This is a wonderful account of how to engage with students about their writing process post-ChatGPT, right down to the acknowledgment at the end.
I struggled with pre-ChatGPT forms of academic dishonesty, including a case where I think someone engaged in contract cheating, all the way down to having paid for three rough drafts as well as a final paper.
I love that your initial comment starts the discussion without assuming anything inappropriate has happened. I wish I had started the conversation with the suspected contract cheater similarly.
I really appreciated your thoughtful and honest account of teaching in a world where AI is ubiquitous and students inevitably tempted to use it. In higher ed, I think we desperately need to figure out how to work with this technology instead of against it, as I uncomfortable and unsettling as that might be. Thanks for sharing these very useful examples and ideas for engaging students and meeting them where they are!
This is a wonderful account of how to engage with students about their writing process post-ChatGPT, right down to the acknowledgment at the end.
I struggled with pre-ChatGPT forms of academic dishonesty, including a case where I think someone engaged in contract cheating, all the way down to having paid for three rough drafts as well as a final paper.
I love that your initial comment starts the discussion without assuming anything inappropriate has happened. I wish I had started the conversation with the suspected contract cheater similarly.
I wish I had always done so, too. I think the assumption of cheating sets up for a difficult conversation from the start. Lessons learned!
Genuinely appreciative of the openness of this—the generosity it affords to others walking parallel paths right now? Invaluable.
I really appreciated your thoughtful and honest account of teaching in a world where AI is ubiquitous and students inevitably tempted to use it. In higher ed, I think we desperately need to figure out how to work with this technology instead of against it, as I uncomfortable and unsettling as that might be. Thanks for sharing these very useful examples and ideas for engaging students and meeting them where they are!
I agree. It is unsettling to me, too, but then learning new things can be like that.
Thank you for outlining your journey. The message and approach of the next to last paragraph will be particularly helpful to my students; thank you.
I’m glad you find it helpful!