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Your Campus Already Has AI—And That's the Problem
If you teach on a college campus, you likely have access to a slew of generative AI tools or features that have been quietly embedded in applications…
Jun 8
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Marc Watkins
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May 2025
Two Days in the Generative Wild West
For the fourth time, I helped host a university-wide institute for faculty to explore how generative AI impacts their teaching and their student…
May 30
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Two Days in the Generative Wild West
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The Stories (and Students) Forgotten in the AI Panic
I'm preparing to host our fourth faculty institute on generative AI tomorrow at UM with 90+ colleagues attending. I've been thinking about how harmful…
May 18
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Marc Watkins
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The Stories (and Students) Forgotten in the AI Panic
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When "Vibe Checks" Fail
LLMs are already capable of superhuman persuasion. The real danger isn’t one bad update—it’s the industry-wide pattern of prioritizing scale over…
May 4
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Marc Watkins
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April 2025
College Students Get Free Premium AI, Now What?
Google is now offering college students over a year of free access to their Gemini advanced AI suite of tools.
Apr 27
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Marc Watkins
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College Students Get Free Premium AI, Now What?
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Publication Announcement-Thresholds in Education Special Issue on GenAI
Volume 48, Issue 1: Generative AI’s Impact on Education: Writing, Collaboration, & Critical Assessment
Apr 18
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Marc Watkins
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Publication Announcement-Thresholds in Education Special Issue on GenAI
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Showing Up for the Future: Why Educators Can’t Sit Out the AI Conversation
Guest post from Lew Ludwig
Apr 4
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Marc Watkins
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Showing Up for the Future: Why Educators Can’t Sit Out the AI Conversation
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March 2025
The Chatbot Generation
An entire generation of students will come of age within this generative era. Does anyone believe their exposure to the technology as a cheating tool…
Mar 30
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Marc Watkins
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The Chatbot Generation
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When Algorithms Watch You Write
Like so many things in our world, our well-intentioned efforts to solve one problem usher in a legion of new challenges, and AI detection is no…
Mar 16
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Marc Watkins
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February 2025
The Truth About AI and All Its Ugly
Right now, an entire generation of young users is coming of age with generative technology. How do you think they’re going to view this technology when…
Feb 28
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Marc Watkins
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The Costs of AI in Education
What’s really going on with campus-wide AI adoption is a mix of virtue signaling and panic purchasing. Universities aren’t paying for AI—they’re paying…
Feb 21
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AI's Illusion of Reason
We shouldn’t need any illusions to understand how generative tools might be useful. This obsession with anthropomorphization hinders our ability to…
Feb 9
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