Nobody has AI in humanities teaching and research fully figured out. The AI Sketchbook is how we share what we’re learning—and invite others to do the same.
The AI Sketchbook is Amaranth’s running record of real experiments with AI in teaching and research. Not best practices. Not polished success stories. Not step-by-step tutorials. Just honest accounts of what was tried, what the AI produced, what worked, what didn’t, and what questions it raised—written close to the experience, while the surprises are still fresh.
Teaching sketches document assignments and classroom setups where AI becomes a thinking partner as well as an object of critical inquiry—where students learn something about how knowledge gets made, evaluated, and trusted, not just how to produce text faster.
Research sketches document AI-assisted research in practice: what it actually took to explore patterns across a document collection, make an oral history archive searchable, build an interactive map from archival data, or compare images at scale. These are process notes—the decisions made, the surprises encountered, the limitations hit—not finished arguments.
The sketchbook gets better when more people add to it. If you’ve tried something with AI in a class or research project at UNM, we hope you’ll consider sharing your experience. These are sketches, not polished tutorials. Visit the sketchbook for contribution instructions, or reach out at amaranth@unm.edu.