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AAEL Labs: Building a Human Reader App in 29 Minutes

My partner Dianne Keck, KPA-CTP, SDC complained to me about her “Gwyneth Paltrow sounding” AI reading tool. More specifically, she was frustrated that the platform: • sounded unnatural…

I reviewed 122 AI-in-education papers this week.

Not one studied how people actually learn with AI. We’re measuring: • Performance • Efficiency • Outcomes But we’re ignoring: → What people do when they don’t know…

If Everyone Has a JARVIS, Does That Mean We All Become Tony Stark?

If Everyone Has a JARVIS, Does That Mean We All Become Tony Stark? That question has been on my mind lately as artificial intelligence tools continue to spread…

Building an AI Tool That Automatically Generates VALUE-Aligned Rubrics from Course Assignments

AAEL Labs: Building an AI Tool That Automatically Generates VALUE-Aligned Rubrics from Course Assignments Many instructors spend more time designing rubrics than designing the actual learning activity. What…

Turning Google Scholar Alerts into a Research Intelligence Pipeline

AAEL Labs #1 Turning Google Scholar Alerts into a Research Intelligence Pipeline Most researchers subscribe to Google Scholar alerts. Very few have a system for actually processing hundreds…

From Idea to App in 30 Minutes: Testing AAEL with a Blackjack Simulator

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of supporting my colleague Kevin McGourty, PhD and students in our spring residency in a series of lectures and activities at Avila University…

Humanities Degrees Wanted

A growing number of AI leaders are suddenly praising humanities degrees. That might sound encouraging for liberal arts programs. But it also raises an uncomfortable question. Are humanities…

Will AI Replace Teachers? Or Will Teachers Become Agent Principals?

As I continue my doctoral research in AI-Augmented Exploratory Learning, I keep coming back to the elephant in the room: If AI can build statistical models, explain regression,…

Premature Platformization and the Failure of AI-Augmented Learning in Higher Education

Higher education is moving very quickly to adopt generative AI platforms, dashboards, and tools. In many cases, institutions are committing real money, faculty time, and instructional redesign before…

AI Learning Is Happening Off the LMS and Most Institutions Are Not Ready

I completed a final paper for EDU 842 Mobile Learning on how students use mobile AI tools during moments of uncertainty or quick clarification. What stood out was…