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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 9h

#flashbackfriday this was me in 2019 giving a TEDX Talk. I was 19 at the time. Looking back, I would not want to book me after hearing that talk 😂. I've grown a ton and given dozens of (dare I say 100+) talks since then. What a time. My website has some pretty good stuff on it now: www.jdspeaks.com

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I plan to use this in an upcoming workshop I'm delivering on trauma-informed teaching. Here's why: Many traumatic experiences that happen in the classroom do so as a result of speed. More thoughtful-and less traumatic-interactions happen in our classrooms when we allow adequate time to think.

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Click the link in the comments for some trauma-informed teaching strategies to start the school year ⬇️. #teaching #k12 #highered

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This past Wednesday, I worked with Pre-K-8 teachers at St. Mark School in Catonsville, MD. I delivered a workshop on trauma-informed teaching as part of their teacher prep week. The workshop was the first in a three-part series of trainings, with the following two planned for September and October.🙌🏿

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Share two truths and a lie." "Give us a fun fact about you." Every college student has heard at least one of these icebreaker prompts before. I offer a lively alternative to repetitive, static class introductions. open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Education and Class @educationandclass.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What if campus supports for first-gen college students weren't mainly about learning to fit in and to catch up? What if first-gen students also learned about campus power networks sustaining exclusion and unequal opportunity? Sparked by @jordanhdavis.bsky.social ghost.edandclass.com/power-mapping/

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Learning Power

When I was an undergraduate, I did volunteer work with a remarkable 2nd grade teacher in an elementary school in a working-class neighborhood. The year before, the children had noticed that traffic o...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I’m deeply grateful for your reflections on my work! This piece shows how power mapping can be done at any education level and makes a great case for infusing into college curricula for first-gen students. Glad to be part of this conversation 🙌🏿

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My first ever piece in Inside Higher Ed was published this morning! In it, I argue that preparing students for life after graduation requires making our courses less—not more—like the workplace. #insidehighered #collegeteaching www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

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Corporate Classroom Cultures Don’t Serve Students (opinion)

It’s not helping their students.

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

How do we address an avalanche of AI slop without spending copious amounts of time scheduling and conducting one-on-one meetings with students? I give two options in this week’s article. I want to hear your strategies—share them below! open.substack.com/pub/unteachi... #cognitiveoffllading #ai

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

At Elon University’s 22nd Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, I'll be delivering a 20-minute session on co-creation and digital critical pedagogy! Click the link below to register for the in-person or online conference: www.elon.edu/u/fa/technol...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I'm thrilled to facilitate a workshop on co-creation for a global audience at UDL-CON International! Click the link below to register. www.cast.org/connect/even... #udl #conference #facultydevelopment

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

After months of struggling with co-creation, I’ve finally landed on an activity that any instructor can use to co-create an AI policy with students. Read more about my approach here: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If you’re a college instructor who’s looking to set clear expectations around AI use in your courses, then this week’s Substack piece for you. I’ve always tried to set expectations with—not for—students, and AI policies are no different. open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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An Approach to Co-Creating AI Policies with Students

What I'm planning to do in my course this summer

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Read this week’s piece about why AI writing scores shouldn’t be trusted: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

A floating laptop showing an essay with an AI writing score.

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It turns out that AI isn’t as inevitable as some are lead to think. Tech companies increase each other’s stock value through circular transactions that give the illusion of AI demand. Read more about how I’m resisting: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi... #ai #genai #highered

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Question for college instructors: What’s your approach to managing students’ personal device use in the classroom, and why? How do you communicate/negotiate those expectations? #collegteaching #teaching #highereducation

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Let’s stop and ask our students, “What do you think?” About AI (policies), about assignment formats, about their performance in the course. Implement their recommendations. Validate their insights. This is what student empowerment looks like #teaching #highered #facultydevelopment

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Our stances on technology—whether students should use generative AI and mobile devices in general—don’t actually matter as much as how we determine and enforce these expectations in our teaching. Read this week’s piece: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Brief Manifesto

Why technology-saturated classrooms need a more critical approach.

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Should classrooms mirror the workplace? When career preparation goes too far, and how to strike the right balance, in this week’s Substack piece: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Faculty are bringing corporate culture into the classroom. It's not helping their students.

Should classrooms mirror the workplace?

