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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 19h

Those are some quality cantileverers.

Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What does it take to help an entire faculty learn and adopt new teaching practices? Inspired by that MIT AI report, on the blog I share three principles for faculty development needed to scale AI-aware teaching from individual courses to an entire campus. derekbruff.org/2026/10/02/s...

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On my board game podcast today, I take a deep dive into the design of games that work across diverse ages and cognitive abilities with Dylan Kistler, a colleague from my Vanderbilt days. Dylan's new company, Kistler Games, specializes in such games! firstplayertoken.buzzsprout.com/2292265/epis...

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We had at least a dozen of these scholars at Vanderbilt back in the day! HASTAC was an incredible networking opportunity for our graduate students, especially those with an interest in the digital humanities.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The first two episodes are out, and I'm looking forward to listening. @anya1anya.bsky.social does great work, and this is an important topic.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, because this approach to grading sure has held back MIT over the years. 🫠

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love that Jack Smith reacts like a totally normal person. You can see him thinking, “Um, yeah, I would have to check my Google Calendar.”

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is not responsible journalism.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here’s some swag I haven’t received before—a robot-shaped stress ball from the Vandy School of Nursing’s AI initiative!

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Y’all, Vanderbilt School of Nursing is having me in for a talk, and they ordered piles of the new book! @anetv.bsky.social @marcwatkins.bsky.social

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Phillis Sheppard representing the Div School’s teaching mission well:

Sheppard mentioned that she's teaching spirituality and social activism, and wondered aloud what that could mean in the context of "A Declaration of First PrinciplesiẠạị
"What does that mean pedagogically?" She asked. "Are we just teaching students to think about spirituality and social activism? Do we intend that students graduate able to think critically but not respond to the ethical demands to be engaged actively? Do we think that upon graduation that will suddenly happen?
What is the relationship of this to our pedagogical aims?

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So the Divinity faculty aren’t sure why the school is in receivership. That’s a good sign. Sigh.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some of yesterday’s birds from Sarapiqui, Costa Rica. Three of these belong to families that don’t even appear in Tennessee! #birding

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Time for more birds from Costa Rica! I think I’ve picked up 75 lifers this trip. #birding

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First installment of photos from my Costa Rica #birding trip!

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We've been developing promising practices for responding to AI at the course level, but what about at the curricular level? Today on the podcast, we hear how UC Berkeley Public Health has been defining program-level AI competencies. intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...

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Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Physical copies of The Norton Guide To AI-Aware teaching have arrived! @derekbruff.bsky.social @anetv.bsky.social, and I wrote about approaches teachers can use to raise awareness about AI’s impact on learning. The guide is loaded with ideas to help students learn about AI, without AI, and with AI.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That time we had a four-day weekend and I had never been to Maine so we drove to Maine and back

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

To that end, have you found anyone using your drawn statement in a setting where they're trying to help students use AI effectively and intentionally? I'm guessing not, but I can imagine such a thing.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Of course, AI is marketed as that A-to-B path, but lots of technologies are marketed in ways we can often ignore. We can often do with the tech what we want to do with it, and if we're intentional about the ways we use AI, I think it can support creative processes.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What's curious about this drawn statement is that it doesn't explicitly mention AI. In an educational context, it could apply just as well to paying someone to write a paper for you. It also doesn't preclude the use of AI, as long as its use is supporting the indirect path toward learning.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The 2004 series, which I can’t believe is that old. Bear McCreary’s score is amazing.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm not really sure I could finish writing a book chapter without the soundtrack from Battlestar Galatica.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So Auburn's board decided this summer that they will have primary responsibility for the curriculum, even though (a) they lack the curricular expertise that faculty have and (b) Auburn's accreditor (SACS) requires faculty to have that responsibility. Things are not well at Auburn.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Episode 100 of my Intentional Teaching podcast is right around the corner! I would love your help making it a special one. What’s one idea or example or question or quote from an Intentional Teaching episode that you keep thinking about? Send me a message, email, or voice mail!

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fixing up the transcript for last week's episode. I thought that the acronym TEK was a challenge--AI transcribed it as "tech" about a hundred times in the episode--then I got to the Schitts Creek reference. #facepalm

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

TIL that I don't have to live with Windows Explorer's default column headings for folders full of MP3s. I knew you could edit columns for a specific folder--I didn't know you could apply to all folders with MP3s. Because my podcast recordings don't need "Album" or "Contributing Artists" columns!

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How can humanities courseshelp students develop the durable skills--communication, collaboration, adaptability--that employers want? Today on the podcast, I talk with three U. Kentucky faculty who have an answer to that question! Listen here: intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Um, isn't this a new form of CGI? It would be like giving Mike Wazowski an Oscar, instead of Billy Crystal or the Pixar animators.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The ad I got served on this story seems to show us the new seal.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by is now available as an ebook and later in September as a paperback! @anetv.bsky.social and @marcwatkins.bsky.social and I have pulled together teaching principles and practical examples to help you adapt to a world with AI. More info: derekbruff.org/books/

Cover of The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching showing the title and authors and a swirl of colors

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Over the past few years I’ve watched resentment grow as students complain that the things they’re learning to do at university are becoming increasingly detached from the external reality of the world of work.” generativehistory.substack.com/p/no-more-mu...

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No More Muddling Through

Why the détente between students and professors over AI will end in 2026.

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John Kane @johnkane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In today's Tea for Teaching podcast, @sarahesilverman.bsky.social discusses her new book, Classroom Mindscapes: An Introduction to Neurodiversity for Educators, which addesses strategies for supporting neurodivergent students. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/classroom-... @cyberthread.bsky.social

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Classroom Mindscapes | Tea for Teaching

Neurodivergent students bring varied strengths, needs, and ways of thinking to our classrooms. In this episode, Sarah Silverman joins us to discuss teaching strategies that reduce access friction, inc...

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yes! @johnkane.bsky.social had a great interview with a couple of the authors on the Tea for Teaching podcast recently: teaforteaching.com/453-prequest...

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453. Prequestions and AI – tea for teaching

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Credit to Michael “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming” Brown for that analogy, which he used to explain why a “dwarf planet” (e.g. Pluto) is not a planet.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Artificial intelligence” is to intelligence as “stuffed animals” is to animals. The one is inspired by the other while not being a type of the other.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This sounds a lot like the objections I heard ~15 years ago when university libraries started taking physical books and journals out of their facilities. Somehow we managed that transition. Maybe we can manage a transition from database search interfaces to LLM search interfaces? Maybe not?

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H. John Tran @johnhtran.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

MapQuest just beat ChatGPT. It’s the No. 1 free app in Apple’s App Store after refusing Trump’s order to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.” Google complied. Apple Maps still says Lake Ontario. I predict Apple will change it by September 30. MapQuest could say no. Apple can’t.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’ll second Liz… this is a fantastic review of the research on notetaking and its implications for teaching. Y’all, it’s complicated, but Sara presents a way forward.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This might have been the strongest version of guidance they could manage. I saw in the report a healthy subtext of faculty autonomy, and the report seems aimed at persuading individual faculty to approach their individual course design differently.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh gosh. The only one on the list I recognized was Ms. Rachel, probably because I have a four-year-old.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm reading and annotating the new MIT report on AI and education. Care to join me, via Hypothesis? hyp.is/go?url=https...

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This appears to be a fake screenshot. It’s not on TS for the day indicates.

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

MapQuest being the grown up in the room:

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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I have to assume that he has now fired these military leaders.

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