The following articles are helpful for thinking about the challenges and opportunities that large language models (LLMs) bring to teaching and learning:
GenAI Use in the Classroom
- Productive Friction: What Universities Must Protect in the Age of AI by Vladimir Bratic (9/26)
- Generative AI hasn’t changed learning: It’s still hard to become an expert by An, Baumer, Supp, et al (8/26)
- There and Back Again: Why I Don’t Ask My Students to Use AI by Lew Ludwig (8/26)
- Back to campus with AI: Learning from Denison AI Student Ambassadors (8/26)
- Synthetic Socrates, Teaching Assistant: How AI Can Restore the Philosophical Classroom by Jimmy Licon (4/26)
- Writing in the Age of AI by Regina Martin a series of articles in the CfLT Blog (2024-2026)
- From Time-Saver to Teaching Transformer: Harnessing AI’s Pedagogical Power by David Balch & Robert Blanck (2/26)
- I’m an AI Power User. It Has No Place in the Classroom by Geoff Watkinson (1/26)
- The Transparency Survey: A tool for reasoning about AI in writing by Brett Vogelsinger (11/25)
- Ask Your Students Why They Use AI by Ernesto Reyes (10/25)
- Stop assigning traditional essays by Scott Carlson (10/25)
- Teaching in the Age of AI by Nana Lee (9/25)
- AI in the Classroom: Panic, Possibility, and Pedagogy in Between by Demian Hommel (8/25)
- Beyond the Tool: Why True AI Literacy is About Critical Thinking, Not Prompting by Michael Wagner (8/25)
- Want to Engage Students and Strengthen Your Teaching in the Age of AI? Start with this simple strategy by Brielle Harbin (7/25)
- Artificial Intelligence and Critical Thinking in Higher Education: Fostering a Transformative Learning Experience for Students by Dr. Tina Evans (7/25)
GenAI Syllabi and University Policies
- Syllabi Policies for Generative AI Repository curated by Lance Eaton (10/26 + ongoing updates)
- AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training by MIT Ad Hoc Committee (8/26)
- University of Chicago’s Guidance on Social Sciences Collegiate Division: AI and our teaching (8/26)
- Spring 2026 Denison AI Policy Survey (1/26)
- AI at Denison Campus Resources
GenAI Questions and Broader Discussions
- A Chatbot-Free Childhood Will Be a Status Symbol by Dana Suskind (8/26)
- GenAI Training Course Pilot by FDPC Bellevue University (8/26)
- Thinking– Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender by Steven Shaw & Gideon Nave (1/26)
- What is a GenAI agent? by Anuj Gupta (12/25)
- Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search by Shiri Melumad (11/25)
- AI won’t replace you- but it will redefine what makes you valuable at work by Nazrul Islam (11/25)
- The Importance of Connection in the Age of AI by Jennifer Smith (10/25)
- How AI is Changing- Not Killing- College by Colleen Flaherty (8/25)
- 3 Ways to Save Yourself From AI’s Critical Thinking Decline by Alexander Puutio (8/25)