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Stephen Goforth
“What is to stop someone from sitting in the back of a classroom and whispering into their glasses to say, ‘Hey, I need help with solving this problem,’” said Luke Hobson, an assistant director of instructional design at MIT. “Every time I see someone saying, ‘Blue books are the future,’ I’m like, ‘So are we going to ban students from wearing glasses?’” -Inside Higher Ed
You Can’t AI-Proof the Classroom, Experts Say. Get Creative Instead. – Inside Higher Ed
Teachers are using software to see if students used AI. What happens when it's wrong? – NPR
Professors are turning to this old-school method to stop AI use on exams – Washington Post
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse – New York Times
OpenAI Is Giving Teachers Their Own ChatGPT, Free Through 2027 - Newsweek
How AI Is Changing Higher Education – Chronicle of Higher Ed
AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking – The Conversation
Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? – Nature
Is AI dulling our minds? Experts weigh in on whether tech poses threat to critical thinking, pointing to cautionary tales in use of other cognitive labor tools – The Harvard Gazette
Are we teaching students AI competence or dependence? - London School of Economics
AI Has Joined the Faculty - Chronicle of Higher Ed
To adopt or to ban? Student perceptions and use of generative AI in higher education – Nature
What are the clues that ChatGPT wrote something? - Washington Post
Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize. - New York Times
Teaching Students to Think Critically About AI – Harvard Graduate School of Education
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea – Rest of World
More college students are using AI for class. Their professors aren't far behind – NPR
From Yale to MIT to UCLA: The AI policies of the nation's biggest colleges – Mashable
A researcher’s view on using AI to become a better writer – Hechinger Report
I Want My Students’ Effort, Not AI’s Shortcut to Perfect Writing – Edsurge
AI-resistant strategies - Chronicle of Higher Ed
What’s working, not on front lines of AI in classroom - The Harvard Gazette
AI Tutors Are Now Common in Early Reading Instruction. Do They Actually Work? – Edweek
Teaching: How to respond when students don’t want to work with AI - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026. - Forbes
Experts suggest that computer science degree requirements should move away from coding and align with the expectations of a liberal arts degree—critical thinking and communication skills, along with computational thinking and AI literacy. The new CS coursework would include basic principles of computing and AI, along with hands-on experience in designing software using new AI tools. AI tools can help with the building of prototype programs, check for coding errors and serve as a digital tutor.
Computational thinking involves breaking down problems into smaller tasks, developing step-by-step solutions and using data to reach evidence-based conclusions. AI literacy is an understanding — at varying depths for students at different levels — of how AI works, how to use it responsibly and how it is affecting society. Nurturing informed skepticism should be a goal.
Read more at the NYT: How Do You Teach Computer Science in the AI Era?
Will AI Choke Off the Supply of Knowledge? - Wall Street Journal
Universities could bolster democracy by fostering students’ AI literacy – The Conversation
How Are Instructors Talking About AI in Their Syllabi? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
The AI cheating panic is missing the point - The Washington Post
An AI Tool Says It Can Predict Students’ Grades on Assignments. Instructors Are Skeptical. - Chronicle of Higher Ed
AI-driven private schools are popping up around the U.S., from North Carolina to Florida – Axios
How to Use AI in Online Courses and Teach Your Students to Use It Too – Faculty Focus
The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started – The Atlantic
AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser - Elroy
These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I. – New York Times
Faculty Latest Targets of Big Tech’s AI-ification of Higher Ed – Inside Higher Ed
ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems – Wired
What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom - LitHub
I'm a college writing professor. How I think students should use AI this fall – Mashable
ChatGPT’s new Study Mode is designed to help you learn, not just give answers – Arstechnica
The Biggest Signs That AI Wrote a Paper, According to a Professor - Gizomodo
In California, Colleges Pay a Steep Price for Faulty AI Detectors – Undark
ChatGPT's new study mode won't give you the answers - Axios
What the panic about kids using AI to cheat gets wrong - Vox
AI Has Done Far More Harm Than Good in My Classroom - Education Week
How teachers say they're embracing AI in the classroom – ABC News
In training educators to use AI, we must not outsource the foundational work of teaching - Chalkbeat
I got an AI to impersonate me and teach me my own course – here’s what I learned about the future of education - The Conversation
“In facilitating learning, AI gets us more quickly to the important work (examples might include providing suggestions for how to start researching a topic or possible ways to phrase something). In replacing learning, AI does the important work for us (such as answering exam questions). To these I would add a third category: supplementing learning, the murky middle where AI is used alongside or incorporated into one’s own work (such as providing supporting data or creating an essay outline). Naming this usually unrecognized middle ground is important, because whether AI is helping or harming in these cases will often depend on the context and goals. Managing appropriate forms of AI use will likely be one of our society’s major challenges going forward, in education and elsewhere.” -Chronicle of Higher Ed
AI use by students is increasing.
