Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher education

AI-Aware Teaching in Political Science with Eric Loepp

Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. The ebook version of my new book, The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching, co-authored with Annette Vee and Marc Watkins, is out! To celebrate its release I’ve interviewed a few of the faculty whose AI-aware teaching we highlight in the book, and I’m excited to share another one of those conversations here on the podcast today.Eric Loepp is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater and co-director of Whitewater’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Learning, Scholarship, and Technology. Eric is passionate about teaching political science—something that comes through loud and clear in our interview. He’s also had to figure out a variety of AI-aware teaching practices in the last few years in response to generative AI’s impacts on learning—and on our political discourse. In our conversation, Eric shares some very concrete and AI-aware assignments and learning activities that will, I think inspire you as you adapt to AI in your teaching. Episode ResourcesEric Loepp’s websiteSupport the showPodcast Links:Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff.Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribeSupport Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteachingFind me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference. 

Teaching AI Literacy with Susan Ray

Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Susan Ray is associate professor of English at Delaware County Community College outside Philadelphia. Susan teaches a mix of on-site and online composition courses, and she’s been redesigning her teaching for a few years now in response to generative AI. We highlight some of her teaching practices in our new book, The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching, including an AI-integrated syllabus activity. In my conversation with Susan, we talk about that syllabus activity, as well as the AI transparency journals she asks her students to keep during her courses. We also talk about how her personal background prepared her to navigate the challenges and opportunities that AI has posed to her teaching, how she approaches assessing student learning in this age of AI—especially in her online asynchronous courses—and much more.Episode ResourcesSusan Ray’s SubstackSusan Ray on LinkedIn“I Embraced AI in My Community College English Class—and My Students Loved It!”, Susan Ray, EdSurge, July 21, 2025, with details about Susan’s AI-integrated syllabus activity“Technological Privilege, AI, & the Fourth Literacy in the Classroom,” Susan Ray, Susan’s Substack, February 28, 2026Support the showPodcast Links:Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff.Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribeSupport Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteachingFind me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference. 

AI-Aware Teaching with Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff

Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. It’s book release week! The ebook version of The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching publishes on July 1st, the day after this episode drops. I am very excited to have this book, co-authored with Annette Vee and Marc Watkins, out in the world! I wanted to put the spotlight on the new book, but I didn’t want to have to interview myself, so I asked my colleague and friend Stacey Johnson to interview me, Annette, and Marc about the book. Stacey and I worked together at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, and she’s now the director of learning and engagement for the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. I'm happy to share that wide-ranging interview in this episode. Thanks, Stacey!You can order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching ebook through Norton, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever you get your ebooks. The ebook will be available for free to faculty who have adopted Norton textbooks--contact your local Norton representative to get access.If you would like to order multiple copies for a campus reading group or some other faculty development effort, Norton offers a significant discount. To take advantage of this offer, contact Peter Wentz at pwentz@wwnorton.com with subject line “Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching.”Norton is hosting a launch party for the book on July 8th at 1:30pm Central. It's free to attend, and you can register here. Perusall is hosting an asynchronous book club for the new book from July 6th to August 2nd on their social annotation platform, and you can find out more about that here.Episode ResourcesStacey Johnson's blog and LinkedIn pageAnnette Vee's blog and LinkedIn pageMarc Watkin's blog and LinkedIn pageSupport the showPodcast Links:Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff.Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribeSupport Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteachingFind me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference. 

Study Hall with Flower Darby, Josh Eyler, and Regan Gurung

Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Study Hall is back! This is the format where I talk to three fantastic guests about three recent studies on generative AI in higher education. Guests for this edition of Study Hall are: Flower Darby, incoming director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Estrella Mountain Community College; Josh Eyler, senior director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and assistant professor of teacher education at the University of Mississippi; and Regan Gurung,  professor of psychology at Oregon State University.Episode ResourcesSTUDY #1Kestin, G., Miller, K., Klales, A., Milbourne, T., & Ponti, G. (2025). AI tutoring outperforms in-class active learning: An RCT introducing a novel research-based design in an authentic educational setting. Nature Scientific Reports, 15, 17458. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97652-6STUDY #2Lodge, J. M., and Loble, L., (2026). Artificial intelligence, cognitive offloading and implications for education, University of Technology Sydney, https://www.uts.edu.au/news/2026/03/experts-warn-unstructured-ai-use-in-schools-risks-cognitive-atrophy/contentassets/ai-cognitive-offloading-and-implications-for-education.pdf STUDY #3Wadinambiarachchi, S., Kelly, R., Pareek, S., Zhou, Q., & Velloso, E. (2024.) The effects of generative AI on design fixation and divergent thinking. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 380, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642919 Flower Darby's website: https://flowerdarby.com/Josh Eyler's website: https://josheyler.wordpress.com/Regan Gurung's website: https://regangurung.com/Study Hall 2025 with Lance Eaton, Michelle D. Miller, and David NelsonSupport the showPodcast Links:Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff.Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribeSupport Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteachingFind me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference. 

AI and Cognitive Offloading with Leon Furze

Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. On the podcast today, I talk with author and consultant Leon Furze about the ideas found in some of his recent writing on AI and learning. We talk about resistance as a framework for combatting cognitive offloading, the mental models that educators and students have of working with AI (and how they can lead us astray), and classroom activities that can help students build the kinds of expertise they need to use AI effectively.Episode ResourcesLeon Furze’s websiteLeon Furze on LinkedIn“Resistance as a Framework for Combating Cognitive Offload,” Leon Furze, March 22, 2026“IYKYK: How Do We Know What AI Can Really Do?”, Leon Furze, March 18, 2026“Resistance Training Toolkit: Expertise,” Leon Furze, April 22, 2026“On the Sensibility of Cognitive Outsourcing,” Derek’s take on that MIT study, July 7, 2025Lodge, J. M., and Loble, L. (2026). Artificial intelligence, cognitive offloading, and implications for education. University of Technology SydneyCorbin, T., Tai, J., and Flenady, G. (2025). “Understanding the place and value of GenAI feedback: A recognition-based framework.” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 50, 718-731“It’s time to move past the notion of AI as an answer machine,” Derek’s elaboration on Leon’s comment about mental models of AI, May 15, 2026Support the showPodcast Links:Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff.Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribeSupport Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteachingFind me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.