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The SIFT method is for quickly deciding whether a source is worthy of your attention. Its creator, Mike Caulfield, has c...
12/05/2025

The SIFT method is for quickly deciding whether a source is worthy of your attention. Its creator, Mike Caulfield, has created a preamble prompt GenAI called the SIFT Toolbox: https://checkplease.neocities.org/
Here is his blog post introducing it: https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/sift-toolbox-for-claude-and-chatgpt

Sensemaking with SIFT ToolboxExploring a different way to use LLMs SIFT Toolbox is a lengthy instruction prompt that outperforms unmodified LLMs in multiple dimensions. You paste it in at the beginning of a chat session (or add it to project instructions) to make the LLM act differently.With the pro...

New episode! Listen to Andrew Begel from CMU on scaffolding project communication, including for neurodivergent students...
05/05/2025

New episode! Listen to Andrew Begel from CMU on scaffolding project communication, including for neurodivergent students.

Students need to be taught how to communicate.

As we close out autism awareness month, here is a resource explaining the double empathy problem, which seems useful for...
28/04/2025

As we close out autism awareness month, here is a resource explaining the double empathy problem, which seems useful for both understanding neurodivergent people and teaching in general.

Dr Damian Milton discusses the theory of double empathy and the implications for practice

Here is a great blog post reflecting on changes in an alternative grading discrete math course. We especially appreciate...
21/04/2025

Here is a great blog post reflecting on changes in an alternative grading discrete math course. We especially appreciate the framing around changing things so students are really using the assessment feedback loop and AI is not breaking it.

What I learned by moving to a test-forward approach

The end of the semester is here or coming soon. Here are some grading logistic ideas that may make things easier for you...
14/04/2025

The end of the semester is here or coming soon. Here are some grading logistic ideas that may make things easier for you from a blog post by our host:

I consistently teach over 200 students at a time. Therefore, I heavily rely on autograders and teaching assistants (TAs) to grade…

Blast from the past! Have you had to deal with academic misconduct lately? We have an episode where we discuss with our ...
07/04/2025

Blast from the past! Have you had to deal with academic misconduct lately? We have an episode where we discuss with our guests their context, its impact, educating students, and how our thinking has changed.

What is academic misconduct and it's impact?

Our host, recently posted a blog post about her noticing one of her expert blind spots.Helping Students Connect the Dots...
31/03/2025

Our host, recently posted a blog post about her noticing one of her expert blind spots.

Helping Students Connect the Dots: The Power of a Class Plan Slide

While going through my mid-semester survey this semester, I discovered an expert blind spot in myself. One variation of an expert blind…

Here is a nice and quick podcast episode on listening skills from Cult of Pedagogy's podcast.
24/03/2025

Here is a nice and quick podcast episode on listening skills from Cult of Pedagogy's podcast.

These techniques are easy to learn and will make all the people in your life feel seen, heard, and understood.

Here's a podcast episode about a book on what AI can and can't do and how to tell the difference. We especially apprecia...
17/03/2025

Here's a podcast episode about a book on what AI can and can't do and how to tell the difference. We especially appreciated the point that AI is a very broad term (it's like only having the vehicle instead of bikes, cars, etc.), and we need to break down and be more precise about what kind of "AI" we are talking about.

Podcast Episode · The Next Big Idea Daily · 03/17/2025 · 15m

Here’s a useful framework to help think about how to use AI in student learning.
10/03/2025

Here’s a useful framework to help think about how to use AI in student learning.

In my latest article and podcast, I share a continuum for how we can think about AI integration in our educational institutions. Listen to the Podcast If you enjoy this blog but you’d like to listen to it on the go, just click on the...

Dr. Valerie Taylor from Argonne National Laboratory joins us in this episode to talk about mentoring in academia. Mentor...
03/03/2025

Dr. Valerie Taylor from Argonne National Laboratory joins us in this episode to talk about mentoring in academia. Mentoring, at its core, starts with asking questions and seeking advice, as opposed to finding a mentor. In this episode, we discuss the ins and outs of mentoring through Valerie’s many amazing stories from her career, from identifying what questions to ask and how to say no.

How mentoring starts with asking questions.

Here's a super short podcast episode on why and how to give lots of formative assessments.
24/02/2025

Here's a super short podcast episode on why and how to give lots of formative assessments.

Sponsored by Explore Learning . Watch a video version of this tip on Instagram. One of the best-kept secrets in teaching is that frequent quizzing leads to better learning. I’m not talking about formative assessment here — this is quizzing as a learning strategy. A growing body of research is sh...

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