Being real isn’t about the tool you use … it’s how you use it. — I see people get a lot of flak about using AI in their writing. It’s inauthentic, not honest, or makes you less of a human … especially if you autogenerate even 3 words. For example, Medium publications are asking for only “100% human writing” or the citation of any word…

So Medium is not the only place for educators to create … probably isn’t even the best place if we are being honest with ourselves. But I am convinced it is one of the best places to get started. After writing on Medium for several years now, I am committed…

Teachers have been using Choose Your Own Adventure, or interactive fiction (IF), in the writing classroom for a while now to teach coding. This semester I used IF in my AI & Digital Storytelling Class. Students learned that writing AI takes work … especially if you want to produce anything…

A ChatGPT prompt for textual analysis — We usually don’t have much time as students hand in their final work, which in my class is usually reflections on what they learned. I’m not going to lie … my tendency is to mark these off as fast as I can, so I can get on with the summer…

As a professor in the creator economy, I recently set an ambitious goal for myself: write on Medium every day for 30 days. The idea was simple: I wanted to challenge myself to write longer and more in-depth pieces than I normally do. I’ve taken part in probably 5–6 Ship30…

Welcome to the second monthly rundown for the Creator Classroom newsletter! I still have a lot of plans for this newsletter and the publication. You might notice already that I’ve changed our tagline. The only publication focused on helping educators create on Medium and beyond. I want it to be…

And use it like flint & steel instead — Prompt engineering isn’t just about getting AI to do what you want. It is about fostering interactions that encourage us to think and create in new ways. It's about fluidly moving back and forth in a collaboration between human and machine. To illustrate this, let me use a little poetry. AI & the Surrealist Mind …

I don’t really give finals … I just ask students to reflect on what they’ve learned. In fact, I don’t even give grades anymore. It might seem counter-intuitive, but I haven’t really found that “ungrading” decreases the quality of the reflections, because the quality has always been uneven. …

Like a thousand thoughts I’m not thinking —