Teaching: Teach Students How to Make Informed AI Decisions

My approach to AI in my writing courses is primarily to teach students how to make informed decisions about when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use AI. Part of this involves helping them understand what they do and don’t learn when they use AI. To that end, I include an AI policy statement on every assignment as well as a table that identifies what students learn if they use AI for some tasks vs. what they learn if they don’t use AI. My midterm essay assignment for ENGL 367: Stories of Industrialism provides an example. Because all of this is experimental right now, I would appreciate any feedback (martinr@denison.edu), and feel free to incorporate any of this into your own classes.