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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. He told me how quick and convenient it is. References Balch, D.

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Thinking Outside the Music Box: Using Digital Tools to Teach Music and More

Edsurge

Students learn to think beyond the parameters of passing an exam. They open up their brains to deeper critical thinking. This year, students were assigned states and asked to write an eight-measure melody corresponding to their assigned states. Music unleashes creative powers in the classroom.

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. He told me how quick and convenient it is. References Balch, D.

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Taking Grades (Stress) Out of Learning 

Faculty Focus

Instead, I assess my students learning through lesson plans, presentations, and projectsassignments that require logical reasoning, creativity, and critical thinking. To accompany this teaching philosophy, I adopt ungrading 2 in all my courses. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

Edsurge

It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. They write brief papers and give short oral reports, building skills and stamina they eventually will need to complete and present a capstone research project, their final assignment before they graduate. The course is called Transformations.

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