<p>Christopher Ostro discusses the AI grief cycle on episode 601 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br /> <div id="" class="one-half first divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Quotes from the episode</h2> <p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20745" src="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:auto/h:auto/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE601-1.png" alt="The fact is there are things we're grieving. Our job has profoundly changed in huge ways in a very short period of time." width="930" height="620" srcset="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE601-1.png 930w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:300/h:200/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE601-1.png 300w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:768/h:512/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE601-1.png 768w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:600/h:400/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE601-1.png 600w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:360/h:240/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE601-1.png 360w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/dpr:2/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE601-1.png 2x" sizes="(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px" /></p> <p>The fact is there are things we&#8217;re grieving. Our job has profoundly changed in huge ways in a very short period of time.<br /> -Christopher Ostro</p> <p>Our traditional assessments suddenly are not working effectively like we used to think that they did.<br /> -Christopher Ostro</p> <p>I want my students to view me as a resource and as someone that they can trust.<br /> -Christopher Ostro</p> <p>When something makes me uncomfortable, I want to lean in and understand it better.<br /> -Christopher Ostro</p> <p></div><div id="" class="one-half divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://vimeo.com/1081921893">AI Grief Cycle Talk for CU, by Christoper Ostro</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O5ZJME5Sg4rsro02n_zP8odpbZeEOMw019JVgJ7Py-A/edit?slide=id.p#slide=id.p">Slides for Chris’ AI Grief Cycle Talk</a></li> <li><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lEHRQv8b3DEF9B2MVemoA5F5MHFSjl42">Mosaic Approach Docs from Christopher Ostro</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/philldawson_theres-been-a-huge-response-to-the-swiss-activity-7242305188391182336-2Kgk">Swiss Cheese (or Roumy Cheese) Model for Assessment/Assignments</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/swiss-cheese-analogy-for-covid-19-rumi-cheese-analogy-for-inclusive-education/">Swiss Cheese Analogy for COVID-19 – Rumi Cheese Analogy for Inclusive Education, by Maha Bali</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dstanford_facultydevelopment-ai-edtech-activity-7389605755089362944-98sb">Daniel Stanford’s LinkedIn Post</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.kristenhowerton.com/">Kristen Howerton</a></li> <li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/ai">Bonni’s Go Somewhere AI Resources and Episodes</a></li> <li><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lEHRQv8b3DEF9B2MVemoA5F5MHFSjl42">Chris’ AI Literacy Assignments</a></li> <li><a href="https://goblin.tools/">Goblin.Tools</a></li> <li><a href="https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_6760_e586ab17-b724-4b81-bf00-da74cce578ae&amp;uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F6760%2Ffeed-rss.xml">Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet &#8211; The End of the World as We Know It</a></li> <li><a href="https://adamgrant.substack.com/p/what-ai-companions-are-missing?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true">What AI Companions Are Missing, by Adam Grant</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gsbftZcJyCUKrHGWXhAnh0DdAEiKt7chWfqjURQIO-c/edit?gid=0#gid=0">Chris’ CU AI Reading Group Reading List</a></li> </ul> <p></div></p>