Trust publishes essay on ChatGPT in Faculty Focus

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Associate Professor Torrey Trust continues to publish relevant pieces about the intersection of AI-generative writing tools, like ChatGPT, and education. She recently published a two-part essay in Faculty Focus that explores the idea of AI-driven cheating. Some of her insights for educators include:

1. Banning AI chatbots can exacerbate the digital divide.
2. Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience.
3. AI text detectors are not meant to be used to catch students cheating.
4. Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential.
5. Students need opportunities to learn with and about AI.
6. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI.

In part two of the essay, Trust makes the case that academic assignments can be redesigned to mitigate the possibility of students using AI to cheat. She articulates the TRUST model for redesigning assignments, which emphasizes:

• Transparency
• Real World Applications
• Universal Design for Learning
• Social Knowledge Construction
• Trial and Error

Check out part 1 here.

Check out part 2 here.