What Students Say About Their AI Use
Cross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. The other day on Bluesky, education professor Jon Becker shared a few highlights from a panel he attended …
It’s time to move past the notion of AI as an answer machine.
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to interview Leon Furze for my podcast. You may know Leon from his work on …
AI Tutors, Metacognition, and Teaching Students to Learn
I wrote the first draft of the “Using AI as a Tutor” chapter in the forthcoming Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching, co-authored with …
AI and the Work of Centers for Teaching and Learning
How should centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) be involved in conversations and activity around generative AI on their campuses? Last weekend, …
Reading Strategies: Scaffolding or Skill Building?
Cross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. You’ve heard of Google NotebookLM and its “audio overview” feature, right? This is the AI-powered tool that can …
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 …
The Perils of Lecture Class
Since I don’t have enough going on (apparently), I recently started another newsletter. It’s called Intentional Learning, and it’s focused on strategies …
Teaching Board Games #3: Scaffolding
This is the third in a series of posts on teaching board games, each illustrating how a research-based teaching principle can inform …
Teaching Board Games #2: The Big Picture
For some, teaching is a fairly intuitive act. But thanks to research from the fields of education, psychology, and elsewhere, we know …
Teaching Board Games #1: Mental Models
Back in college, a friend named Chad introduced me to the board game Settlers of Catan. More precisely, he introduced me to …