I got the best teaching evals of my career for a large course last semester— along with three teaching awards— after rebuilding my intro class around in-class handwritten essays. I simply do not believe that this is unsolvable or that students don't care about actually learning to do their work.
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In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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And: how many students?
Mwf or tth?
Mostly non majors?
How much reading for in class exercise?
How long in time and page length for each exercise?
How many per semester?
Other assessments? Finals, for ex?
6-ish quizzes per semester?
TAs?
With follow-up assignments to edit and resubmit for a separate grade
Plagiarism aside, students need strategies for on the spot writing
... hell, my mom was a grad student in English in the 30s and SHE had to deal with the frat back files
College? Sure. Maybe. A gen ed HS class? Um.
It's lovely in theory, but as we know, in theory there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
why this didn’t work. 30 minute lectures?!
When we all know better.
https://bsky.app/profile/jacobtlevy.bsky.social/post/3loluejfma22u
But that said, yes, I blame any student who cheats, and part of providing that assurance to those who don't is trying to catch and punish those who do.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4cj4saqrmjb1oquwvm7m3/POLI-231-2024-2.2.pdf?rlkey=z6f9fyir2sn9c4nezlyiuhk18&dl=0
Some other stuff too, about how I wrote question prompts.
It actually worked entirely smoothly.
However, as someone who works extensively with accessibility accommodations, how did you accommodate students with accessibility needs?
My best (and most stimulating/challenging) science classes were all open book and in-class writing heavy—even virology. When I went on to teach it that way the effort was way higher but more fun.
But it also pointed to needing to help students learn how to think/process and not just come up with the right answer.
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Just to see if THEY can understand and write.
Whenever I see an op-ed with a college prof saying they don't know what to do, I roll my eyes. GO LOW TECH, YA FOOL!
I've been happy to be without blue books in my career up until now, but now it's time to bring them back.
It seems like professors knew we couldn’t edit our thoughts in blue books and accounted for that in grading.
But, I was better at spontaneous coherent thought before the ability to edit everything.
It's not true anymore, and...
https://bsky.app/profile/tuomaspernu.bsky.social/post/3lolkib73ec2n
Our accommodations office does an excellent job of providing alternative arrangements as needed.
Monitored by professors as part of "office hours."
I heard Donald Trump was a good cheater in school. I guess that’s where he learned about cheating the system.
I provide GenAI tools to the programmers who work for me, but I first need to see that they know their stuff (without using GenAI).
I wonder if it depends on *how* they use the tools.
I have one team that uses them only for suggestions, and they report better productivity. Another team uses them to generate the actual code, and they report that the tools are too unreliable.
https://bsky.app/profile/poisonivy47.bsky.social/post/3lnxxwkbun22s
I'm in my fifties and have two college age kids. They want to learn, and they do.
To say today's environment is challenging is an understatement.
But its a LOT of them. I teach in a large public cyber and its all over the place. We can either enforce complete academic integrity, or the population will shift to somewhere that doesn't.
Its a multi-layered issue.
As in, does every kid need to pass Algebra?
You provided your students with the means to do + affirmation.
Experiential learning is powerful when carefully crafted.
A true life lesson.
If you don't know your shit, it shows
Students felt they really earned their grades.
Professors and universities will have to address how to meet ADA mandated reasonable accommodations within this new world of AI.
While the liberal seminaries were quick /2
#DisabilityRights #disabilities #advocacy
But also, if I was a student I'd be glad knowing I'm actually learning. (But, admittedly, I'm a nerd. I went BACK to school after years away)
Definately stealing this for when I teach, though.
I had to involve the denomination and litigate to
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But yeah, like you said, it takes more time and effort. Blerg.
A hockey player offered me $50 to write a term paper for him in 1984.
After that, they write a paper. They are encouraged to use gpt at that point. It improves on great bases.
I hate writing essays by hand. Not only because I have a tremor in my hand that makes it hard to write but because I don't write essays from intro to concl.
However, I don't have a better suggestion.
That prof was a self-professed Luddite. He even confessed that it took him an hour to plug in a laptop to show us a video. Amazing prof though.
https://kadavy.net/distraction-free-writing-devices/
Distribute at the start of exams, collect them after.