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Student AI use: Stupid, sneaky, and skillful

Joseph Reagle — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Another academic year concludes in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). The chatbots are certainly more capable: ChatGPT 5.4, Gemini 3.1, and Opus …

Wikipedia 10K Redux, revamped

Joseph Reagle — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Back in 2010, I wrote a small Python 2 script to reconstruct the first 10,000 Wikipedia contributions; they had been lost, but Tim Starling …

Reviewing students’ version histories for AI

Joseph Reagle — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500

This semester I required students to share the version histories of their writing.

All assignments submitted to Canvas must have an appendix with a link …

Using AI well: My AI prompts

Joseph Reagle — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400

After two discussions with colleagues this week, including as a panelist on WikiEdu’s webinar on Gen AI and the Wikipedia Assignment: Challenges and Opportunities …

Accepting Feedback from Word/GDoc Users as Markdown

Joseph Reagle — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

When I ask people to give me feedback, I’d like them to work with whatever format or app is most convenient to them. I …

Claude is HAL: AI blackmail and murder

Joseph Reagle — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400

In their new paper, Anthropic identified a number of scenarios in which current models would harm people in ways reminiscent of HAL 9000, from Arthur …

AI: learning, teaching, and dishonesty

Joseph Reagle — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400

I love learning, and AI is an excellent tool for that—though we must be wary of hallucinations and verisimilitude. I love sharing what I …

Teaching and AI: Processes and products

Joseph Reagle — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400

2027 is the year I often think about. AI will be extraordinarily smart by then. Generation alpha will have come up through high school using …

AI and revision history in student essays

Joseph Reagle — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400

After moving exams online during COVID19, I’ve moved them back to the classroom. AI has rendered the online take-home exam useless. In a few …

A history of the advice genre on Reddit

Joseph Reagle — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500

A new paper, and the first in work that will result in a book, chronicling the emergence of the advice genre on Reddit.

Reagle, J …