Aaron Miller

Aaron Miller

Weekly Digest - Sep 6-12, 2026

Here's what I published from Sunday, September 6, 2026 to Saturday, September 12, 2026: AI's learning penalty is avoidable I wrote recently that no homework is safe now, and that the right response is to treat homework as practice, not assessment for grades. Case in point:

AI's learning penalty is avoidable

I wrote recently that no homework is safe now, and that the right response is to treat homework as practice, not assessment for grades. Case in point: a 30-month study of 26,811 Chinese secondary students. When students adopted AI, homework scores rose 18% and homework time fell 30%

Shame Is Priced In

Having defended em dashes from the AI-shame brigade, you know where I stand on stigma as a strategy. Anil Dash makes the bigger version of the point: shame doesn't stop technology where its owners have accounted for it. What changes people is a better offer. Anil points

Focus Your Career on Progress

An excellent article on what happens when you orient your career towards progress. It’s written for career pivots, but has the kind of advice that can help college students in thinking about their first steps and all the ones that follow. A focus on progress is an active commitment

Weekly Digest - Aug 23-29, 2026

Here's what I published from Sunday, August 23, 2026 to Saturday, August 29, 2026: Assessing Students Who Use AI This week I gave a presentation to my college about assessment in the age of AI. Here's a written version of what I shared. AI eats all

Weekly Digest - Aug 9-15, 2026

Here's what I published from Sunday, August 9, 2026 to Saturday, August 15, 2026: The Near Future and Present Reality of AI Considering how I at least skim pretty much every single one of Zvi’s (very long!) posts, I don’t link to him enough. Here’s