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Learn How a UChicago Creative Writing Instructor Uses Annotation to Help Students Read Like Writers
“A reading list is both the heart that animates a course of study and the skeleton on which the course is built.” - William Germano and Kit Nicholls, Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything While students engaging deeply with assigned...
Promote AI-Discerning Students in the New Academic Year, Pt 6: Making the Transaction More Conscious
"Eventually, surveillance capitalists discovered that the most-predictive behavioral data come from intervening in the state of play in order to nudge, coax, tune, and herd behavior toward profitable outcomes. Competitive pressures produced this shift, in which...
Building Classroom Trust with Technology: Create an Honor Contract to Support Academic Honesty
Introduction: Two Approaches to Academic Honesty At the University of Chicago, each incoming first-year student receives a copy of Charles Lipson’s book Doing Honest Work in College. Much more than a symbolic gift, this is a reminder that academic honesty is vital if...