Instructors: Students are often clueless about what to wear to the office. And in all fairness, sometimes it can be a difficult call. Before you discuss office wear in your classroom, put students into groups and have them discuss this fun quiz. It’s a great way to start a lively conversation. Download PDFs for the exercise and key at the end of the post.
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Consider the source. The time-honored phrase means that readers must always think critically about the reliability, knowledge, biases, and credibility of a source. So what does it say about us if we hand over our writing to an AI bot?
New York Times op-ed writer Bret Stephens is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who made his opposition to using AI as a writing tool known in a recent piece, “I’m Begging You: Never Write With AI.”
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For years evaluating students relied on the point system. The higher the number of points, the higher the grade. Easy-peasy.
Except, perhaps not. In the AI age, the time-honored assessment method is looking ragged around the edges and spawns many questions besides. How much should we weigh homework, participation, attendance, quizzes, or specific writing assignments? Do we even bother evaluating homework because so many students complete it using AI? How do we explain why a student received a B+ and not an A-? Do students leave our classes really having learned what we want them to have learned?
Given these issues, many instructors are looking for a better way to evaluate student work. In this post we’ll provide an overview of several methods instructors have tried to make grades more meaningful.
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