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Man presents at the front of a large lecture hall with a slide that reads: Finding Value and Meaning in a World of AI

Marc Watkins on Finding Value and Meaning in a World with AI

Reflections on Mark Watkins' Keynote at a Recent Conference It was such a pleasure to get to see Marc Watkins'...
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Hammering My Way into AI-Related Metaphors and a Familiar Song

This isn't the first time, nor will it be the last, that Maha Bali puts into words, ideas I've been...
Alex Hartemink presenting from the front of a large lecture hall. His slide is titled "Humans have longed to make intelligent beings in their own image" and shows a collage of film stills, including HAL 9000, C-3PO from Star Wars, TRON, Data from Star Trek, a young boy in a white sweatshirt looking out a window toward mountains and trees, three shadowy green-iridescent figures in a room with glowing floors, walls, and ceiling, WALL-E holding a Rubik's cube, and a hand holding a foldable device showing a call from Samantha in the film Her.

What I Learned About What We Should We Know About AI?

I had the privilege of attending the (Re)Imagining Liberal Arts & STEM Education in the Age of GenAI conference at...
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My 2026 Tech Stack

I'm one of those people who enjoys looking at what people's home screens look like on their phones or how...
Person typing on a keyboard

Trying Out PopClip After Watching a ScreencastsONLINE Tutorial About It

ScreencastsONLINE just continues to pay dividends for me in my Apple-device-filled life. In this case, it was a brand new...
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My Three Categories of Considerations for Using AI Tools

This is the third post in a series about AI tools, broadly speaking, and Claude Cowork, specifically. The first post...
Bookshelf with a book being held out from the rest. Chris Argyris' On Organizational Learning

Why Naming Things Matters and Why TiHE Recommendations Are the Best

Many people have told me how much they get out of the recommendations segment of Teaching in Higher Ed each...
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AI, Privacy, and the Risks Worth Understanding Before You Dive In

This is the second post in a series about my use of AI agents, broadly speaking, and Claude Cowork, specifically....
robots statues made out of pottery in a garden

Permission to Go Slow

I'm beginning a series of posts about my experimentation with Claude Cowork, specifically, but also about the landscape of AI...
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Being Known: Conditions for Flourishing in Learning + Teaching

Dave sent me his notes from an evening event at our kids' school about college preparation. Mind you, neither of...
Male, African American nurse assists a patient in a wheelchair

SIFT + AI for Fact-Checking: What I Learned Testing a Claim About Nursing Pay

I used to be among the people who thought that privacy wasn't really much of a thing to be overly...
Grid of various colorful drawings using the Procreate app on the ipad, including an orange, pear, fried egg, pizza, plants, and a moth

Choosing Rhythms of Consistent, Predictable Joy

These are the drawings from the instructor. Look lower in the post for information about the...