I'm happy to share that the ebook version of The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching is now available! Visit your favorite online retailer to purchase a copy, and if you don't have a favorite, see Norton's listing for the book for options. The paperback version is still on track for a late September release, but you can dive into the digital version of the book right now. It is packed with ideas and inspiration for teaching with, without, and about generative AI, and my co-authors Annette Vee...
8 days ago • 1 min read
The Future of AI-Aware Teaching My Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching co-authors Annette Vee and Marc Watkins and I had the good fortune to be guests on Bryan Alexander's Future Trends Forum the other week. If you missed the live show, the recording is now available on Bryan's YouTube channel. That recording doesn't include the text chat--which was a firehose!--but you'll get to hear us weigh in on What we mean by "AI-aware" teaching, AI as an arrival technology (that is, it just showed up...
14 days ago • 4 min read
My wife and I took a proper vacation last week--kid-free, for the first time in three years! Between that and the Juneteenth holiday, this newsletter didn't go out last week. But I did drop a new podcast episode last Tuesday, so here's a special Monday edition of the newsletter to get the word out about that new episode. Study Hall Is Back! Last year I tried a new podcast episode format in which I invite three guests on the show to discuss recent studies on teaching and learning in higher ed....
18 days ago • 2 min read
How to Grade: Alternative Models for the College Classroom I have more book news to share! Y'all know I'm a co-author on The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching coming out this summer. I had such a great experience writing that book with Annette Vee and Marc Watkins that when Emily Donahoe reached out to see if might be interested in collaborating with her on a new book about grading, I said most definitely. The book's working title is How to Grade: Alternative Models for the College Classroom,...
28 days ago • 7 min read
Resisting AI's Cognitive Offload with Leon Furze A few weeks ago, I interviewed author and consultant Leon Furze for Intentional Teaching. You may know Leon from his work on the AI Assessment Scale or his series of articles on teaching AI ethics. I've been citing his work for a while now, and I was eager to talk to him about several of his recent blog posts, especially this one and this one on ways we can support student use (and non-use) of AI to resist cognitive offloading. During our...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
The Berkeley Law Red-Light AI Policy For months now, I've been looking for examples of program-level responses to generative AI at colleges and universities. Almost all the work I've seen adapting to the challenges and opportunities that AI poses to teaching in higher ed has been at the level of the individual course. That's a great place to practice AI-aware teaching, of course, but at some point, our students will need more coherent approaches to AI across the courses they take. Last week...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Helping Students "Do the Reading" Several years ago, I interviewed Jenae Cohn for my old podcast about her book Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading. I remember Jenae sharing how the kind of reading skills she developed as an undergraduate student didn't always serve her well in graduate school. As an English major, she had time to read the novels and other books she was assigned quite closely, but as an English doctoral student, she had way too many books to read to practice that...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
I'm sending out the newsletter early this week because folks might be interested in attending a virtual event I'm participating in tomorrow. AI-Aware Teaching at the Perusall Exchange Thursday, May 14, 12pm Central: As part of Perusall Exchange 2026, my Norton Guide to AI-Aware teaching co-authors and I will be interviewed by Eric Mazur as part of a live recording of the Social Learning Amplified podcast--and you can attend! Just follow this link to register for the Exchange, which will...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Surviving Peak Higher Ed with Bryan Alexander The total number of students enrolled in US higher education institutions grew steadily in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. However that total peaked in 2011 at around 18 million students. It’s been declining ever since. You can imagine some of what that means—fewer students means less tuition, which means fewer faculty and staff and the closure of colleges and universities. US higher ed has been on the downhill across multiple measures for about 15...
2 months ago • 2 min read