Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Embrace the Use of AI in Student Work - David Kane, Minding the Campus

Faculty can embrace AI, encouraging students to use it in all of their assignments. I recommend this approach. We should no more forbid the use of AI than we do the use of calculators or spell-checkers. (There is a case in K -12 education for teaching the “fundamentals” of unassisted mathematics and spelling. But that argument hardly applies to college students, at least at elite schools.) How can instructors embrace AI? Begin by using AI yourself. How would Grok answer your favorite essay prompt? How accurate are the references suggested by Claude? How good are the theses statements created by ChatGPT? Generative AI is the future of education and scholarship. Use it or be left behind.

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