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How do students FEEL about my new grading policy for the age of GenAI?
Last week, I had my First Year Composition (FYC) students complete an anonymous survey that asked them how they felt about a new assessment strategy I am piloting this semester. The policy, which I detail in a previous post, is designed to resist using plagiarism...
The New Yorker visits the academic world of digital composing and rhetoric
October’s first issue of the New Yorker includes an article exploring what it’s like to compose with GenAI. While I wasn’t surprised to find this topic in the pages of the New Yorker, I couldn’t believe that author Cal Newport draws on ideas and voices from the...
What to do with student work that uses GenAI irresponsibly?
Even though many of my UAB colleagues and I distrust and choose not to use GenAI detection software, we still want our students to take on the challenge of learning, to produce work that represents exactly where they are in their educational journey, and to...
Ending the gen-AI detection war: Turning off Turnitin’s AI-Checker
For many, the immediate response to ChatGPT’s 2022 rollout was to spend money and time developing plagiarism checkers to detect the presence of GenAI writing. Now, at the start of the 2024 fall semester, any simple Google search yields countless articles with titles...
GenAI and the Workplace: Interviewing UAB Alumni Haley Wells
This summer, I interviewed Alabama Holocaust Education Center’s (AHEC) Program Manager, Haley Wells, to discuss the role GenAI plays in her current work. Wells is a recent graduate of UAB’s accelerated master’s program where she completed a Master’s degree in History...
