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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m proud to be part of the group that helped draft these, and look forward to seeing how they are put into action.

Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hope that the MAA Statement on AI in Higher Education will provide a useful lense for thinking about how AI could impact teaching across the mathematical community as well as more specific guidance on how the community can support student learning during this time. #EduSky #ITeachMath

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Statement on AI in Higher Education – Mathematical Association of America

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

History says the panic phase ends. It also says to watch who funds the training. The winner of AI in education may not be the best model. It may be the best teacher network. Which half is your campus living through right now?

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

AI is running both plays at once. Students adopted it before institutions had policies. That's the 70s again. Meanwhile, the vendor partnerships and faculty training institutes look a lot like early 90s.

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Casio got squeezed to the margins of the American classroom for lack of a teacher network, not for lack of a good product. Round two was faster and calmer than the 1970s. The cost: a vendor with a seat at the curriculum table, and a calculator whose price never fell for 25 years.

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

TI funded curriculum projects, trained thousands of teachers through its T3 network, and co-developed textbooks. By 1995, the AP Calculus exam required a graphing calculator, with TI as the default in nearly every classroom.

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The graphing calculator came from the opposite direction. Casio built the first one in 1985, and arguably had the better hardware for the price. They had a full five year headstart on Texas Instruments, who launched the TI-81 in 1990. TI won anyway, by selling an ecosystem instead of a device.

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The faculty response went: ban them, then split courses into calculator and no-calculator sections, then quietly give up. The research showing calculators didn't hurt learning arrived in 1986. Fourteen years after the machines did.

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

1972: a handheld calculator costs about $400. 1976: it costs $20. Students carried them into exams before most math departments had any policy at all. Nobody decided anything. The machines just showed up.

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Higher ed has already run the AI adoption experiment twice. Both times the technology was a calculator, and the two stories ended very differently. A short thread on what 1972 and 1985 can tell us about 2026. 🧵

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A really great piece by Lew Ludwig. We are past the point of pretending AI doesn't impact our work as teachers, but, to use Lew's term, it is now the time to exercise our own agency and determine what it means to teach well in a world that includes AI. #iTeachMath #MTBoS #AIEd

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There and Back Again: What will we do with it? – Mathematical Association of America

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Preprint (EdArXiv): osf.io/preprints/ed... Interactive matrix: appstate.edu/~morrisqa/AI...

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

AI can now assess student work, but has no professional obligation to the student behind that judgment. I built a framework for what math instructors owe students there: ethical questions crossing AI's assessment functions against four principles of professional ethics. #MTBoS #AIEd #iteachmath

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Quinn A. Morris, Ph.D. @appstmathquinn.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Well, guess I’ll finally try this whole bluesky thing now…

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