As a Geese fan I thought their choice of songs for SNL was a deliberate challenge/minor act of self-sabotage to thwart the hype. Personally, I approve. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/a...

Greg Bovino on CNN is just beyond infuriating. We cannot have a country when our officials lie like this in the face of overwhelming evidence in front of his face.

The University of Texas has decided that teaching is not something they're interested in supporting. Learning itself is apparently now part of unacceptable "DEI." www.chronicle.com/article/ut-a...

Convinced the only people who are going to be at these screenings will be journalists writing about how no one is attending these screenings.

Great illustration of something I've seen over and over as I've travelled talking about genAI and learning. Students want experiences that have them interacting with each other and that help them figure out their own lives. They crave agency. We can give it to them. (This was true pre ChatGPT too.)

Rubio who made a career for himself by decrying Cuban representation knew that he was deporting people for protected speech and tried to do it anyway

Love the perspective that LLMs give us a chance to STOP bullshitting each other. If a requested communication can be convincingly generated by an LLM, is it the responsibility of the requester to investigate why bullshit serves? In uneven power relationships, maybe.

It strikes me that a central flaw to this argument that "professors feature the future" based in faculty distrust/rejection of MOOCs is that MOOCs turned out to NOT be the future. AI is likely different, but saying "it's the future" doesn't mean much. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

I've seen reports via social media and my email about students using AI on their personal statements for grad programs. This is an opportunity to rethink the what and why of the writing we ask for in these situations. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This is the person who had rooftop snipers overseeing student protests, if I recall correctly. www.wfyi.org/news/article...

Evil. "Liam’s middle-school brother returned home to a missing father, a missing little brother and a terrified mother." The family's active asylum case "has no order of deportation...Why detain a 5-year-old? You can’t tell me that this child is is going to be classified as a violent criminal.”'

This now has the most downloads in the first 30 days of any episode since I started the pod. It got there in 14 days.

Tutoring and teaching are not the same thing.

These euphemisms the Times uses for Trump’s maniacal behavior are just ridiculous. A “penchant for unpredictability”?

The NCAA had a chance to do the right thing and share the pie with athletes in a way that might've forestalled this process, but that ship has sailed and now that people see how much $$$$'s can be made for everyone involved there's no going back.

Where I think big revenue college sports is going: 1. Teams are independent entities that license the name/logo/facilities from the university. 2. Some portion of the "scholarship" athletes will be exempted from even the current pro forma attendance of school. They will be pro athletes...

That Baker lady is way less optimistic and thinks some real Truth and Reconciliation moves will be necessary

This is one (just one) reason why writing novels is so hard. A. Can I even do this? Maybe not. Should I stop? No, can't. Maybe this wasn't a good idea. It was a good idea. B. This is fun. This is not fun. It's getting fun again. Oh god this sucks what am I doing. OK, I figured it out.

Something I came to realize in helping students write these sorts of statements is that they generally have no idea what the purpose of such a statement is beyond the very general "impressing" the people doing admissions. It's so abstract they struggle and now there's a tool that eases the struggle.

Excited to see co-founder and former @insidehighered.com editor @douglederman.bsky.social putting his decades of experience into a new column. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Profoundly mature take from 7th grader Micha on EdTech (and some FOSS alternatives) that points toward the need for schools to own their tech, not just rent it. #education #edusky #teachersky #FOSS #edtech

Yeah, the thing is, Weiss had complete editorial control over the Free Press for years and if you read it you would not understand the threat to American society that Trump poses. I don't care what she says privately to her friends. She got the CBS job because of this acquiescence to Trump.

Students know what’s up. This sharp seventh grader raises the obvious question about what teacher use of AI implies for student usage.

Seriously, schools should hire this 13-year-old as a consultant. He knows his stuff.

TLDR: “I don’t know what school was like before all of these tools, but I don’t necessarily feel like any of them really help me learn.”

"For all the K-12 Systems Administrators reading this, maybe think twice about the tools you’re paying thousands of dollars a year for. Are they the best options — not even from the students’ perspectives, but from the teachers’ perspectives?" THIS

I second John’s recommendation

I highly recommend educators of all stripes read 7th grade Micha's reviews/impressions of the edtech that he uses in his day-to-day activities for school. micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/is-educati...

Period.

Pretty much every article I read about "integrating" AI into the writing classroom brings me back to the conclusion I work through here: We should teach writing, not document production. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The experience of reading Natasha Stagg’s new, unsparing and emotionally raw coming-of-age novel, “Grand Rapids,” made me realize that I may have an overly nostalgic, too rosy view of the coming-of-age genre, writes the Biblioracle.

Campos on Mandery on the "University" of Austin www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/the-...

I found this article about writing instructors creating chatbots for their courses interesting. They report, of course, mixed results. But I think the idea that since students are using chatbots anyway, we might as well create useful ones is flawed. /1 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/n...

Not quite "get out of jail for free," but very much like "get out of jail for a couple million for Trump." Not sure where this ranks in terms of the overwhelming corruption of this presidency, but it's got to be up there.

"Amanda reported on tactical fashion. It is harder to pull your hair if it is in a neat mom bun. Light layers keep you prepared to flee. She’ll find out where the soccer coaches get their whistles."

When UATX craters maybe they can move this to the halls of CBS News, provided Weiss is still working there, which seems no sure thing at this time.

Every word of this is just delicious.

i’ll say it again, jennings is a contemptible liar and it is a disgrace that CNN puts him on television every night to spread bullshit

A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

Vanderbilt charting the course of the MAGA accomodationist university to increase revenue and prestige. They're the CBS news of higher education. www.chronicle.com/article/as-o...

Absolutely definitive video analysis of Renee Good killing here. Look at the image framed in red. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/how-donald-t...

America has tried to be a real multiracial democracy for just over 60 years and that attempt has been contested at every step along the way. The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

I got a lot to say about this study and no time to say it, but any time someone thinks using AI is helping students learn writing it is likely to be the opposite and rooted in a view of what learning writing is like that must be challenged and revised. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

I go further: when someone claims AI helps students do something, they need to actually show what that is and why AI was helpful. Here, it seems to fill in the gaps from an education system that doesn’t teach basic language skills. It “helps” but is really just another form of outsourcing learning.

Prof. Baker becoming an IHE regular is great news for anyone who wants to be more informed about what's happening inside and beyond our higher ed institutions.

For all the folks who insist that AI can be a great part of a student writing assignment: Which part of the writing process do you think is unnecessary for students to experience?

Regarding “The War on Protein,” so much of the dietary advice I’ve read in my adult life has been a variation on this McSweeney’s column from last year. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

I find myself conflicted about this piece. On the one hand I'm cheered that it reaches the same conclusions that I posited in the immediate aftermath of the release of ChatGPT that we must preserve student agency. OTOH... www.chronicle.com/article/im-a...

This is an indicator, not a cause, but thwarting the attempted authoritarian takeover will ultimately require mainstream outlets to not call this a "feud," but instead an attempt at intimidation in order to seize unconstitutional and extralegal power. Not there yet.