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

In celebration of #mlkday, I reflect on the powerful words of an 18-year-old Dr. King in his essay, “The Purpose of Education”, and what they say about higher ed’s current climate. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This is what I do it for ❤️. I’m so grateful to the Association of Faculties for Advancement of Community College Teaching (AFACCT) for inviting me to set the tone for their 36th annual teaching and learning conference. What a way to start the new year and new semester. #conference #keynote

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

As the opening keynote for AFACCT’s 36th Annual Conference, I shared an approach to setting learner-centered policies and expectations about technology with—not for—students. More conference fun tomorrow 🙌🏿❤️ #bmore #communitycollege #conference #facultydevelopment

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is an example of a personal device police that you might consider using in the Spring. It’s specific, transparent, and allows for discussion. What will be your approach to personal devices in the spring? #collegeteaching #highered #pedagogy #teaching #facultydevelopment

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Are students so addicted to their phones that the only way to eliminate classroom distractions is to ban them altogether? I tackle the question, and share two strategies for setting personal device expectations in classrooms: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Are phones harmful enough to justify stripping students of their agency by outright banning them? I explore answers in this week’s Substack article: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Beloved friends and colleagues! This week's article-about the over-professionalization of higher ed, and its impact on students—will be shared tomorrow (Thursday) morning. Subscribe today to make sure it lands in your inbox. Sign up here: unteaching.substack.com

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Read about how AI agents are already disrupting higher ed classrooms in my most recent piece: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Students and instructors can now use agentic AI browsers like Perplexity’s Comet and ChatGPT’s Atlas to complete and grade online assignments respectively without even needing to log into their LMS. Read more below: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Your Students' Secret Agent

Agentic AI browsers are yet another AI disruption, with immediate implications for online tests and quizzes

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Good teaching is unconventional teaching. To teach well, you have to go against teaching traditions that have been around since the 13th century. It sometimes requires winning over students who expect an efficient yet disconnected learning experience that involves consumption and recitation.

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This photo feels so refreshing, but I can’t put my finger on why.

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

For those looking for guidance on how to respond to students when their work appears to be AI generated. Hint: Plagiarism checkers aren’t as helpful as you think they are. Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Because plagiarism checkers are so unreliable, and because it’s nearly impossible to definitively prove that a student quoted or paraphrased AI without attribution, I don’t even bother accusing or investigating AI misuse. Here’s what I do instead: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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How to Respond to Cheating While Not Being A Jerk

A playbook for navigating academic plagiarism

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Read this week’s piece, “The Problem with Punisihing Plagiarism”, on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm looking for insights on how educators manage smartphone use and the rationale and effectiveness of their policies. If you would like to contribute to an exploration of this topic, complete the short survey linked below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Survey on Mobile Device Culture in Education: Classroom Smartphone Policies

Thanks so much for your interest this survey. I'm Jordan H. Davis, Faculty Development Specialist and author of Unteaching on Substack. My solo work involves analyzing cultural trends in education. Sc...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The most consequential talk I’ve given, for young people anxious, exhausted, and unsatisfied as they pursuit of their ideal careers. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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How We Should Talk To Young People About Career Choices

Podcast Episode · The Unteaching Podcast · 09/11/2025 · 54m

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This week, I wrote about Alpha School’s controversial AI-taught programs, and their implications for the future of K-12 education. ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Are Teacherless Schools Good for Education?

Parents pay Alpha Schools $65,000 for their kids to be taught by AI

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A syllabus pro-tip from a student I just spoke with: if a student needs to complete an assignment or task, and that task is listed in the “Couse Overview” or “Assignments” section of the syllabus, put it in read so it sticks out among the rest of the text in the syllabus 🔴👍🏿 Small things! #learning

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I’m writing to share a teaching methodology I’ve been tinkering with, a philosophy that undergirds all the approaches I’ve been encouraging instructors to adopt in their classrooms the past few years. Learn more about unteaching and all it encompasses here: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

AI developers benefit from a mental health crisis in which apathy, exhaustion, and isolation are all rampant. When we turn to the robots, you can trace it back to one of these three reasons.

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My most recent Substack post explains why the word “andragogy” is divisive, and how we can shift our thinking about the difference between adult and child education. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I think I figured out the AI academic integrity issue (well, at least in my courses…for now). open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

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How I'm Responding to AI Misuse

What should we do when students break our policies?

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Students accounting grim stories about their schools' anti-Al culture.

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Figured that would put a smile on your face 😂

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

For any educator wanting to engage students in responsible AI use this coming school year: open.substack.com/pub/unteachi...

A white background with text that reads, “When Students Create Their Own AI Policies: Eight high schoolers made their own rules for AI use. What they came up with might shock you.”

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

25 year old here 🙋🏿‍♂️ never used PFA before, because I don’t attach documents to emails (all share links to cloud-based files 😂)

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I spoke to a professor last week who said, “We start all of our projects and assignments in class. Everyone one.” His rationale: it avoids confusion about instructions and expectations, it supercharges the brainstorming process, and it reveals students’ task management and creative processes.

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I see exhausted people doing their jobs—airport and post office workers, business people, etc.—and feel the strong urge to walk up to them and say, “you’re off today. You can go home now.” If I could choose any superpower, it would be that.

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Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

An argument for eliminating participation grades 📝: If you believe that faculty should be assessing substantive work and measurable skills, then college instructors should focus on assessing the skills that students are practicing, not the mere fact that they practiced them.

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Why College Faculty Should Never Grade Participation

Participation is essential to learning, which is why you shouldn’t grade it

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