Another article that I read just now and that really resonated with me is Laidlaw (2026), where they explore teachers’ reactions to GenAI as an identity crisis, not a skills gap.
I remember learning about the “four ears” in Schulz von Thun’s model, where the same message (e.g. “there is not a lot of light here”) can be heard as stating a fact (“it’s dark here”), as saying something about the sender (“I’m uncomfortable when I cannot see properly”), as saying something something about the relationship […]
This is a really great book with lots of food for thought to reflect on teaching practices and bring more humanity into teaching. Since I have thought about trust and ways to build it quite a lot, as well as about inclusive (or even better, nonclusive) teaching and many related concepts, my notes below are […]
The central question in Kotz et al. (2026)’s preprint is about “understanding how to increase evidence-consistent beliefs and support for empirically grounded policy responses” on contested societal issues. They investigate whether conversations with LLMs can change peoples’ minds, and if so for what types of audiences it works best. They build on other research that […]
When LLMs were new, a participant in the Inclusive LU course I was teaching did a project where they explored using AI to generate podcasts about scientific articles to make them more accessible to the students. They generated a couple of podcasts on different articles and discussed the quality in terms of correctness but also […]
I always like studies that use authentic data from out in the wild. I think it is so elegant to look at what is happening in real life rather than trying to generate data and then having people not respond leading to too small sample sizes, people misunderstanding the question (which might also have been […]
I loved the book “Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality” by Tolu Noah (2025) so much when I read it last summer! I have very fond memories of sitting in my parents’ garden with the book, working through it by applying everything to a course I was preparing, so when I saw the invitation to […]
Feeling that you matter — to peers, staff, university — is important for student mental health. To really understand what it means for students to matter, Smith & McLellan (2026) analyze 155 respondents’ open-ended responses to the questions of describing situations where they felt that they did (not) matter while at university.
I am thinking about this for students in year 4/5 in the context of a sustainability course where we challenge them to question a lot of assumptions that they have met throughout most of their studies. We want a course-wide code of conduct, and then group contracts within each project group.
For a course I am currently planning, I had pitched using the “inner team” (“Inneres Team” von Schulz von Thun) as a method to reflect on personal and professional values and which ones come into play in different situations. I was thinking about using them on paper in a session where everybody works on their […]
Didn’t feel like I had time to go for a morning dip, but made the time and am glad I went, both because that’s always awesome and because it gave me the chance to listen to the episode “How college students make, keep and lose friends with Janice McCabe” on one of my alltime favourite […]
With the presence of AI, oral exams have made a strong come-back because it is harder to cheat on them. But they come with lots of problems, too: A lot of students struggle with anxiety that prevents them from showing all they know, it is difficult to assess fairly, and it is unclear whether oral […]
When I hear the term “vision”, I always think of the former german chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who is quoted as having said “people with visions should go see a doctor.” With that out of the way — sustainability science has recognized that positive visions about the future are “influential, if not indispensable, stimulus for change” […]
Teaching involves a lot of emotional labor — handling of our own and others’ emotions — especially when dealing with controversial or emotionally difficult course content, but also just in general because teaching is all about dealing with other humans. Emotional labor is also unequally distributed, with women, younger teachers, and minorities carrying most of […]
Most of the time when I have written about trust, it was about trust in the relationship between people. But trust also has other dimensions. For example, “Institutional Trust Load” according to Spencer (2026) describes trust which “is structurally relied upon to sustain administrative processes under conditions of ambiguity, inconsistency, or deferred resolution“. So trust […]
Just read this (3-page only, so check it out yourself!) article and think that it is super helpful! While we often talk about climate action as either an individual problem OR a structural problem, as behavior change OR technological solutions; in this paper it is clear that we need AND CAN DO all of the […]
