Thinking
Essays, notes, and evolving ideas. This is a digital garden—some pieces are polished, others are still growing. Updated dates show when I last tended to each.
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From Model to Mentor: Embedding Cognitive Apprenticeship in AI Agent Prompts
A chapter in The Pedagogical Promptbook on designing—and rigorously evaluating—an AI tutor that teaches the way expert mentors do.
The Win Condition Problem
Why specifying what learning looks like is harder than it seems.
Designing for the Machine Learner
A new frame for learning design in the age of artificial intelligence.
A Generalist Renaissance
Thoughts on who will thrive in the age of AI
Using AI Is Design Work
On judgment, materials, and thinking well under uncertainty.
The AI Tsunami: Reinventing Education for the Age of AI
A six-part series exploring how higher education must transform in response to AI—from assessment to precision learning to institutional mission.
Getting Our Feet Wet: AI in Higher Education
A keynote exploring how institutions can navigate AI's transformation of teaching, learning, and quality assurance.
How to Improve Your Analytical Thinking Skills
On why analytical and creative thinking are deeply intertwined—and why thinking skills matter more than ever.
2U's Learning Experience Framework
Introducing an evidence-based approach to learning design, distilling decades of research into three elements: Feel, Do, and Think.