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AI Is Quietly Changing Who Gets to Build Software
What If Universities No Longer Need Edtech Companies?
Aug 10 • Marc Watkins
Reading In An Age Of Thinking Machines
I’m releasing a project I created to help my online students read, with the hope that others might be able to use, adapt, or otherwise feel inspired to…
Jul 22 • Marc Watkins
Analog Is Having a Moment. But Is It Sustainable?
The growing backlash against AI-saturated classrooms has created a renewed sense of exploration into analog learning methods.
Jul 8 • Marc Watkins
Context Is All You Need
Why creative AI use takes judgment, taste, and a willingness to be inefficient.
Jun 24 • Marc Watkins
The Fable of AI in Education
What I built with Claude 5 before it disappeared and why almost no campus can afford to build the same.
Jun 17 • Marc Watkins
We Shouldn't Destroy Ourselves Fighting About AI
How we talk to one another about AI needs to improve.
Jun 5 • Marc Watkins
The Norton Guide To AI-Aware Teaching & Using AI As Provocative Pedagogy
Most writing about AI in education treats it as a problem to manage.
May 24 • Marc Watkins
How An AI Detector Made Me Trust People Less
A week with Pangram's new Chrome extension changed how I read social media — and not for the better.
May 3 • Marc Watkins
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