Since we have been producing detailed content on tech, artificial intelligence, and higher education for a year, it is easy to lose track of what we have covered.
Below, we organize all of our pieces by type, with every newsletter dated.
Table of Contents
🍎 Pedagogy
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January 10, 2024: Guide: Crafting Your Syllabus' AI Policy
December 13, 2023: Guide: Designing Assignments and Assessments in the Age of AI
August 7, 2023: Guide: How Professors Can Discourage and Prevent AI Misuse
University/College Course Design
Updated Monthly - Our custom GPT, designed to help professors create better assignments, courses, and syllabuses in the AI era
April 15, 2024 - How to use Gemini 1.5 Pro to produce high-quality quizzes and assessments from lecture audio and video
March 11, 2024 - Comparing Claude 3 Sonnet to ChatGPT3.5 for lesson planning
February 19, 2024 - Training your students’ judgment about the quality of AI tool outputs needs to be paired with training them in how to operate the tools
September 8, 2023 - Using LLMs like ChatGPT to quickly plan better lessons
May 4, 2023 - Deciding whether you should make room for AI training in your teaching is a complicated affair with many factors to consider
Personalization
January 14, 2024 - Google Labs’ AI games inspire clever ways to use custom GPTs to lower the cost of learning “reps”
December 11, 2023 - How to create custom GPTs for in-class activities and tutoring
Immersive Educational Experiences
Grading and Assessment
February 12, 2024 - Testing Google’s new Gemini Advanced on the same handwritten student submissions from December
December 22, 2023 - Evaluating the degree to which Google Gemini can evaluate handwritten student submissions
December 4, 2023 - Why we should all be reconsider final exams’ technology constraints, and how we can create custom GPTs to help us grade
November 27, 2023 - Why oral exams increase in value in the age of AI and how to use ChatGPT to reduce the cognitive load of grading
June 16, 2023 - The pros and cons of speaking assessments in the age of LLMs
April 24, 2023 - How to use AI to improve your grading and assessment by assessing, critiquing, and evaluating student submissions
Data Privacy
AI Misuse and Plagiarism
June 26, 2023 - How many students cheat, how AI complicates the picture, and what professors can do
March 20, 2023 - We can address or solve the AI plagiarism problem by thinking in general terms about the interface between pedagogical appropriateness and AI-immunity
March 13, 2023 - Professors' assignment design should be guided by a frank and realistic look at how easy effective AI plagiarism is
AI Immunity Challenge
April 8, 2024 - Believe your assignment can’t be completed by AI? (Challenge renewal)
August 16, 2023 - What we learned from trying to use AI to complete an AI-driven assignment on Plato
June 19, 2023 - What we learned trying to use AI to crack an economic project's reliance on lengthy novels, journal articles, and field-specific standards
April 3, 2023 - Believe your assignment is AI-immune? Let’s put it to the test
Accessibility
May 10, 2023 - How speech-to-text AI can enable and enhance student writing
Educational Technology
Interviews
Public Engagement
August 3, 2023 - Cambriae W. Lee and Graham publish a piece in Inside Higher Ed on why and how to use oral assessments
June 8, 2023 - Engaging the plausible, implausible, and uncertain claims about AI made by the second six experts of the Chronicle's recent panel
June 5, 2023 - Engaging the plausible, implausible, and uncertain claims about AI made by the first six experts of the Chronicle's recent panel
Guest Posts
🏃 Productivity
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March 6, 2024 - Tutorial: How Zoom AI Companion works and can be integrated with Google Workspace (Gmail and Google Docs) to significantly improve its functionality for one-on-one meetings, like those between professors and students
February 25, 2024 - Tutorial: How Gemini works with Gmail and how you can better integrate Gemini with Gmail to respond to emails addressed by your Docs
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Google Workspace
Coding
January 22, 2024 - Analyzing a tool that generates code for user interfaces from wireframes