AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
AI for Me, Not (Yet) for Thee? Desirable Difficulties and Deliberate Friction with LLMs
In December 2025, I was grading final projects for my course on data visualization with R. On one of my screens, I had a browser open to my university’s learning management system and came across a now-familiar phenomenon: a student had used verbatim ChatGPT output for their assignment. The code they included was flawless, but used function arguments and code syntax that we never covered in class and that weren’t actually necessary. More concerning, the original chat prompt was inadvertently still included, along with fill-in-the-blank sections that the large language model (LLM) had included to help tailor the response to the course (e.g. “[insert an example from your professor’s class here]”). Following my course’s AI policy, I gave a sizable point reduction, sighed heavily, and moved on to the next assignment.
Jay Van Bavel, PhD on Twitter / X
Giving students unfettered access to chatbots can harm educational outcomesHaving AI access while solving problems significantly improves performance (48% improvement in grades for GPT Base and 127% for GPT Tutor).However, when access to AI was taken away, students actually… pic.twitter.com/2g8GJcoRya— Jay Van Bavel, PhD (@jayvanbavel) July 18, 2026
There's Something Fundamentally Wrong With LLMs
LLMs aren't trained on the "vast majority of speech," experts warn, a major blind spot that could have sweeping consequences.
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
Opinion | The Semester That Shook My Faith as a Professor
AI has taken something fundamental from the business of teaching and learning.
What Parents Need to Know About AI in the Classroom | Stanford HAI
From immersive learning and personalized tutors to lesson plans and grading, AI is everywhere in K-12 education.
Children of the Magenta Line
Why minimally guided AI does not work. Chatbots, novices, the automation of learning and the case for Alpha School
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
From Chalkboards to Chatbots : Evaluating the Impact of Generative AI on Learning Outcomes in Nigeria
This study evaluates the impact of a program leveraging large language models for virtual tutoring in secondary education in Nigeria. Using a randomized controlled trial, .
Kevin A. Bryan - Eight Rules for Teaching in AI World
How should university teaching change due to AI? A professor's job is to decide what to teach and how to present this material. The job of the course structure is to ensure students learn that content. AI presents three issues: the link between performance and student knowledge has been broken, students need to be able to use AI effectively in their future life, and AI should let us improve how much students learn. We need to modify our courses, our expectations, and our evaluations because of AI, but we can do so in a way that makes education more effective than ever.
AI Literacy Across the Curriculum
As you have no doubt seen, AI is becoming ubiquitous in our lives and in the technologies we use every day. Generative AI is no longer an experimental tool, but a deployed technology in many of the…
no slop grenade
Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves.
They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started
The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.
If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms
I think this recent post by AI industry CEO Matt Shumer is worth a read. In it, he basically explains how quickly LLMs (large language models) are evolving to supplant many developers and prog…
