Category: Teaching
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When You and Your Students Write the Book of Your Course (guest post)
Some people have the ability to look at a mess and see the makings of something beautiful.
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The Counterfeiting of the Humanities
In 2023, I attended an annual conference on the humanities. In a conversation over lunch, a program manager for a state humanities council, whose…
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You Don’t Need an AI Policy — You Need Two (guest post)
What will tell your students about whether and how they may use AI for work you assign?
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How to Justify an AI Ban in Your Classroom (Guest Post)
“I don’t want to be a cop in the classroom. So, it’s… important for students to come to the same conclusion themselves and understand…
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Opportunity to Volunteer to Teach Online Courses for Ukrainian Universities
A pair of philosophers have created a program through which people can volunteer to team-teach online courses at Ukrainian universities.
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If You Want Your Students Completing Their Coursework Without Help from AI…
…how do you make that happen?
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Teaching Under Hostile Conditions
“The many sources of harm and hostility we collectively face—as philosophers, as educators, and as humans—seem too numerous to name, let alone to seriously…
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Should Humanities Faculty Aim to Ban AI from Their Classrooms?
“Because of the ubiquity of AI technology, students will likely be using it persistently outside the classroom in their personal lives. The humanities classroom…
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Teaching Humanities in the AI Era: Is this the Bargaining or the Acceptance Stage?
“What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.”
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Here Come the AI-Powered Bot Students
“We didn’t use to have to decide if our students were human, they were all people. But now there’s this skepticism because a growing…
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Logic Meets Tetris in New Video Game
In his spare time over the past couple of years, philosopher Ivo Pezlar (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) has been…
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The Multi-Day In-Class LockDown Browser Essay Assignment (guest post)
Many professors in philosophy and other disciplines believe that having students write take-home essays is important. Essays give students the opportunity to spend a…
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Philosophers Develop AI-Based Teaching Tool to Promote Constructive Disagreement (guest post)
One way of thinking about the job of a philosophy instructor is that it’s about teaching students to disagree well. Yet when it comes…
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A Philosopher’s Reflections on Teaching in a World with AI
“I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the…
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Trying & Writing about New Teaching Methods: Does It Require IRB Approval?
A philosophy professor interested in writing an article about her experiences trying out new teaching techniques was told by her administration that in order…
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The Teaching of Writing in the AI Era (Updated)
“Every professor I know wasted countless hours of 2024 in the prevention or detection of AI-powered cheating. It is a miserable war of attrition…
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Philosophy of AI / AI Ethics Syllabi, Lessons, Readings
As artificial intelligence (or “artificial intelligence” if you insist) is put to increased use in an increased variety of ways, teaching about it has…
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Harness AI to Help Your Students Learn Basic Logic (and more) (guest post)
Michael Rota, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, has been using AI in his teaching, and is trying to make it…