Since we have been producing detailed content on tech, artificial intelligence (AI), and higher education for more than 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.

🍎 Pedagogy

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• July 3, 2024: Guide: How to Train Students to Use AI

• April 24, 2024: Guide: Ethically Using AI with Student Data

• 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, rubrics, and syllabuses in the AI era

• December 20, 2024 - 7 tasks to do before spring

• June 10, 2024 - Using ChatGPT’s Advanced Data Analysis to improve your pedagogy (analyze your gradebooks and courses)

• 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

• September 8, 2023 - Using LLMs like ChatGPT to quickly plan better lessons

AI Training

• November 18, 2024 - AI literacy and “technical knowledge”

• September 16, 2024 - GPT-o1 is here and its implications for prompting and training students to use AI are unclear

• August 26, 2024 - The 4-step process to teach students AI use (avoid “harming” your students’ learning with AI by getting clear on its role)

• July 29, 2024 - How to cite AI

• July 15, 2024 - Must you require your students to buy LLM access? (Probably not; the paid plans aren’t worth it at the moment, except in special circumstances.)

• June 24, 2024 - How the newly released Claude 3.5 Sonnet multimodal LLM is useful for training students to use AI because of its improved user interface (“Artifacts”)

• 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

• 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

• September 2, 2024 - Google’s custom GPTs (“Gems”) are here and they are better and worse than the alternatives

• March 25, 2023 - Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) released “Ed”, which is an AI chatbot available in multiple languages that they pitch as a “personal assistant”

• 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

• March 18, 2024 - How Sora and other generative AI for video lower the cost of creating immersive educational experiences, thereby expanding the student populations who can benefit from them

Grading and Assessment

• May 20, 2024 - Using GPT-4o to analyze handwriting and handwritten student submissions

• May 6, 2024 - Releasing the AutomatED Feedback Accelerator GPT

• April 29, 2024 - How I grade 2-3x faster with ChatGPT

• 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

• October 14, 2024 - 2 Objections to Professorial AI Usage (“AI cannot be trusted with student data”; “AI cannot express my expertise”)

• April 22, 2024 - Will open-source LLMs solve student data privacy problems?

• October 4, 2023 - How to use AI while protecting student data

• September 22, 2023 - The integration of AI with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Zoom make data privacy concerns with AI all the more pressing

AI Misuse and Plagiarism

• September 16, 2024 - GPT-o1 is here and it means content-based AI-immunity has diminished

• August 19, 2024 - 3 strategies to discourage AI misuse by your students and why now is the time to implement them

• August 12, 2024 - Why 99.9% reliable AI detection tools from OpenAI and Google probably ought not be used, even if we had access to them

• June 17, 2024 - Why process-focused assessments and reflections are becoming less and less plausible defenses against AI misuse

• June 26, 2023 - How many students cheat, how AI complicates the picture, and what professors can do

• May 26, 2023 - Whether AI detection tools work or not, it is not clear that it matters, given that the evidence they provide isn’t sufficiently transparent to accuse students

• April 10, 2023 - Preventing AI plagiarism leads to skilled AI users because evaluating the quality of an AI tool's output requires students to have skills that they develop when unable to use AI

• 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

• May 15, 2023 - What we learned from using AI to try to crack a clinical research exam's iterated questions, verboten content, and field-specific standards

• April 3, 2023 - Believe your assignment is AI-immune? Let’s put it to the test

Accessibility

• October 28, 2024 - AI that can click and type

• May 10, 2023 - How speech-to-text AI can enable and enhance student writing

Educational Technology

• November 4, 2024 - ChatGPT’s Search Engine is here

• March 27, 2023 - Professors should upgrade their boring content with e-learning lessons, which significantly increase student engagement, assessment-integration, and personalization

Interviews

• July 1, 2024 - I talk to Jose Luis Ucieda Blanco, a professor of accounting at the Autonomous University of Madrid, about how he uses AI to help his students reflect, how he uses AI to save time and produce course content, what challenges he’s faced (including a disastrous AI-enabled final exam), and why he thinks AI-independent skills and knowledge are key to effective AI use — and why we need to train students to have them

• July 24, 2023 - We talk to Paul Blaschko, philosophy professor at Notre Dame, about his highly successful courses, professors' pedagogical role, and technology

• July 5, 2023 - We talk to Patricia Sasser, music librarian at Furman University, about libraries' evolution and information literacy as we enter the AI era (or not)

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

• May 29, 2023 - Eric Steinhart, a philosophy professor, explains how and why to use AI image generators like Stable Diffusion to illustrate concepts

🏃 Productivity

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• October 26, 2024 - Tutorial: How to Anonymize Canvas submissions in Google Workspace

• September 21, 2024 - Tutorial: How to use AI with Canvas LMS

• August 9, 2024 - Tutorial: How to Draft Grant Applications with Gemini

• July 31, 2024 - Tutorial: How to Grade and Analyze Your Teaching with ChatGPT

• June 19, 2024 - Tutorial: Easy Student Consent Management in Microsoft 365

• May 31, 2024 - Tutorial: Easy Student Consent Management in Google Workspace

• April 4, 2024 - Tutorial: How Zoom AI Companion works and can be integrated with Microsoft 365 (Word and OneDrive) via Power Automate to significantly improve its functionality for one-on-one meetings, like those between professors and students

• 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

• February 7, 2024 - How professors can save time with Microsoft 365 Copilot by using Outlook to automatically answer student questions addressed by your syllabus, catch up students who missed class, and create PowerPoint lecture slides

Microsoft 365 Copilot

• February 26, 2024 - Using Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Outlook to go from mean and blunt drafts to perfect emails in order to save time

• February 5, 2024 - How to save time producing lecture slides with PowerPoint with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Google Workspace

• May 28, 2024 - Google I/O brings many updates, from LearnLM to customizable Gems to Gemini 1.5 Pro now in Side Panel

• March 4, 2024 - How to use Google Apps Script to link Gmail to Google Docs, as well as a discussion of why we shouldn’t forget “dumb” tech

• January 29, 2024 - Why it is a big deal that Google Duet AI is now available for institutions of higher education to purchase

Coding

• January 22, 2024 - Analyzing a tool that generates code for user interfaces from wireframes

Student Meetings

• November 25, 2024 - Ease end-of-term headaches with AI

• March 6, 2023 - Integrating the Fireflies.ai voice recording, transcription, and analysis tool with Zoom for student meetings

Reflections on AI Efficiency

• November 25, 2024 - Ease end-of-term headaches with AI

• October 23, 2023 - Should professors fill only the shrinking gaps left by science and tech, just like the gods before them?

• October 9, 2023 - AI increases efficiency, lowers skill inequality, and affects the educator’s role

🧰 AI Tool Use (Prompting, Setup, etc)

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• May 22, 2024 - Tutorial: How to Build (Better) Custom GPTs

• April 30, 2024 - Tutorial: A Beginner's Guide to Running Local LLMs

Prompting

• September 23, 2024 - 10 Ways I Use LLMs like ChatGPT as a Professor

• September 16, 2024 - GPT-o1 is here and its implications for prompting are unclear

• April 1, 2024 - Zero-shot and few-shot prompting with role-playing and chain-of-thought methods

• April 17, 2023 - How to use ChatGPT to learn by following heuristics for effective use

Miscellaneous

September 30, 2024 - Will AI have an equalizing effect on prestige in undergraduate education?

June 3, 2024 - An interview with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral AI