by Michael Hernandez | Dec 10, 2025 | Instructional design, Updates
Hypothesis, UChicago’s tool for social annotation, now includes additional features to help instructors encourage deeper reading among students and set the stage for more meaningful class discussions. Users familiar with Hypothesis or other social annotation tools may...
by Michael Hernandez | Dec 2, 2025 | Pedagogy
“A reading list is both the heart that animates a course of study and the skeleton on which the course is built.” – William Germano and Kit Nicholls, Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything While students engaging deeply with...
by Michael Hernandez | Nov 6, 2025 | Generative AI
“Eventually, surveillance capitalists discovered that the most-predictive behavioral data come from intervening in the state of play in order to nudge, coax, tune, and herd behavior toward profitable outcomes. Competitive pressures produced this shift, in which...
by Michael Hernandez | Oct 15, 2025 | Generative AI, Pedagogy
“Empirical evidence supplied by several researchers indicates that a decision to adopt or reject a new idea is often not the terminal stage in the innovation-decision process. …At the confirmation stage the individual (or other decision-making unit) seeks...
by Michael Hernandez | Sep 5, 2025 | Generative AI, Pedagogy
“…AI mirrors amplify and normalize our biases, reinforce our most polarizing opinions and most aggressive stances, and boost the visibility of our most uninformed “hot takes:’ In doing so they reflect back to us images of human civic agency so...