The higher the education level, the more likely that students will use AI.
Business, STEM, and social-science majors are more likely to use AI and are less likely to have concerns about using it than humanities majors.
Top uses by students: information or getting explanations (50-70 percent of respondents in the studies cited above); generating ideas or brainstorming (40-50 percent); and writing support, including checking grammar, editing, starting a paper, and drafting an essay (30-50 percent).
86 percent of students who use ChatGPT for assignments say their use was undetected.
A plurality of students think AI will have both positive and negative consequences.
A study of high-school students conducted before and after AI became mainstream found no increase in the percentage of students who cheat.
15-25 percent of students across several studies feel AI should not be allowed at all in education or refuse to use it themselves.
In a survey asking students why they use AI, the strongest agreement was with the statement that AI “will not judge me” followed by anonymity.
Four out of five students think their institutions have not integrated AI sufficiently.
55 percent of students think overreliance on AI in teaching decreases the value received from a course.
89 percent are worried about AI grading.
Students think AI is important, in other words, but not that it should replace professors.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Ed
As one student said to his professor at New York University, in an effort to justify using AI to do his work for him, “You’re asking me to go from point A to point B, why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?” It’s a completely logical argument — as long as you accept the utilitarian vision. The real solution, then, is to be honest about what the humanities are for: You’re in the business of helping students with the cultivation of their character. -Sigal Samuel writing in Vox
Towards responsible AI in education: a systematic review on identifying and mitigating ethical risks – Nature
AI’s giants want to take over the classroom – MIT Tech Review
I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students. – New York Times
Teachers union partners with Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI to launch AI-training academy – CBS News
OpenAI and Microsoft Bankroll New A.I. Training for Teachers – New York Times
Universities are rethinking computer science curriculum in response to AI tools – TechSpot
How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era? - The New York Times
California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? - Cal Matters
How ChatGPT and other AI tools are changing the teaching profession – Associated Press
Does ownership rights over original scholarship extend to the elements of a single course on AI? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting: Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it – The Atlantic
A.I. in the Classroom: A Brave New World? - New York Times
Professors Are Using A.I., Too. Now What? – NPR
How To Stay Ahead Of AI – The Human Skills Universities Must Teach – Forbes
My students think it’s fine to cheat with AI. Maybe they’re onto something. - Vox
Impact of gen AI on students’ learning outcomes: a technology-mediated & motivation-driven approach – Nature
Chatbots in the classroom: how AI is reshaping higher education - Financial Times
Bringing GenAI into the university classroom - Times Higher Ed
I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Report: Faculty Often Missing From University Decisions on AI – Inside Higher Ed
In a humanities education the student herself is the product. She is what’s getting created and recreated by the learning process. This vision of education — as a pursuit that’s supposed to be personally transformative — is what Aristotle proposed back in Ancient Greece. He believed the real goal was not to impart knowledge, but to cultivate the virtues: honesty, justice, courage, and all the other character traits that make for a flourishing life. -Sigal Samuel writing in Vox
California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – Cal Matters
My students think it’s fine to cheat with AI. Maybe they’re onto something. – Vox
Panel with AI experts to review appeal of NTU student penalised for academic misconduct - The Straits Times
How AI Is Helping Students Find the Right College – Wired
Chinese AI firms block features amid high-stakes university entrance exams – Washington Post
6 College Majors That Will Thrive In An AI-Driven Economy – Forbes
For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here – New York Times
AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos – Axios
Here are some guiding ideas to keep in mind as you navigate college in the era of artificial intelligence – Student Guide to AU
A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I. – New York Times
What My Students Had To Say About AI – The Broken Copier
Using ChatGPT, students might pass a course, but with a cost – PhysOrg
How Are Students Using AI? – AI and How We Teach
Students Are Humanizing Their Writing—By Putting It Through AI – Wall Street Journal
Why misuse of generative AI is worse than plagiarism – Springer
Students, early career workers use ChatGPT as a mentor - Axios
How Students Use and Think About Their Use of AI – Daily Nous
How AI Helps Our Students Deepen Their Writing (Yes, Really) – EdWeek
