Productive Friction: What Universities Must Protect in the Age of AI
One of the readings that my students always pick as their favorite lesson about digital media economics comes from the late 1990s when Google engineers
One of the readings that my students always pick as their favorite lesson about digital media economics comes from the late 1990s when Google engineers
Sometime in late September, nearly every instructor meets the same moment. A submission arrives that is fluent, organized, grammatically clean—and strangely weightless. The question that rises first is the obvious
Across higher education, artificial intelligence has rapidly changed how students complete academic work. Essays, summaries, explanations, and structured problem-solving can now be generated instantly. The
In a world of instant content, the value of learning lives in how students think, apply, and transform understanding over time. The recent attention around tools
The education landscape is undergoing profound transformation as artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming more accessible and powerful. The days of paying someone to write
Many college instructors are encountering a familiar classroom dynamic: students arrive able to discuss the “main idea” of a reading, but struggle to point to specific passages, explain
When The Atlantic asks how far colleges should go to limit AI’s harms, Tyler Austin Harper answers: as far as it takes—even to campus-wide device bans,
When I began teaching graduate-level courses in educational leadership early in the COVID-19 pandemic, my classroom existed entirely online. I quickly learned that keeping students
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