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5 Steps to Update Assignments to Foster Critical Thinking and Authentic Learning in an AI Age

Faculty Focus

Step 1: Take a critical look at your current syllabus. As she talked about how simple it was to add a line at the end of the assignment such as, “ChatGPT generated the outline for this essay,” the anxiety that had previously clouded her expression disappeared. Some of these may be updateable, but others may just need to go.

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5 Steps to Update Assignments to Foster Critical Thinking and Authentic Learning in an AI Age

Faculty Focus

Step 1: Take a critical look at your current syllabus. As she talked about how simple it was to add a line at the end of the assignment such as, “ChatGPT generated the outline for this essay,” the anxiety that had previously clouded her expression disappeared. Some of these may be updateable, but others may just need to go.

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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

Cal Matters

Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it. The Turnitin similarity score of a student essay in one of Adam Kaiserman’s classes at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita on May 6, 2025.

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Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

Cult of Pedagogy

Regardless of your schools academic integrity policy, consider how a statement like the one below in your syllabus (Frontier, 2025) could clarify the importance of integrity as the basis for your partnership to effectively teach and learn. Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student essays. link] Fleckenstein, J.,

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Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey

Edsurge

The Syllabus Gets a Facelift. If we think about learning as a journey that gets compartmentalized in formal education, then the first experience for middle and high school students is often the syllabus. In many ways, the traditional syllabus places restrictions on when, what and how students will learn.

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The case for ChatGPT as the ultimate educator’s toolkit

eSchool News

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Should Colleges Rethink Final Exams in the COVID Era? Some Profs Try 'Epic Finales'

Edsurge

In her syllabus written before the pandemic, she had planned a final exam with a series of physics problems for students to work out. That was the case with Stephanie Bailey, an assistant professor at Chapman University who was teaching an introductory physics course in the spring covering concepts like electricity and magnetism.

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