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Like many of us, I spent a lot of time over the summer reading and thinking about generative AI chatbots and what they might mean for my teaching, especially since most of my courses involve a lot of writing. Could ChatGPT answer my prompts? Did my assignments encourage students to put in thought and effort, or was I making it easy for them to farm out their work to a bot? My thinking is still evolving and will continue to do so as AI bots evolve. But in my W101 (First-Year Writing Workshop) this semester, I am taking two approaches. First, I reframed language in my syllabus and my prompts to emphasize that I want to hear students’ own thoughts and voices, and that I care more about hearing their ideas than I do about whether their writing sounds “smart” enough. Second, I want my students to make informed choices about whether and how to use AI. To that end, I put together this handout, which you’re welcome to use and adapt. |