A few months ago, I asked a room full of faculty a simple question: If AI can complete the assignment, what exactly are students learning by completing it? The room got quiet. Not because the answer was obvious, but because many of us are wrestling with the same tension.
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Who Matters? Expanding the Moral Circle with Jeff Sebo
Does AI deserve the same rights as human beings? Author Jeff Sebo discusses how our future relationship with AI can be understood through a deeper look into ethical and moral theory, human exceptionalism, and our relationship with animals. Learn how his students handle these topics with remarkable generosity and open-mindedness.
From Plato’s “Literacy Crisis” to Generative AI: What Writing Studies Can Teach Us Right Now
AI refusal and boundary-setting have value because they clarify what we refuse to lose. At the same time, we can also treat this “technology” as a resource, one that can be leveraged to consolidate humanistic learning and values rather than replace them.
Fewer Rules, Better Students: High-Discretion Teaching
The move from high- to low-discretion not only standardizes education, but also standardizes achievement in education in a truly unfortunate way. Instructors in high-discretion fields should embrace that feature, exercising high discretion with respect to assignments, curriculum, and grading standards.
Behind the Scenes: Norton’s Approach to AI in Higher Ed
At Norton, we've been fielding a lot of questions and seeing a lot of buzz about GenAI in higher education. So, we're pulling back the curtain on Norton's approach to meeting the challenges and opportunities of AI through this interview.
“Digital Detox”: Using Norton Critical Editions To Promote Critical Thinking
The Norton Learning Blog has recently featured several posts that offer suggestions for generating greater classroom success by integrating ChatGPT and similar machine-learning-applications. (I find the latter a more accurate—and less anthropomorphizing—term than AI.) However, this particular post goes out to all who—for pedagogical, or numerous other reasons—search for the grail of LLM-free spaces.
Making More Space for Student Attitudes about AI
Generative AI is everywhere, even in places we’d least expect it to be. Read how English professor, Traynor Hansen, served himself a taste of his own medicine to better teach his students new strategies of academic inquiry against a backdrop of AI.
Bringing a Gift to the AI Party: Teaching Ethical AI Use in First-Year Composition
What role can AI play in your classroom? Instructor and author Max Everhart emphasizes the importance of bringing meaningful work to the table when working with AI. Learn how to AI can support your students while honoring their own voice and critical thinking.
AI: An Unexpected Cure for Faculty Burnout
The fear of technology replacing the human element in education is real. I’ve thought about these concerns: Will AI encourage laziness? What about bias? What if it makes mistakes? But I’ve found a way to use AI that isn’t replacing me as an educator; it’s supporting me. And in a time when faculty burnout is rampant, that support makes all the difference.
Using Famous Figure Chatbots to Make Challenging Ideas Accessible: Q&A with Martin Puchner
I started to play around with the technology and was amazed how relatively easy and interesting it was. It made me realize that much of what had driven my work—how to make the past speak to the present, how to read ancient texts, and what it meant that the words of long-dead authors were available to us in the present—was relevant for interacting with chatbots.