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Recommended by Rob Nelson

A newsletter that works through what's going on in generative artificial intelligence and higher education in the hopes of making things simpler and clearer about what it means for what to do next.

Practical advice and links to useful resources for teachers and administrators in higher education.

- Rob Nelson

Educating AI

By Nick Potkalitsky

Let's figure how to best integrate and implement generative AI into today's classrooms!

Nick is at the center of an online community of educators and writers dedicated to pragmatic approaches to understanding generative AI.

- Rob Nelson

Auraist: picking the best-written books of the month

By Sean

32K+ readers. Followers, please note that only free or paid subscribers receive our picks of the best-written books from US & UK prize shortlists & major reviews, & masterclasses by their (sometimes world-renowned) authors on prose style.

Interview-essays and other writing about the craft of prose with an emphasis on identifying excellent work produced by humans.

- Rob Nelson

Res Obscura

By Benjamin Breen

Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire. Also: AI in humanistic research and teaching.

Provides much needed historical context for the social and intellectual movements swirling around AI.

- Rob Nelson

Understanding AI

By Timothy B Lee

Exploring how AI works and how it's changing our world.

Independent writing about AI by a reporter knowledgeable about technology, economics, and public policy.

- Rob Nelson

The Absent-Minded Professor

By Josh Brake

Technology, education, and human flourishing. All through the lens of a prototyping mindset.

Thoughtful essays on the social impacts of technology from someone who builds and teaches technology.

- Rob Nelson

Engaged Education

By John Warner

Exploring student engagement to make better writers and learners. Presented by the team at Frankenstories & Writelike.org.

Warner is an incisive critic of what it means to write and teach in this moment of generative AI enthusiasm. He is always worth reading here and in Insider Higher Ed.

- Rob Nelson

Mathworlds

By Dan Meyer

Building better worlds for learning math.

Insight from an experienced educator skeptical about hype and thoughtful about what generative AI will mean for actual teachers.

- Rob Nelson