It’s totally normal to bring a 3D printed model of the panopticon to class, right?
26.02.2026 21:19
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It’s totally normal to bring a 3D printed model of the panopticon to class, right?
One of my hopes for AI in our curriculum is we help students recognize when not to use.
Short answer: Honestly, I had not considered it because I build a pretty clear line around not using AI for these kinds of things. Also, I am trying to remake this class to be less generic and that’s what AI would deliver—average but uninteresting.
Yes, always.
I would appreciate anything you are willing to share
Yes. I already teach a course that covers a ton of this, but there will be a place for both algorithms and platforms
Starting broad and will narrow as I design the course.
Yes.
Everything from traditional media industries, the move to streaming, new media, social media, generative AI, gaming. Nothing is out at this point.
Academic Folks: I’m teaching a mass media class next semester. It’s been a long time. Does anyone have suggestions for textbooks or syllabi they would share? 300 level undergraduate course.
“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
I’m grateful to share that I received a Dean’s Special Award for Professional Excellence for my work integrating AI into the Magis Core Curriculum at Creighton.
I got to see the best in my colleagues during this process and I appreciate just how engaged faculty were in this difficult conversation.
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Happy last night of Hanukah
Hospital: We sent it to our legal team. Resolution could take up to 2 years.
Sigh. Guess I need a lawyer.
Hospital: Files appeal via third party company.
Insurance: Claim denied. Those were not really complications. You just took a few extra hours waking up from anesthesia and needed prolonged mechanical ventilation.
Me: Ummm?
Insurance: That’s better.
Me: Goes into surgery and is anxious about insurance. Has rare complication, wakes up in the ICU. Spends a night there and then fully recovers.
3 Months Later…
Insurance: Ope you were in-patient so we are denying your claim.
Doctor: Ummm complications. ICU!
Where I’m at right now…
Doctor: You need surgery. It’s in-patient and you will probably spend 1-2 nights in the hospital.
Insurance the last business day before surgery: Sorry, pre-auth denied. We consider this out-patient.
Doctor: Fine we will make it out-patient but it’s not best for patient.
Even if we accept the notion that AI increases productivity, increased productivity doesn’t mean increased learning. Quantity isn’t quality.
My latest AI hot take is that AI will probably make college harder in the long run. Harder to teach, harder to grade, harder for students. That will probably make the grade inflation crowd happier, but I worry it will create an accessibility apocalypse for students. That’s a huge problem.
Right now I feel like AI “knows” too much to be useless and too little to be useful. It is just powerful enough to tempt us to our doom.
Check your kid’s Halloween candy this year. A tech bro tried to hide AI in my child’s candy bar.
I think this is especially true for unstructured and unsupervised uses like independently clarifying concepts, creating study materials, and [shudders] summarizing readings. Some of the harms here might end up being more acute than the so-called end of the essay.
At the moment I feel strongly that need to respond to generative AI in higher education is its inevitability and not possible educational benefit. I just don’t see the gains in learning yet outside of very specialized cases.
Have we settled on a specific translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric? Asking for a friend.
“The technology is producing a generation of eternal novices, unable to think or perform for themselves.”
Which is to say, it will be what David Lyon calls liquid surveillance. It will melt into existing systems to the point where we stop seeing it as separate or disruptive technology.
My hot take is that generative AI’s impact for most people will be mundane rather than revolutionary.
So people supposedly concerned about government overreach are going to buy the Dear Leader branded gold spying device