Avoiding AI: Strategies for Keeping AI (Mostly) Out of Your Course
Cross-posted from the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence. On November 19, 2025, the Center for Teaching Excellence hosted a virtual …
Recent Experiments in Teaching with and about AI
Cross-posted from the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence This fall I facilitated a reading group for the book Teaching Effectively with …
Teaching with Blogs: An Interview with Humberto Garcia
I’m happy to announce the start of Season 3 of Leading Lines, a podcast on educational technology co-produced by the Center for …
Class Time Reconsidered: Flipping the Literature Class
You know about the flipped classroom, right? That thing where you take what you used to do during class (say, lecture) and …
Highlights from Carleton College’s Visual Learning Conference (Part 3)
Carleton College’s Visual Learning Conference was one of the most interesting and unusual conferences I’ve attended. As I noted in my first …
Structured Twitter Assignments
Last month on ProfHacker, Mark (@samplereality) Sample described his use of Storify to collect and organize student tweets in his science fiction …
Clickers, Peer Review, and the Teaching of Writing
My latest guest post on ProfHacker is now available: “Using Clickers to Facilitate Peer Review in a Writing Seminar.” Some backstory… Back …
Can Clickers Help Teach Critical Thinking? In the Humanities?
Earlier this month, David Clemens, who teaches literature at Monterey Peninsula College, authored a post titled “The Data-Driven Classroom” on the National …
Gardner Campbell + Backchannel in the Classroom
Gardner Campbell and two of his Baylor University colleagues, librarian Ellen Filgo and first-year student Alexis Tracy, presented a talk at the …
Numeric Response Questions in History Courses
Maybe this is obvious to others, but I hadn’t thought of this particular use of numeric-response clicker questions, shared with me by …