AI-aware teaching means understanding how AI impacts your course goals, assignments, and your students. Read the introduction to The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching, a guide that equips instructors with practical strategies for teaching effectively in the age of AI.
The Ultimate Scavenger Hunt: The Search for a New Public Speaking Textbook
Let’s be honest – there are no shortages of textbook options. As such, how do you know which textbook is fit for your course and students? While it may seem like a daunting task, whether you’re making an individual choice or reviewing for your whole department, there are ways to get a head start of the hunt for the perfect textbook.
From Page to Podcast: Teaching with The Norton Library Podcast
I’d taught with podcasts before, but those experiences hadn’t prepared me for my students’ absolute enthusiasm over The Norton Library Podcast, or for how they would be inspired to reinvent their own critical practices.
Using Pressure Bots in Asynchronous Online Classes
Synchronicity is the fastest, surest way to teach process because I can see things unfold in real time, with little to no filter. And yet, in my online courses, it’s a strategy that is mostly off-limits.
How Are Your Students Using AI? A Research Toolkit for Learning More About Your Own Students and AI
This post originally appeared on AI & How We Teach: A Norton Newsletter for AI-Aware Teachers. Discussions around students’ AI use tend to miss one important factor: what do students think of AI? Associate professor of English and facilitator of AI initiatives at the University of Pittsburgh, Annette Vee, PhD, surveyed her students to design curriculum that meets them where they are.
Using Generative AI to Promote Active Learning
For psychology professor Stephen Blessing AI use in the classroom seemed a given. Having worked with AI in education since the 90s, his goal remains the same: to ensure AI made students more active with their learning, not less. Read how you can use the latest tool in your educator toolbox.
Using AI as a Thinking Partner in PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS
Associate Teaching Professor of Economics Alpna Bhatia prefers to use AI unconventionally: to slow her students down. In our latest Norton Learning Blog post, Alpna guides you through best practices for making AI work for you and supplies two exercises from The Best of the Ultimate Guide to Teaching Economics.
How Personalizing Assessments Can Elevate Learning
When we design assignments that require a student’s unique lived experience, specific local context, and distinct cognitive process, we do more than just "AI-proof" our assessments—we create deeper, more meaningful learning experiences.
Students Decide Whether They Belong Earlier than You Think: Three Research-Informed Ways to Foster Academic Belonging from Day One
Strengthening academic belonging among your students early in the semester shapes not only how they experience your course, but how they see themselves as learners. Research professor and author Isis Artze-Vega, Ed.D. highlights three research-informed changes you can make to your classroom.
Your Syllabus in the Age of AI: A Practical Guide for Instructors
If you have spent time wondering how to write an AI policy for your syllabus, you are not alone. Generative AI has moved faster than most course design cycles, and many of us are being asked to make high-stakes decisions about tools that are rapidly changing and that our students are already actively using. In this fast-changing environment, the syllabus matters more than ever.