As generative AI (GenAI) continues to reshape higher education, you—as an IU instructor—are uniquely positioned to lead your students through a transformative experience. While we can all agree having generative AI thrust unknowingly upon us is a less than ideal situation, whether you’re now exploring AI’s potential to improve student learning outcomes, designing new assessments,… Read more »
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Is over-reliance on GenAI undermining your course goals? Consider a scaffolded in-class writing assignment with Canvas and LockDown Browser
This post was written by John Robison, Lecturer in Philosophy. A longer version of this post first appeared in the philosophy blog, the Daily Nous. A successful humanities course helps students cultivate critical, personally enriching, and widely applicable skills, and it immerses them in the exploration of perspectives, ideas, and modes of thought that can illuminate, challenge,… Read more »
Writing In Class to Reduce Students’ Stress and Overreliance on AI
When I think of the scads of papers I wrote as an undergrad, I recall hunkering down in my dorm room, alone with my laptop and books. Only my Shakespeare professor took a different approach: she had us write (by hand, in blue books) timed essay exams instead of take-home paper assignments. Although these essays,… Read more »
Transparent Teaching with AI: Enhancing Metacognition
Are your assignments transparent about how you would like students to use generative AI? Transparency is a highly research-supported teaching and learning concept that demonstrates that explaining why you do what you do in the classroom improves learning outcomes and increases equity. (To use AI to ease the burden of the labor of making the… Read more »
Generative AI in the Classroom: Critical Thinking through AI (Primer Part 8)
I did a consultation recently where an instructor asked me some great questions about how to implement using generative AI in the classroom, so I thought I would share some of the key points of that discussion here: There’s a lot of hype about what AI can and cannot do flying around the interwebs, and… Read more »
Generative AI in the Classroom: Large Enrollment Courses (Primer Part 7)
There are lots of ways to use generative AI to improve student assessment, but what about using it to make your life easier as an instructor? If we think about generative AI as an assistant, what kinds of tasks could generative AI help you finish them more effectively (both improving the quality of your work… Read more »