Cover of Teaching with AI. Center for Engaged Learning Book Review. "One of the most intriguing aspects of the book was the section on creativity.... The authors argue that AI systems can enhance creativity because they aren’t bound by human judgment issues such as anchoring and adjusting that can cause people to stop considering the best ideas.” Amanda Sturgill

Book Review: Teaching with AI

Bowen, José Antonio, and C. Edward Watson. 2024. Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.  Bowen and Watson’s work has the mixed blessing of being a first attempt to…

A blue gradient with a text overlay, "When we worry about AI replacing student effort, trust seems like it matters the most."

AI and Academic Integrity

Some of the early conversation about generative AI in education was its affordances for cheating. There were scores of social media posts. Institutions held discussions about how much, if any, to invest in AI detection software. And several thinkpieces opined about the…

Image generated using Dall-E from the prompt “College professor having trouble pushing an iceberg with a robot embedded in it, black and white editorial cartoon style." A text overlay reads, "If the chatbot can solve your problems, does higher education still matter?"

AI, Higher Ed and the Hype Cycle

Is AI going to make our lives worse? An interesting study came out recently from Elon’s Imagining the Digital Future Center (Rainie and Husser 2024) that sort of asked that question, in relation to deep fakes (United States Government Accountability Office 2020) and politics…