As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI – The Guardian
For a lot of us, our motivation to enter academe was primarily about helping to form students as people. We’re not simply frustrated by trying to police AI use, the labor of having to write up students for academic dishonesty, or the way that reading student work has become a rather nihilistic task. Our frustration is not merely that we don’t care about what AI has to say and therefore get bored grading; it is that we actively miss reading the thoughts of our human students. -Megan Fritts writing in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
"A new study of a dozen A.I.-detection services by researchers at the University of Maryland found that they had erroneously flagged human-written text as A.I.-generated about 6.8 percent of the time, on average. 'At least from our analysis, current detectors are not ready to be used in practice in schools to detect A.I. plagiarism,' said Soheil Feizi, an author of the paper and an associate professor of computer science at Maryland." -New York Times
On campus, we’re in a bizarre interlude: everyone seems intent on pretending that the most significant revolution in the world of thought in the past century isn’t happening. The approach appears to be: “We’ll just tell the kids they can’t use these tools and carry on as before.” This is, simply, madness. And it won’t hold for long. -D. Graham Burnett writing in The New Yorker
The Academic DJ - Justin Cerenzia
The AI Edventure - Jason Gulya
AI x Education - Stanford University
AI and How We Teach Writing - Annette Vee
AI, writing, and pedagogy - Anna Mills
The Biblioracle Recommends - John Warner
The Broken Copier - Marcus Luther
The End(s) of Argument - Mike Caulfield
One Useful Thing - Ethan Mollick
Writing Hacks - Jane Rosenzweig
Your Students Need an AI-Aware Professor - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? – The New Yorker
As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses – The Registrar
How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future – New York Times
Teaching journalism students generative AI: why I switched to an “AI diary” this semester – Online Journalism Blog
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It – New York Times
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College – New York Magazine
AI-Aware Teaching Examples - Annette Vee Blog
I'd rather read the prompt – Clayton Ramsey
Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools – Washington Post
As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond – Voice of San Diego
Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking - Axios
Business schools ease their resistance to AI – Financial Times
A Shortcut or a Level Up? Harvard Faculty Debate Generative AI in Academia – The Crimson
AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty – Faculty Focus
California college professors have mixed views on AI in the classroom – Ed Source
Here's how AI has changed the way Penn faculty grade, teach courses – The Daily Pennsylvanian
Here’s how Carolina faculty use AI – University of North Carolina
Introducing Claude for Education – Anthropic
Teachers Worry About Students Using A.I. But They Love It for Themselves. – New York Times
Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking – Axios
Preparing science educators to use and teach AI in the classroom – National Science Foundation
Educators seek to combat AI challenges in the classroom – The Hill
AI works best in the classroom with professor guidance, researchers found – EdScoop
What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? - Faculty Focus
What's the Future for AI-Free Learning Spaces? - Jason Gulya Blog
What’s Your AI Policy? Communicate your guidelines clearly and talk about them with students - Annette Vee Blog
“I very strongly feel that every student that graduates from any institution of higher education must have at least one core course in AI, or significant exposure to these tools. If we’re not doing that, we are doing a disservice to our students." -Ravi Pendse, chief information officer at the University of Michigan, Inside Higher Ed
“By the end of the first two weeks of the semester, Smith had whittled down the 104 students enrolled in her classes, including those on the waitlist, to just 15. The rest, she’d concluded, were fake students, often referred to as bots. ‘It’s a surreal experience and it’s just heartbreaking,’ Smith said. ‘I’m not teaching, I’m playing a cop now.’” - Voice of San Diego
Last year, I sat in a faculty meeting while a guest lecturer gleefully explained how they had used AI to design their class, craft PowerPoint presentations, and develop exams. At the end of the presentation, a colleague leaned over and asked, “Then what’s our job?” I have thought long and hard about that question. If faculty hope to survive, much less prosper, in the age of AI, they need to come up with a compelling answer to that question: “What’s our job?” -Scott Latham writing in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
Two students in Austria created a program that is attending classes and is treated like any other student. It attends lectures, turns in artwork for assignments, collaborates with classmates and will receive grades on submitted work. ‘Flynn’ is testing the boundaries of artificial intelligence tools, and could, in theory, progress toward a diploma.” - Washington Post
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