Do AI tutors dream of electric students?
Understandably there is a lot of talk around AI tutors as a way of designing a new interaction layer on AI that shapes its processes of predictive continuation toward pedagogy rather than helpfulness. Or something like that, in a nutshell. If we envision AI tutors as attached to a discipline or a particular course, then…
the friction embedded in AI educational designs
I’ve written a few times recently on the concept of friction(less) pedagogy and learning in relation to AI. At the end of Rhetorics of the Digital Nonhumanities, I devote a chapter to pedagogical design, particularly in relation to Rittel and Webber’s wicked design problems. For a number of years, EDUCAUSE’s Horizon Report employed this concept.…
CurrAIcular design
Yes, the AI is jammed in there. This is the May 2026 edition. It is interesting to see how our views develop on these matters. I know mine have shifted. Frontier AI’s has created a great deal of cultural instability, particularly in relation to higher education. Gen AI fundamentally undermined how students learn and faculty…
The conscience of AI refusal.
Last month at the Conference for College Composition and Communication, the national conference in the discipline of rhetoric and composition, the following resolution was passed “we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom.” The resolution articulates several concerns that I would…
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Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence 