This post was written by Lisa Kurz from the CITL and Eric Metzler from the Kelley School of Business. While your syllabus might be your first point of contact with your students at the beginning of a semester, the first day of class is also critical. That’s when students form their first impressions of the… Read more »
Teaching Strategies
Generative AI in the Classroom: Policies (Primer Part 6)
You’re heard some buzz about generative AI (genAI), and you’ve learned to mitigate some of the concerns. Students will be tempted to use generative AI on assignments that are too high stakes or too low stakes, so our goal as instructors should be to be transparent and demonstrate to our students why the assessments we… Read more »
Welcoming your students and setting them up for success
Welcome back to another school year! We hope you feel refreshed from the summer and are ready to welcome your new colleagues and our new students to campus. This post will focus on ways to welcome your students to class. It is the first in a series aimed at helping you start your semester on… Read more »
Memory Matrices: A Game-Changing Tool for Enhancing Retention
Introduction As the spring semester draws to a close, congratulations are in order! Hooray – you made it! You’ve reached the finish line, and it’s time to celebrate your accomplishments. Take a well-deserved break, catch up on some rest, and indulge in some leisure reading. But even as you recharge, it’s never too early to… Read more »
Generative AI in the Classroom: In-class Activities (Primer Part 3)
So you’ve started using generative AI, decided to move forward with incorporating generative AI into your classroom, and you have some ideas for assignment designs. But you’re still wondering about how to get started. Try a low stakes in-class activity to get started getting feedback from your students. Again, the research from Stanford on generative… Read more »
Using Social Annotation to Fact-Check Generative AI
As has now been widely discussed, generative AI is a productivity tool that can be used in various ways in our classrooms with a wide range of success and failure. Generative AI programs can be quite effective at various repetitive tasks or work such as summarizing, but can also “hallucinate”—that is, provide incorrect or misleading… Read more »