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...
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...
Promote AI-Discerning Students in the New Academic Year, Pt 5: Understand Tool Adoption to Prioritize Learning
“Empirical evidence supplied by several researchers indicates that a decision to adopt or reject a new idea is often not the terminal stage in the innovation-decision process. …At the confirmation stage the individual (or other decision-making unit) seeks...
Promote AI-Discerning Students in the New Academic Year, Pt 4: Demystifying Experiences to Mitigate AI
“…AI mirrors amplify and normalize our biases, reinforce our most polarizing opinions and most aggressive stances, and boost the visibility of our most uninformed “hot takes:’ In doing so they reflect back to us images of human civic agency so...
Building Classroom Trust with Technology: Set Clear Expectations with an Evolving Syllabus
In building an atmosphere of trust between instructors and students, it is vital to set clear expectations. Research bears this out: a 2025 survey of students carried out by Inside Higher Ed found that 34% of respondents considered “clear, consistent expectations” to...Subscribe by Email
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