Ask Your Students Why They Use AI

When it comes to learning and teaching, AI is not a standalone issue.  It intersects with many of our longstanding topics of discussion and concern at Denison, from helping our students persist through challenging work to figuring out how to best teach and support students who come from a wide variety of high school experiences.  

Ernesto Reyes reflects on how transparent conversations with students about their own AI practices can help us understand the variety of motivations and find ways to address those issues proactively and productively.

He says, for example, “In my experience, it has often been the students who didn’t receive the instruction they needed before college and who gained the least experience with the writing process who turn to AI. They are left feeling unprepared and insecure about their abilities, and this points to a larger problem in which mistakes are still stigmatized and completion (not competence) is often the norm.”

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