Course design
The Focus Classroom
A reduced-distraction room used one day a week to protect thinking, paired with open days for learning with digital tools and AI.
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01Analog Responses to AI
Protect attention · preserve process · recover presence
A gallery of low-technology and no-technology practices that make thinking visible. These examples treat analog work not as retreat, but as intentional course design.
A faculty lensWhere does your course need beneficial friction—and where would digital assistance genuinely return time or access to students?
Writing process
The Analog Sandwich
Mark Marino’s semester moves from AI-supported writing, to an unplugged paper-and-pen unit, to deliberate student choice.
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Close reading
How to Take Notes
Danielle Carr models handwritten, two-color notes that separate an author’s claims from a reader’s questions and reactions.
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Human connection
Narrative Interviews
Jess Batychenko’s oral-history practice makes deep listening, consent, dialogue, and human memory central to research.
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Visible process
Process-Based Workbooks
Scaffolded paper workbooks make a learner’s path visible through sketches, reflection, revision, and feedback over time.
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Trust & dialogue
Playful Confessions
Maha Bali’s compassionate conversation invites students to discuss how they actually read, worked, and used AI—without shame.
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Faculty reflection
How do I balance the efficiency of AI with the value of struggle, time, and human conversation in student learning?
Name one learning outcome that improves when students slow down, make by hand, or work face-to-face.
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“The first step in learning is humility.”
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Scholarship behind the practice
Use these readings to test the examples against research, values, and lived classroom experience.
Marc Watkins
Rhetorica: writing on AI and education
Ongoing arguments for AI-aware teaching grounded in human judgment, attention, and transparency.
Read source ↗Mark C. MarinoThe Analog Sandwich (how it went)
A reflective account of moving an advanced writing course from AI use to five unplugged weeks and back again.
Read source ↗Maha BaliPlayful Confessions
A compassionate classroom conversation that replaces suspicion with curiosity about students’ actual AI practices.
Read source ↗Document your learning
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