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

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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

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June 2026

Context Is All You Need

Why creative AI use takes judgment, taste, and a willingness to be inefficient.

Jun 24 • Marc Watkins

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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

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We Shouldn't Destroy Ourselves Fighting About AI

How we talk to one another about AI needs to improve.

Jun 5 • Marc Watkins

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May 2026

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

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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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April 2026

Grievance Farming Comes for Teaching Centers

Paul Schofield’s recent essay in the Chronicle was deeply critical of college teaching and learning centers and the staff that runs them.

Apr 26 • Marc Watkins

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What Happens When Students Stop Believing Their Work Matters

A maxim I’ve oft repeated for our AI era is that if a task can be automated, then it will.

Apr 12 • Marc Watkins

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March 2026

Who (Or What) Filled Out Your Course Evaluation?

Canvas will introduce its first AI agent directly into the LMS later this year, arriving in a chaotic landscape where few institutions have considered…

Mar 30 • Marc Watkins

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OpenAI's Education Pitch Has a Free Version Problem

OpenAI wants universities to invest in educational AI at scale, but students already live inside a free AI ecosystem that universities cannot control.

Mar 12 • Marc Watkins

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February 2026

Einstein & The Rise of Nuisance Tech

AI may be one of the most transformative innovations of our lifetime, but not when it is treated as spam.

Feb 27 • Marc Watkins

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