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In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better?

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...
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Delaware professor transforms writing class by teaching students to use AI as the technology reshapes the workforce

A University of Delaware English professor, Matt Kinservik, integrated AI into the classroom by having students generate an essay with a chatbot. In one session, students gathered to share the ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Designing Assignments with AI in Mind

Generative AI is reshaping how students read, write, problem-solve, and generate ideas across disciplines. Some faculty try to “AI-proof” assignments, while other faculty design with AI in mind: ...

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the ...

Colleges ban generative AI in writing classes. My classmates use it anyway.

One BU student, who wished to remain anonymous, says she used AI for writing in general education classes, which she didn’t ...
The Conversation

We run writing workshops at a South African university: what we’ve learnt about how students are using AI, and how to help them

Much is being said about the wonders of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it is the new frontier. And while it provides amazing possibilities in fields like medicine, academics are debating its ...
Altoona Mirror

Cornell University instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI writing

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each ...