Topic
AI
Essays, talks, and papers tagged “AI”.
2026
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Pedagogy of the Prompt Substack
Reading the instruction files behind Claude for Teachers.
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Promised, Provisioned, Functional? Substack
What it takes to make AI infrastructure work in education
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Announcing Wonderbits Substack
After a long journey of design, testing, research, and many conversations with students and educators, I’m excited to share Wonderbits.
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To Get AI Right, Schools Should Think Like Architects, Not Shoppers Substack
Education leaders have spent more than two years grappling with artificial intelligence in schools.
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AI Squats Substack
In the first meeting with students this semester, I shared my New Year’s resolution: doing more squats. They looked at me puzzled. Then I elaborated. I want to do squats when I outsource something substantial to AI, like …
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2026
2025
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From Magic Wand to Flashlight Substack
Rethinking AI for Brainstorming
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Same Principles, Different Roles: How AI Functions in Two Courses I’m Teaching Substack
Last month, I presented in front of a room full of faculty from across Penn—historians, law professors, health sciences educators, psychology professors—all grappling with the same challenge: What do we actually do about …
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When Relationships Are What We’re Left With Substack
As I prep for a new semester with a fresh cohort of students, I keep thinking about what I’m actually preparing them for.
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How Capitalism Captured Our Language—And What It Means for AI Substack
While I am still stuck with making sense of the attention economy, we’re already facing the intention economy fueled by AI.
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From Jet Lag to AI Lag Substack
When Machine Time Imposes on Human Time
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On Vibe Reading Substack
What Happens When We Stop Looking at the Text?
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Cooking with Claude: On Tools, Relationships, and the Evolving Self Substack
Yesterday, I found myself staring at my screen, waiting.
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Preserving Human Idiosyncrasy: Generative Learning in the Age of Generative AI
A quiet shift is happening in how we speak and write, and most of us don’t even notice it. Words like “delve,” “underscore,” and “realm” are suddenly everywhere in academic writing and speech. “You sound like ChatGPT,” …
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The Heart of Knowledge: What Chinese Language Evolution Tells Us About the AI Societal Transformation
Consider the character for love: 愛 becomes 爱. In the traditional form, the heart (心) sits nestled within—love literally contains the heart. In the simplified version, that heart disappears. What remains is efficient, …
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2025
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2025
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2025
2024
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The Many Faces of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI is often the elephant in the room, surfacing in everything from high-stakes policymaking and academic research to casual conversations with my barber. It permeates so many aspects of life that it’s hard to escape its …
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Let’s complicate the idea of infrastructure in conversations about GenAI
First, a blog post Rethinking AI Infrastructure: Beyond the Surface-Level Conversations The current excitement around generative AI has sparked a wave of discussions about its potential to transform various aspects of …
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2024
2023
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2023
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Putting Generative AI in Classrooms
It was more than one year ago when I mused on the topic of integrating AI in education. Now, it feels like that post was made a decade ago! Yesterday, I got a chance to be on a panel on this topic, moderated by my great …
2022
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Integrating AI in Knowledge Building
Earlier this week, I had the good fortune of joining a panel organized by my colleageus Seng Chee Tan and Alwyn Lee at the 2022 Empowering Learners in AI conference. Several colleagues including Leanne Ma (University of …
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What role should A.I. play in education?
Listening to podcasts has become a new habit of mine during the pandemic, when cooking or doing dishes, on the way to pick up my toddler, or when my eyes need a break from the screen. Last week, I listened to an …
2019
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Automate for Whom?
I have been working at a large public R1 university long enough – 4 years – to witness steady changes with technology installed in public restrooms. Below is a newly installed automatic paper towel dispenser in our …