return to Rhetoric - ReadBeanIceCream
Red Lights, Green Lights, and AI-Integrated Assignments – Agile Learning
What about AI and Academic Integrity?
How to talk with students who have overused AI in your course
Prove to Me You Aren’t a Robot
Humanities as a CAPTCHA Test in the Age of AI
The AI Assessment Scale: New Peer Reviewed Paper
The AI Assessment Scale (v2) has officially been published in the open access Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (JUTLP). Read more here!
Tallyrus
Tallyrus lets you upload documents and create custom rubrics to instantly analyze reports, resumes, or essays, turning hours of review into minutes.
The College Essay is dead
Why not ask the AI to do the face-to-face assessment? Let’s call this an AI Viva, by analogy with the verbal (viva voce) thesis defence traditionally reserved for PhD students. Here is how I think an AI viva could work: students continue to be taught in class, with as much interaction with the professor as possible; they can use AI as much as they like during the course, using it as a personal teaching assistant (a role it already plays very well). But at the end of the course, the student must meet with an AI examiner - without notes or help - and show what they have learned.
Why not ask the AI to do the face-to-face assessment? Let’s call this an AI Viva, by analogy with the verbal (viva voce) thesis defence traditionally reserved for PhD students. Here is how I think an AI viva could work: students continue to be taught in class, with as much interaction with the professor as possible; they can use AI as much as they like during the course, using it as a personal teaching assistant (a role it already plays very well). But at the end of the course, the student must meet with an AI examiner - without notes or help - and show what they have learned.
Asking a More Productive Question about AI and Assessment
'Given that AI exists in the world, and that students are likely to use it (whether accidentally or on purpose), what evidence of learning would I now find persuasive?'
The Un-Cheatable Assignment
Shifting from Policing Products to Assessing Process in the Age of AI
The superintendent’s guide to AI ethics in schools | SchoolAI
Superintendents can navigate AI compliance confidently using this complete 7-step framework to implement ethical AI while protecting student data.
In Praise of Assistance
A response to the cognitive offloading literature and Terry Underwood's "The Humanities and AI: A Year of Reckoning"
AI Conversations Behind Closed Doors
Student Focus Groups Reveal What's Actually Happening
The 5-Minute Canvas Makeover: How AI Can Redesign Your Course Pages
Step-by-step guide to using Claude AI for transforming Canvas LMS pages into clear, engaging course materials that boost student understanding.
Protecting Student Voice with AI
How librarians and educators can nurture creativity and gratitude without letting AI take over
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads - Slashdot
Nonprofit Code.org released its 2025 State of AI & Computer Science Education report this week with a state-by-state analysis of school policies complaining that "0 out of 50 states require AI+CS for graduation."
But meanwhile, at the college level, "Purdue University will begin requiring tha...
What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools
At MIT, I study the history and future of education technology, and I have never encountered an example of a school system – a country, state or municipality – that rapidly adopted a new digital technology and saw durable benefits for their students.
An Issue...
Commentary on An Issue... by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
The AI Leadership Playbook for 2025
Eight Essential Moves for Building Future-Ready Schools
Schools are fighting AI. Students will pay the price | Opinion
“At my central Texas high school, AI is seen as an enemy of integrity in the educational system, which may unknowingly be setting students up for career failure.”
Penn enters into AI advising agreement with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The agreement — which draws on the expertise of Penn faculty members — aims to help the state develop clear guidelines for the use of AI in fields such as education, healthcare, and public administration.
In the announcement, Jameson said the University’s goal is to “inform AI policies that benefit and protect all Pennsylvanians,” adding that “generative AI is changing how we work, learn, and innovate.”
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
there’s a difference between tools and technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the very environments in which we think, work, and relate. As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself. A pen extends communication without redefining it; social media transformed what we mean by privacy, friendship, even truth.
AI may be scoring your college essay. Welcome to the new era of admissions
Students applying to college know they're not supposed to use AI chatbots to write their essays. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using artificial intelligence to read those essays.
Businesses Want Employees With AI Skills. Are K-12 CTE Programs Keeping Up?
Most schools are still in the early stages of thinking about the role of AI in CTE programs.
Education Futures
Explore research, publications, and workshops on the future of education and discover how Education Futures can spark fresh thinking and tangible innovations.
Generative AI in High School: From Using to Understanding
Explore the evolving role of generative AI in high school education, focusing on ethics, critical analysis, and responsible use for college and careers.
Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits
A reading for your students
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."