Hollis Robbins
@anecdotal
The best site on AI & education https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com. @UUtah @Princeton @Kennedy_School https://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u6043188/about
The answer to @jennfrey's concern about teaching wisdom from the past is to make it relevant to the future. Read Middlemarch in the lab, Aristotle in your flying car. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opi…
The main critiques I've been hearing are "too much surveillance," not "the quality won't be better." Yes this is the point. Under the current system the quality is poor but nobody checks under the hood, really. Students and taxpayers pay the price.
In which I set out a plan for delivering the CSU's GE curriculum by AI, from competency map to system architecture to project-based learning system to assessment, human mentorship, & governance/ethics protocols. It's all in the details. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-to-deliv…
It is as if all university administrators were on a Jumbotron.
The crisis of "belonging" on college campuses may have more to do with housing than with academics. Fascinating data here: substack.com/home/post/p-16…
I do wonder why my fellow humanists are anxious and abrasive about AI when humans remain the more interesting technology.
This. Exactly.
let's consider this dilemma from another perspective: if you are a runner, you run; if you run, it's because you choose to run, & are energized or in some way enhanced by running. if you ask at AI to run in your place while you just sit at home, to what purpose? either you run,…
When you're serious about fly fishing why would you notice a rattlesnake in your kayak. @DanRodricks pressdemocrat.com/article/news/r…
Sharing this gorgeous, gorgeous short story (award winning!!) by the always excellent @GKTolman. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty/t…
