The 2023-2024 academic year will be the first full year where students have unlimited access to ChatGPT and other LLMs.
While it's easy to short-circuit AI use in the classroom or by requiring that they show their work on written assignments, it's harder to prevent its use, or use it effectively, in online assignments.
So I want to know: what's your best idea for an ONLINE assignment that either:
(1) teaches them to use it effectively, or
(2) asks them for something they can't easily produce with an LLM?
I'll go first, with one example of each.
First, I ask them to have AI write a paragraph about a topic we studied in the module, and then have them fact-check each sentence with the assigned class readings.
Second, since the pandemic I've added journaling to all my classes. I ask students to reflect on the content of that module using examples from their lives, their thoughts, or their lived experience. It's easy to tell if their response isn't personalized, meaning that they used AI to write it (not just improve it, which I am fine with).
What do YOU suggest?
@kathhayhoe Not directly related to your query about LLMs, but I have concern about journaling related to life experiences. Isn't this grading them on what their parents have been able to provide them with, experience wise, up to this point? Part of the point of college is to open eyes to wider experiences, but that is a process over time.
