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Friday, January 17, 2025

January 17, 2025: Spring Semester Previews: The Short Story Online

[Another Spring semester is upon us, and with it my annual Spring semester previews. This time I’ll focus on one skill I’m excited to be teaching as part of each of these courses. Please share what you’ve got going on this semester and year as well!]

I said most of what I’d want to say about generative AI, in the classroom and everywhere else, in this year in review post on the subject a few weeks back. But since my online-only courses have been the place where I’ve encountered the use of ChatGPT most consistently, I’ll add this: I’m not looking, as I never have looked and never will look, to be a cop in the classroom. What I am looking to do, now more than ever, is to have all the conversations, including the toughest ones. So despite not meeting this class face-to-face, I’m still going to try to have a conversation with them at the start of the semester on why using AI for classwork isn’t just a potentially dangerous thing to do for their own futures, but also will lead to both mediocre work and, y’know, the further destruction of our planet. The skill of resisting these understandably tempting technological tools is no easy task in January 2025, but I skill I look forward to helping the students who are up for the challenge to practice.

Scholarly update this weekend,

Ben

PS. What’s on your radar?


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