Welcome to the AI Ready Blog, where we explore the evolving world of Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI in education, fostering dialogue, experimentation, and research to enhance teaching, learning, and collaboration across disciplines.

Note: Features may change with future updates.

As AI tools become more embedded in everyday academic life, digital citizenship has never been more important.

Being an ethical, informed, and responsible participant in the digital world means understanding not only whether or not to use AI, how to use it effectively, but also how to use it thoughtfully. Faculty and students alike are navigating questions about data privacy, authorship, misinformation, and transparency. These conversations are central to building trust and ensuring technology supports, rather than replaces, our humanity in teaching and learning.

AI Requires Caution and Care

While AI opens doors to creativity and innovation, it also raises complex challenges around expertise and judgment. As Punya Mishra writes in The GenAI and Expertise Paradox, AI actually makes expert work more important—but harder. Thoughtful engagement, critical reflection, and strong digital citizenship habits help us navigate this shifting landscape with integrity.

The most significant revelation, however, that while experts’ pattern recognition and domain boundary awareness help them navigate AI use, this navigation is surprisingly effortful. Traditional expertise research suggests that as skills become automatic, cognitive load decreases. Yet with AI, even experts report increased cognitive effort. This points to something new: the need to maintain dual awareness – of both domain principles and AI capabilities.

This leads us to a crucial insight: The real challenge isn’t just about expertise – it’s about the interaction between two different types of knowledge. Someone might be an expert in their field but not understand AI’s tendencies and limitations, or they might understand AI but lack the domain knowledge to properly evaluate its outputs. In today’s world, these can no longer be separate concerns. Just as expertise has always included understanding one’s epistemic tools – whether they’re statistical methods, measurement instruments, or research techniques – working with AI requires integrating it into our fundamental understanding of how knowledge work gets done.

Mishra, P. (2025, February 13). The GenAI and expertise paradox: Why it makes expert work more important but harder.

Upcoming Digital Citizenship and AI Events and Resources

10/21 and 10/22, Fall 25 Faculty EdTech Bootcamp: Digital Citizenship (view and share the flyer)
Stay tuned for updated speaker and session descriptions

Wed, Oct 8, 1:00 pm Authenticity in the Age of AI: Strategies for Real Student Engagement (Graham Johnson, GDL)

Wed, Oct 8, 4:00 pm Authenticity in the Age of AI: Strategies for Real Student Engagement (Graham Johnson, GDL)

Wed, Oct 29, 2:00 pm Exploring NotebookLM: An AI Research Assistant for Academic Work (Alan Cafferkey, EdTech)

Coming Soon

I’m excited to announce the launch of a new platform connected to The EdTech Bible (ETB), with a section dedicated to AI in education. The update to the new platform is expected to be live by 10/31. The addition of AI topics will be published at the end of the semester.

If you have been enjoying review access to the multimedia field guide, contact me to have access transferred.

I also welcome suggestions for topics you would like to see explored, whether at Fordham or on the ETB platform. And I am seeking expert speakers for future Fordham EdTech events and ETB workshops. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you are interested or have recommendations.

Join the Conversation

Fordham Faculty AI Interest Group

Explore AI’s impact on higher education, share resources and events, and engage in interdisciplinary conversations across the university. The Faculty AI Interest Group is a partnership between faculty and IT, collaborating to explore the evolving world of Artificial Intelligence in teaching, learning, and research. We meet monthly to share insights, tools, and strategies.

Contact: facultyai@fordham.edu and cc treglia@fordham.edu.

AI-Resilient Research Courses Faculty Group

A faculty led group that meets every month to share pedagogical ideas and strategies and develop some best practices to use this fall. As both Orit Avishai (Sociology) and Sarah Lockhart (Political Science) are teaching a senior thesis seminar this semester, they are especially interested in connecting with faculty who are teaching research intensive courses.

Contact: slockhart3@fordham.edu and avishai@fordham.edu

Together, these groups create a space to explore, discuss, and learn with colleagues across the university.

Open Café: Coffee, Clicks, and Questions

Drop in to my weekly Zoom session on Fridays at 3 p.m. to share ideas, ask questions, and reflect on the week. Get quick updates, enjoy five-minute demos of tools and strategies in action, get technical support, and wrap up the week with connection and conversation. For an invite email treglia@fordham.edu.

Curated Resources

Stay current on AI and educational technology trends with The Faculty AI Interest Group Magazine and the other articles I share on Flipboard.

Flipboard makes it easy to browse new research, teaching ideas, and tool updates all in one place. Join the upcoming Flipboard workshop to learn how to curate your own digital collection for teaching and research. See the Why Use Flipboard guide for more information

Modeling responsible AI use and strengthening our digital citizenship in an era of rapid change is essential to fostering trust, integrity, and ensuring that technology serves us and our students, not the other way around. Educators are needed now more than ever to guide the larger community in this journey.

Upcoming workshops

This moment is similar to the Wild Wild West days of the World Wide Web. Yet the technologies emerging today promise an even deeper and more far-reaching impact on society. The landscape is vast and still unfolding, and we are all explorers. Together, we can share our experiences, learn from one another, and navigate and hopefully shape the future.