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A taxonomy for using AI in education

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Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. In other courses, I restrict the use of generative AI tools to particular uses for specific assignments.

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

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Your pursuit of this kind of assignment reminds me of an interview I did for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Ken Bain , author of "What the Best College Teachers Do." The concerns you have about assessing creative work seem to reflect an important (I would even say necessary) ethic you are attempting to live up to in your teaching.

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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

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As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. And whatever career they pursue, “they’re going to be under stress and pressure a lot and we want them to make ethical decisions.

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Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver

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Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? Training lags behind uptake Despite increasingly embracing AI, only 31 percent of teachers claim to have received training or substantial guidance from their school, with many respondents hoping to receive instruction on how to deploy the technology effectively and ethically.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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Instead of reserving them for high-stakes assessments like final exams, some professors now use these tools for routine work like weekly quizzes. Some departments have made tests take-home or open-note, and some have scrapped tests entirely in favor of essays, projects and other assignments that can be done over time. million exams.

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If Smart Glasses Are Coming, What Will That Mean for Classrooms?

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Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) This year in Tokyo, for instance, an 18-year-old allegedly used smart glasses to try to cheat on a university entrance exam. One commenter even suggested just giving up on doing tests and assignments and trying to find new ways of assessing student knowledge. “I

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

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It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. If you assign students a term paper and they have to manage that all the way to completion, you're teaching them work skills. Most of us in higher education don't [appreciate that].