hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtgHy3Mz5y9LuUhkLcIW9eWN_abGfUIoy8XJxgCW9I8/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtgHy3Mz5y9LuUhkLcIW9eWN_abGfUIoy8XJxgCW9I8/edit?usp=sharing
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https://bsky.app/profile/erinkaylockwood.bsky.social/post/3ld2sesuwpm2h
It forges your attention into something sharp or heavy or beautiful or whatever you need.
Writing demands that you bleed on the page. It demands that you swallow a grenade and then put yourself back together.
Nothing and nobody can do that for you.
Hey, have considered slapping a CC license on this?
I think the approach you've described actually hurts students. The companies hiring from our university are telling us they expect our students to be learning AI skills and how to use them effectively.
Here are some examples of assignments I used:
I am delivering to them the product for which they have paid (receiving education necessary to qualify for more gainful employment).
I’m trying to decide if this conversation should end and if I should block you.
College me would've appreciated the "reach out" part, good letter
One thing I am finding a bit of a tell is how condescending in tone the pro-AI replies are.
https://bsky.app/profile/nhold.bsky.social/post/3ld4s7pfugs2h
1. Get AI to write a 500 words blog on topic x
2. Watch a 10min video on ethics and AI (produced by Uni - compulsory)
3. Write your own 1000 words blogpost on the same topic x
4. Write a 500 words critique of the AI post - strengths/weaknesses, ethical, etc.
To use AI as a writing tool, students need to have advanced writing/researching skills.
AI + those skills = students fast-track and improve their writing process (rather than not writing at all).
I try to give my students work that forces them to do the thinking regardless of whether they use AI. On the rare occasion when I receive generic palaver that seems likely to have come from AI, it gets called out for revision. In the end, it's more work.
If I was a teacher I'd make the same rule. Hiding it would be cheating, complying with disclosure tells me what you've learned
I think it becomes a problem for *other students* when AI assisted essays become better than handwritten ones
Exactly correct!
Of course the goal is that in the end they can write a good text.
The kicker to me is point 5 which boarders on gaslighting.
Often one thinks one understands something until one tries to put it in writing.
In the future, we may have more of coherent, great writing than ever. But we will have lost a skill that I think is very regrettable to lose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZpbzd1whSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZpbzd1whSs
https://bsky.app/profile/nhold.bsky.social/post/3ld4s7pfugs2h
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GeFSDnanBh-g_jztCXcuv1W1MOQwzesvYtIHaNfKG4w/edit
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922
Thanks for sharing it