Teaching: Experimenting with AI Disclosure

Thursday (11/21/24) from 11:45-1:00, I am hosting a Teaching Matters session entitled “Cultivating Trust, Honesty, and Disclosure in the Age of Gen AI.” It is an opportunity to share our experiences with student-use of AI for our writing assignments and to generate ideas around helping students make better decisions about how and when to use generative AI to complete assignments.

In my class, I am experimenting with AI disclosure. With each writing assignment, students include an AI disclosure, which is a bullet-pointed list of ways in which they used AI on any aspect of the assignment (e. g. topic development, content development, drafting, and revisions). They are also required to include a parenthetical citation (AI) at the end of any sentence that includes AI-generated content. The deal I make with them is that I will not submit an Academic Integrity report for AI use as long as they are honest about it. Their disclosure also creates the opportunity to have a conversation with them about what they are not learning when they use AI to complete aspects of the assignment. I’ll be sharing more about this experiment in the Teaching Matters session, but more importantly, I am interested in hearing about the experiences of others, so we can continue to develop a collective understanding of how to navigate this new pedagogical reality.