This post is by faculty author Jill Darling In the recent Digital Education Days panel, “Academic Integrity in the Era of AI,” Jennifer Fisch-Ferguson from Mott Community College spoke about generative AI pushing us to… Read More »GenAI and Academic Integrity
I have a little over 15 minutes before my office hours start so I head out of the CASL building to do a quick walk around campus. It’s nearing the middle of September already but… Read More »Beauty in Science: a short reflection on Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
– By 2024 Hub Affiliate Helet Botha, Assistant Professor of Business Policy and Strategy “Attention with effort is all that any case of volition implies. The essential achievement of the will…is to attend to a… Read More »The Tyranny of the Everything Bagel: Teachers’ Responsibility for Student Digital Distraction During Class Time
This post is co-authored between Associate Professor Troy Murphy and Anna Lariviere—Psychology Major, Public Health Minor, and President of the First Generation Student Organization at University of Michigan—Dearborn I don’t remember exactly how I became… Read More »On being a First Generation College Student (. . . and Faculty and Staff)
A model for talking to students about genAI from asynchronous English Literature courses For my second blog post of my Hub Affiliate series “Responding to Generative AI with an Ethics of Care,” I want to… Read More »Conversation as Care: Why Talking to Students About AI is Our Most Essential Task Right Now
Like many other educators, I am not alone in feeling that Generative AI has upended my world. As a literature professor who teaches most of my classes in the online asynchronous format, my entire pedagogy… Read More »Yes, we need an AI policy for our courses. But developing one is just the beginning
In a time of information overload, the flux of input might seem to either dull individuality or motivate it, curb creativity or encourage it. One of the roles of teachers in the classroom is to… Read More »Make it Your Own: Creative Projects as Agency in Language and Literature Classes
I teach a variety of writing classes–comp 105 and 106, Intro to Creative Writing, upper-level essay writing–but I haven’t used an official textbook in years. I tend to “curate” syllabi around whole-course themes and/or break… Read More »Open Pedagogies in Writing and Statistics
In 2021, with the help of student collaborators, Ben Wielechowski created the Open Educational Resources (OER) textbook, Introduction to Narrative Journalism. Wielechowski and some of his students are featured in the recent Wolverzine, a campus… Read More »Students as OER Partners
This blog post is a lightly edited transcript of a talk I gave at Bucknell University on efforts to restrict teaching about sexuality and gender. I was invited as part of a panel that included… Read More »LGBTQ+ People and Curricula: What Is at Stake and for Whom?