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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Is it time for a check-in with your students? Are you wondering how your students are feeling about your class, its climate, your teaching practices, and their learning? Using a well-crafted mid-semester survey can help you answer some of these questions. Mid-semester surveys are a great way for students to tell you what is working… Read more »
So you’ve heard some buzz about generative AI: maybe you’re worried about student academic misconduct in your course, or maybe you are wondering how you would ever get started learning a new technology with all the demands you already have on your time. Never fear! There are easy ways to get started if you have… Read more »