Let’s hold a moment of silence for one of our favorite tools: the five-page essay on a classic text, assigned on Monday and due in a week (or maybe at another point in the semester). For decades, this assignment was a reliable workhorse. It was a decent proxy for whether a student did the reading, […]
The Assignment is Dead. Long Live the Assignment. Read More »
Another email from the Provost’s office or some well-meaning soul in central administration. Subject: “Updated Guidance on Responsible AI Use.” How many does that make this year? You open it with a sigh. It’s three pages long, written in a dialect of corporate-speak that only exists in university administration (or drafted from GenAI, as though
The University Is Drowning in AI Memos. Faculty Need a Lifeline. Read More »
Somewhere on your campus, in a sterile, beige conference room, the “Presidential Blue-Ribbon AI Task Force” is meeting for the third time this month. Around the table sits the CIO, a lawyer from the General Counsel’s office, the head of university communications, and a well-meaning Dean who’s been tasked with herding the cats. They’re looking
Your University’s AI Strategy is Almost Certainly Backwards Read More »
Imagine your entire faculty has just completed a mandatory First Aid certification. They can all define “aneurysm,” apply a tourniquet, and perform CPR on a dummy. They are, in a word, literate in emergency medical care. Now, ask one of them to perform open-heart surgery. The absurdity of that request is the exact situation facing
AI Literacy is First Aid. Your University Needs Surgeons. Read More »
