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New AI Tools Are Promoted As Study Aids for Students. Are They Doing More Harm Than Good?

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Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, says he is worried that students are lured by the time-saving promises of these tools and may not realize that using them can mean skipping the actual work it takes to internalize and remember the material.

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

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I've thought about opening it up widely—write a historical novelette (using primary sources, of course), create a sculpture, write a song—but, again, I have no idea how to grade something like that, considering the wide range of talent that my students likely will have.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large.

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What Homeschooling During COVID-19 Taught Me About My College Teaching

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Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. I taught a business ethics course this semester in which I had honed the learning outcomes down into the most essential ones. This less-is-more approach has been cascading into my teaching more in recent years.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large.

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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

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, those who encourage students to use AI freely in their writing processes (open-ocean swimmers), and, finally, those who want to embrace AI with guardrails (learning to surf). Open-ocean swimmers have argued that their strategy might equalize the playing field for students or mimic workplace writing processes. What can be done?

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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

Faculty Focus

, those who encourage students to use AI freely in their writing processes (open-ocean swimmers), and, finally, those who want to embrace AI with guardrails (learning to surf). Open-ocean swimmers have argued that their strategy might equalize the playing field for students or mimic workplace writing processes. What can be done?

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