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.
Table of Contents
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🍎 Pedagogy
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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
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
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
September 8, 2023 - Using LLMs like ChatGPT to quickly plan better lessons
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
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
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
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
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
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
April 3, 2023 - Believe your assignment is AI-immune? Let’s put it to the test
Accessibility
May 10, 2023 - How speech-to-text AI can enable and enhance student writing
Educational Technology
Interviews
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
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🏃 Productivity
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June 19, 2024 - Tutorial: Easy Student Consent Management in Microsoft 365
May 31, 2024 - Tutorial: Easy Student Consent Management in Google Workspace
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
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
Reflections on AI Efficiency
🧰 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
Miscellaneous
June 3, 2024 - An interview with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral AI
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