Disability Concerns for Our Collective Futures    

Earlier this year, I was interviewed by a reporter about large language models (LLMs, like ChatGPT) and disability. I talked about the many concerns ​the disability community might have about LLMs not providing very good information, and about how biases against disabled people will be repeated and amplified in what LLMs spit out.

From Content to Ideas: Helping Students Craft Their Voice in Writing Technical Documents During the Age of Generative AI

Dr. Laura Gonzales teaches technical communication at the University of Florida. In academia, many of the conversations about generative AI focus on surveillance and cheating. If students can have AI generate content for them, how can teachers assess students’ work? In the introductory technical communication course, many traditional assignments focus on teaching students to generate content—the …

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Advancing Equity through Teaching with Artificial Intelligence

In this age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (often abbreviated GenAI or, simply, AI), many educators are understandably apprehensive about students’ illicit use of these tools and the possible negative impacts on students' critical thinking and authentic learning. I frequently hear from dedicated instructors who worry about how to ban or detect their students’ use of AI. While I empathize with and validate these concerns, I’ve concluded that ultimately this is not a productive way to spend our intellectual energy. Instead, I propose that we reframe the opportunity in front of us: we can help our students learn the ethical and responsible use of AI. In doing so, we are advancing equity in teaching, learning, and society more broadly. 

Worried about AI in the Classroom? Try Process-Oriented Pedagogy 

If you’re like most faculty, you’re worried about AI—specifically, how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Bing Chat will affect your students’ learning. For example, one colleague said she was concerned that “students will lose their unique voices.” Another added: “I want to hear their original thoughts. I want them to be …

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Beating ChatGPT with ChatGPT: Using AI Technology to Create Authentic Assignments 

David Woodring, PhD, is a criminologist/medical sociologist who currently serves as an adjunct instructor for Southern New Hampshire University, Eastern Gateway Community College, and Northwest Arkansas Community College, guiding students across a variety of subjects from cultural awareness in online learning to introductory sociology and social problems. Dr. Woodring also serves as a consultant for …

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Responding to the ChatGPT Moment with Reflection, Emotion, and Process 

Jessica Enoch is Professor of English and Director of the Academic Writing Program at the University of Maryland. The program—which she has directed for twelve years—has more than sixty instructors teaching more than 2,000 students each semester. In 2019, the Conference on College Composition and Communication recognized Jess's writing program with the Writing Program Certificate …

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ChatGPT Has Mastered the Principles of Economics. Now What?

Dirk Mateer is a professor of instruction at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Economics in the Movies, Essentials of Economics, and Principles of Economics. Dirk has been featured in the "Great Teachers in Economics" series and he was also the inaugural winner of the Economic Communicator Contest. While he was at …

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