Learning through Elaboration (and AI Chatbots)
I publish a newsletter called Intentional Teaching most Thursdays. What follows is one of my favorite pieces of newsletter writing from the …
Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Essay Edition
This post is getting some traction, so I wanted to let readers know that I run a newsletter and podcast called Intentional …
Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Reading Response Edition
This post is getting some traction, so I wanted to let readers know that I run a newsletter and podcast called Intentional …
AI as Answer Machine? Or Wordsmith? Or Something Else?
Last month on the blog, I floated the idea of thinking about generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard as technologies …
Generative AI as a Learning Technology
On last week’s episode of the Intentional Teaching podcast, I talked with educators and authors James Lang and Michelle D. Miller about …
On ChatGPT, Boilerplate, and Ghost Writing
Last week, the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College sent an email to students in response to …
Chatbot as Audience: A Conversation with Chad
After weeks of reading about other college educators having conversations with ChatGPT, the new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot from OpenAI that uses …
A Bigger, Badder Clippy: Enhancing Student Learning with AI Writing Tools
On December 15th, educator and futurist Bryan Alexander hosted an edition of his Future Trends Forum focused on ChatGPT and other AI …
Three Things to Know about AI Tools and Teaching
Everywhere I look online these days, I see educators talking about the challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to teaching and learning. …
Best Season Yet of VandyVox?
Back in 2018, I talked with half a dozen faculty at Vanderbilt who were adding podcast or other audio assignments to their …