AI for Students: Creative hacks for academic success (an illustrated guide)

Most people get gen AI all wrong. They treat it as a content mill. Try using it as an environment for thinking and learning. Learn to use gen AI to think more, not less. Check out AI for Students on Amazon or learn more at PromptlyBooks.com. Contact Josh if you have no Amazon account or wish to arrange bulk purchases.

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This book is great! I really like the gentle humour and the illustrations. It has just the right tone, structure, and content to help students get to grips with AI as a learning tool. —Steve Rolfe, Lecturer, University of Stirling

Articles and speaking
2024
AI’s not a genie in a lamp: It’s a space to think, article for Inside Higher Ed, Jan 2025
AI isn't a 'tool'; it's an environment, article for WONKHE, UK
Healthy gen AI in high schools, article for TES.com, a publication for teachers
What's the deal with chickens: Creative use of AI in education, article for Association for Learning Developers in Higher Education, UK.

2023
"The real risk of generative AI is a crisis of knowledge" an article for Wonkhe
Unusual Music Exchange, a series of discussions for radio broadcast on ResonanceFM, London
University Material, an online resource for academic support for students of university and college

2021
Fun & Games, talk at  LSAC 2021 National Conference, Concordia University
Text is Material, talk at Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes, Oslo Metropolitan University

2019
​A Crit of the Crit, Momus, Sept. 12, 2019
"The Opportunity of Constraint," talk at Writing & Well-being Conference, NUI Galway

2018
"Bagpipes Blew My Mind," Musicworks, December 2018
"Tap Dancing in the Sand," SPAMzine, October 2018
"Text as Material," talk at Jot, Glasgow, August 2018
"A Pile of Dirt," Momus, August 29, 2018.
"Piles of Dirt and How to Talk About Them," talk at CCA Glasgow, June 2018.

2017
Interview with The Cultural Landscape Foundation.

2016     
The Unexpected, w/ Emily Smit-Dicks, Swimmers Group book

2014    
“On Printed Matter,” C Magazine, Summer 2014
“Maura Doyle’s Pots Recast Perception,” Canadian Art Online, June 27, 2014

2013     
A dog at sea, Beaucagearts Press book
The House, Beaucagearts Press catalog
“The Two Booms: Toronto’s Highrise Booms, Past and Present.” Satellite Magazine n3

2010    
Prologue to Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks, CCCA and Plug-In ICA
Interview with Ian Wallace, Abstract Paintings: The Economy of the Image, Power Plant
“Architecture as Language,” One Hour Empire, n3
“Searching for Dan Graham,” Canadian Art, v27 n1
Forty-four Ways to Write, instructional booklet, OCAD University

2009     
Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide, an Art Metropole book

2007     
“Marla Hlady,” Border Crossings n101

2001     
“Uttered Nonsense: Jaap Blonk.” Musicworks Magazine #79

2000     
“No Ulterior Motives: Wrist Error.” Musicworks Magazine #77
 
As publisher:
2004     
Jokes of Toronto by Ryan Driver, an Off Cut Press book

2003     
Very Short Stories, various authors, an Off Cut Press book