Hi, I'm Josh Thorpe: Writer, learning developer, educator, artist, speaker, radio host, and lecturer at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Currently I have two books in development with Bloomsbury Academic: AI for Students 2nd edition, and Don't Study, Do Something, an unusual approach to study skills.
AI for Students: A comic-style book that shows how to use gen AI to think more, not less, in education. This approach says: AI isn't a 'tool'...it's an environment. Use it as a space for practice, learning, and creative thinking. And hang on to your humanity as you go.
Invite me to speak about or teach AI literacy or academic literacies... or work with me on a teaching, publishing, or other creative project. Get in touch at jt at joshthorpe dot com.
Work with me to:
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My paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, installations, and public works have shown internationally at venues such as David Roberts Art Foundation, London; 3A Gallery, New York; Power Plant, Toronto; CSA Space, Vancouver; Museo Napoleonico, Rome; and Open City, Lublin, Poland. He has recently completed a large-scale public work for the City of Toronto.
In 2011 I was one of five artists nominated to the Sobey Art Award Ontario list and one of three finalists for the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Award. I also wrote Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide, published by Art Metropole and The Unexpected, published by Swimmers Group.
Currently I have two books in development with Bloomsbury Academic: AI for Students 2nd edition, and Don't Study, Do Something, an unusual approach to study skills.
AI for Students: A comic-style book that shows how to use gen AI to think more, not less, in education. This approach says: AI isn't a 'tool'...it's an environment. Use it as a space for practice, learning, and creative thinking. And hang on to your humanity as you go.
Invite me to speak about or teach AI literacy or academic literacies... or work with me on a teaching, publishing, or other creative project. Get in touch at jt at joshthorpe dot com.
Work with me to:
- integrate gen AI into teaching to promote, not degrade, learning, as well as develop adaptive long-term resilience in response to disruptive changes in education
- use UX design and accessibility principles to improve performance and experience for diverse students
- develop critical digital literacies for humane uses of technology
- rethink the practice of writing through innovative material and social approaches
- strengthen academic literacies in the creative disciplines
Learn more about
- AI for Students at PromptlyBooks.com
- learning design for higher education's hidden curriculum at UniversityMaterial.com
- experimental music radio show at UnusualMusicExchange.com
- my drawings and paintings
- The Opportunity of Constraint: How beating one's head against a wall can open a door
- Various articles on AI and education
My paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, installations, and public works have shown internationally at venues such as David Roberts Art Foundation, London; 3A Gallery, New York; Power Plant, Toronto; CSA Space, Vancouver; Museo Napoleonico, Rome; and Open City, Lublin, Poland. He has recently completed a large-scale public work for the City of Toronto.
In 2011 I was one of five artists nominated to the Sobey Art Award Ontario list and one of three finalists for the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Award. I also wrote Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide, published by Art Metropole and The Unexpected, published by Swimmers Group.